With the world becoming truly globalised, with people realising the theory of "Survival of fittest", nowadays people moving to other countries has become a normal phenomenon..There can be either two results of this phenomenon..
either the person travelling from the native country changes himself and gets imbibed in the other country's culture immediately.transforms himself/herself...that's when and why, you get to see Indians returning from foreign countries with their hair styles changed into spiky ones and with ear phones (now IPOD!!) in their ears..
the other lot are the ones who act as their country's cultural ambassadors and spread their country's culture..i witnessed this latter phenomenon when I went to the Downtown in Toronto to get my tickets for my planned trip to Niagara falls (details/blog on the same to follow soon!!)..There was a dance show going on at the Dundas grounds (the Downtown area..)..With no work left, we decide to pass the time by watching the dance show..there were some group of 4-6 students dancing for some hippy numbers..we watched the show for sometime and suddenly to my surprise, the speakers began to bang "Metro Channal munna paru..munna paru..Cable TV pinna paru...pinna paru.." in Tamil in the middle of english numbers..all people..Canadians, Chinese, Americans were moving their hips and were dancing to the tune of the song..
either the person travelling from the native country changes himself and gets imbibed in the other country's culture immediately.transforms himself/herself...that's when and why, you get to see Indians returning from foreign countries with their hair styles changed into spiky ones and with ear phones (now IPOD!!) in their ears..
the other lot are the ones who act as their country's cultural ambassadors and spread their country's culture..i witnessed this latter phenomenon when I went to the Downtown in Toronto to get my tickets for my planned trip to Niagara falls (details/blog on the same to follow soon!!)..There was a dance show going on at the Dundas grounds (the Downtown area..)..With no work left, we decide to pass the time by watching the dance show..there were some group of 4-6 students dancing for some hippy numbers..we watched the show for sometime and suddenly to my surprise, the speakers began to bang "Metro Channal munna paru..munna paru..Cable TV pinna paru...pinna paru.." in Tamil in the middle of english numbers..all people..Canadians, Chinese, Americans were moving their hips and were dancing to the tune of the song..
What makes this happen..If people say that music knows know boundaries and hence people would dance to any number played on the stage..i fail to disagree..., I would attribute this to the culture the Tamils have imbibed in the Canadian society..the dominational cultural change and the culture change, the effect they were able to produce on the other society...
and I was so happy and proud that we have established ourselves 15000miles away from our native..
After all I am also a fanatically Truly Global Tamilian..
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