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  • 01:14:28 pm on July 17, 2008 | # | |
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    SM post, A South Asian American Agenda?. the discussion about the term “south asian” vs. “indian american”, etc. has broken out. there’s obviously some hostility toward muslim brownz on that thread in terms of their lack of interest in pan-south asian events. i offered a few quick opinions, but i would add

    1) people who are of the dharmic religions have a *natural* association with india and south asian which people of the abrahamic religions do not. india is the holy land of the dharmic religions.

    2) i suspect this explains the transition toward transnational islamic identity among many south asian diasporic muslim youth. specifically, an identity that is more rooted in the world of islam than the local parameters of islam on the north indian plain. a shift to identity markers which take arab standards as the norm and so on.

     

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