the culture my parents have instilled in me, and the cultural values I have learned and seen in American

society adds to my foundation. However, it is my experience and interaction with the Hindu culture that

helps define my character. Since I was young, my parents have constantly tried to instill the Hindu culture

in me. By the age of thirteen, I knew how to read, write and recite Sanskrit prayers and hymns. All these

things were in a vastly different language with completely unique characters. However, despite all these

cultural achievements I acquired, I did not get a sense of my true Hindu culture until I actually stepped

foot in my country three years ago. My arrival to India could be summed up in two words : culture shock.

After a long and tiring sixteen hour airplane ride my family and I finally arrived to our

destination. As I stepped off the airplane I realized I was stepping into a whole different world. I had

arrived in a place so foreign to me yet a major part of me.

As I walked out of the grimy glass doors, I had entered into an unknow

their culture. A culture I am proud to be a part of because I, too, feel united with the Indian people. When

How could these kids be so happy living in such standards? All of my questions were answered after my

around you. If the Indians, in America, did not stick together to convey the Hindu culture to the next

at that moment changed my attitude towards how I would view other people, more specifically, my

resemble paradise. There, were children outside who were barely dressed running around their tiny mud

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