Asian Indian Minority Groups In The United States
Workshop Paper:
Asian Indians
Tatia Orenczak
Baker College: SOC321R
Introduction
This paper will examine the Asian Indian minority group in the United States and look at issues facing this minority in the workplace. Further a proposed training program will be developed to aid in understanding between this minority and the dominate culture. India has a history not unscathed by the negative effects of colonization and various forms of oppression. But the British gave up control of India in 1947 as a result of the peaceful resistance led by Mahatma Gandhi (Pavri, 2014). Asian Indians began immigration to the United States in the mid nineteenth century. The 2010 Census report 3.2 million Asian Indians living in the United States. (U.S. Census …show more content…
The four largest religious groups of India are Hinduism, Sikhism, Islam, and Christianity. The early immigrants from India attempted to maintain separate from other cultures in their worship and true to their caste. Modern day immigrants face an integrated religious experience, often times practicing their faith with those from other countries (Bayor, 2011). This becomes a hybrid faith of sorts for the Indo-American. Further complicated by Western influence the religious practices of Indian immigrants will likely look much different than that of those from their homeland. Second and third generation Indo-Americans cannot appreciate the unique intricacies of their parent’s and grandparents’ religious rituals (Kalita, 2004). When living in India these intricacies can be witnessed on a day to day basis. Regional and caste differences would be self-evident and therefore make sense to the younger generation. The daily practices of Hinduism, for example, are impractical and not likely to be performed in our Western culture. Much of religion for the 2nd and 3rd generation Indo-Americans is in primarily in belief and much less ritualistic (Bayor, …show more content…
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Asian Indians
Tatia Orenczak
Baker College: SOC321R
Introduction
This paper will examine the Asian Indian minority group in the United States and look at issues facing this minority in the workplace. Further a proposed training program will be developed to aid in understanding between this minority and the dominate culture. India has a history not unscathed by the negative effects of colonization and various forms of oppression. But the British gave up control of India in 1947 as a result of the peaceful resistance led by Mahatma Gandhi (Pavri, 2014). Asian Indians began immigration to the United States in the mid nineteenth century. The 2010 Census report 3.2 million Asian Indians living in the United States. (U.S. Census …show more content…
The four largest religious groups of India are Hinduism, Sikhism, Islam, and Christianity. The early immigrants from India attempted to maintain separate from other cultures in their worship and true to their caste. Modern day immigrants face an integrated religious experience, often times practicing their faith with those from other countries (Bayor, 2011). This becomes a hybrid faith of sorts for the Indo-American. Further complicated by Western influence the religious practices of Indian immigrants will likely look much different than that of those from their homeland. Second and third generation Indo-Americans cannot appreciate the unique intricacies of their parent’s and grandparents’ religious rituals (Kalita, 2004). When living in India these intricacies can be witnessed on a day to day basis. Regional and caste differences would be self-evident and therefore make sense to the younger generation. The daily practices of Hinduism, for example, are impractical and not likely to be performed in our Western culture. Much of religion for the 2nd and 3rd generation Indo-Americans is in primarily in belief and much less ritualistic (Bayor, …show more content…
Multicultural America: An encyclopedia of the newest Americans. Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications
Kalita, S.M. (2004). Suburban Sahibs. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Kyllonen, P. C., & Gitomer, D. H. (2002). Individual Differences. In J. W. Guthrie (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Education (2nd ed., Vol. 4, pp. 1112-1129). New York: Macmillan Reference USA. Retrieved from http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CCX3403200312&v=2.1&u=lom_falconbaker&it=r&p=GVRL&sw=w&asid=d9292eb2a90ae7f050b9ae06effbef70
Pavri, T. (2014). Asian Indian Americans. In T. Riggs (Ed.), Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America (3rd ed., Vol. 1, pp. 165-178). Detroit: Gale. Retrieved from http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CCX3273300023&v=2.1&u=lom_falconbaker&it=r&p=GVRL&sw=w&asid=e6d4b384f8d1e0c7cdce958f35f2ec26
Schaefer, R. T. (2012). Racial and ethnic groups (13th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson
U.S. Census Bureau. (2012). The Asian population: 2010. (C2010BR-11). Retrieved from