{"id":23172,"date":"2026-07-10T19:39:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T19:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=23172"},"modified":"2026-07-10T19:39:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T19:39:34","slug":"yes-you-can-be-hindu-and-be-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2026\/07\/10\/yes-you-can-be-hindu-and-be-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, You Can Be Hindu and Be White"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UNITED STATES,  June 5, 2026 (YouTube): In this episode of &#8220;That\u2019s So Hindu,&#8221; Sangeetha Shankar speaks with Hindu American Foundation\u2019s (HAF)  Devala Gupta, Easan Katir, Mat McDermott, and Fred Stella about their journeys into Hinduism. They discuss their personal spiritual practices, how the wider Hindu community has accepted them, and much more. This episode highlights the diversity within the Hindu community and challenges stereotypes about ethnicity and faith.<br><br>Very interesting and often amusing video at source:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lLoMw0GghYE&amp;t=2625s\n\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lLoMw0GghYE&amp;t=2625s<br><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED STATES, June 5, 2026 (YouTube): In this episode of &#8220;That\u2019s So Hindu,&#8221; Sangeetha Shankar speaks with Hindu American Foundation\u2019s,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23205,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23172\/revisions\/23205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}