{"id":8136,"date":"2009-08-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/08\/17\/what-indian-american-teens-are-up-against\/"},"modified":"2009-08-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T12:00:00","slug":"what-indian-american-teens-are-up-against","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/08\/17\/what-indian-american-teens-are-up-against\/","title":{"rendered":"What Indian-American Teens Are Up Against"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JvVAV09-dQ8\">www.youtube.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>USA, August 18, 2009 (from the HPI staff): If you are a parent who ever wondered what your sons and daughters encounter as Hindus living in America, this is a video you have to see. <\/p>\n<p>The video was made by an otherwise common American teenager, called Molly, while her friend Saraswati visited her. Sitting at the kitchen table, Saraswati faces aggressive &#8212; and ignorant &#8212; questions about her values, her culture and her religion. Molly insistently proselytizes and tries to ridicule her new friend. <\/p>\n<p>For those parents who sometimes think that hoping for the best is enough to preserve your culture in the next generation, this is a reminder: there is much work to do. <\/p>\n<p>Click on the source link above to see the video, and enjoy the poem below, sent by one of our Editors inspired by the video.<\/p>\n<p>Rudyard Kipling:<br \/>Now it is not good for the Christian&#8217;s health<br \/>To hustle the Aryan brown,<br \/>For the Christian riles and the Aryan smiles,<br \/>And it weareth the Christian down.<br \/>And the end of the fight<br \/>Is a tombstone white<br \/>With the name of the late deceased<br \/>And the epitaph drear: &#8220;A fool lies here<br \/>who tried to hustle the East.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.youtube.com USA, August 18, 2009 (from the HPI staff): If you are a parent who ever wondered what your,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8136","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}