Cultural Dilemma: A Grave Concern in Migrants

The most firing issue, cross-cultural confrontation is developing in a complex and progressive way.  The talks over problematic situation deal with instant migration where the new generations are provoked to follow a new way of living. The writers of Indian Diaspora have been writing for the dissatisfaction of an individual.  On the contrary, they are the illustrations for coming new generations. How far culture is getting its shape in a different cultural milieu?

 

          The movement of people in search of beautiful life towards U.S.A., Canada, U.K., Trinidad, Australia, Arab Countries etc. is a real manifestation of deficiency in own culture and society or in financial setup. The Colonial and Post-colonial experiences pour the complete pile of bitter truth of immigration.  We can analyze and come across with the examples of the characters in the writings of V.S.Naipaul, Bharati Mukherjee, Jhumpa Lahiri, Salman Rushdie, Meena Alexender, Kiran Desai etc. We can judge the bewilderment, homesickness, insomnia, alienation, and a reflection of culture change in immigrants.  The human psychology is actually disturbed with the selection of a new land.  

 

                    The expatriate sensibility brings an extra attachment for one’s culture and society.  On the other hand, it is the test of nature of society and culture. We carry culture, we follow culture, we apply it but the confrontation with next culture is all about conflict between two cultures. The discourses among educationists, social thinkers, and diaspora writers put the sore experience of expatriate sensibility. Every year at least 30% people are migrating themselves for a better future.  Where is that threshold of future and success? Where is satisfaction?  They are still in search of that unseen heaven on earth.  A search for peace is never ending.  However, meaning of peace is still a crucial question for any individual of any nation. 

           

          The commencement of assimilation of entire personality in a new land follows the strict immigration-laws.  It is the best trial of an emigrant to prove his existence among the people of that nation.  The social mores hassle again the perplexed mind of an individual to accept redundant culture and society. Here, he feels the loss of culture and drastic nature of new society. 

                   

          The experiments over societies in a classical manner collect the reflections and a mickle of trends.  However, exile for a better future cannot be fruitful but the assimilation and adoption of culture can lead to the ways of that new land.  The tendency of dual-culture makes tough life of a fresh immigrant.  He can not show the reluctance and even can not prove his one side culture.  To maintain the area of his society, he will have to go for the adjustment with culture, trends and mannerism.

         

          The chaos of social dilemma may convey the drawbacks of separate cultural system, where groups are responsible for the change.  A leading perspective of common group however, purifies the ultimate target of changing culture and mannerism.  But the nature of dynamic culture can carry a huge size of regular practices which are more progressive and adhesive to culture.

         

          The social structure provides some factors to maintain the flow of culture.  And the feeling towards the existing of it, recreates an emotional panorama of migrated people who are still suffering and struggling.  They can observe circumstances, meaningless efforts and several issues regarding immigration.  As they have got it due to power of time and money.  It can be accrual in dividing culture for the change of environment and religion.  Religion and culture both lead each other to maintain the fulcrum of diasporic milieu. The life-style changes but inner articulation demonstrates with a different perspective.  And the future holds the expectations of cultural dynamics in a shape of placidity.  It seems very clear that the future of ‘Indian diaspora’ and ‘cross-cultural encounter’ is still in dilemma.

                                                                                  ANOOP KATHAIT

                                                                           Lecturer, Professional Communication

                                             Dev Bhoomi Institute of Technology, Dehradun, Uttarakhand

                                                                            India

                                              

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