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In Reply to: Re: As Indian as one can get/be??? posted by Farmer on September 12, 2009 at 19:26:33:
Nationality, ethnicity and culture are separable things.
Populations get displaced and people have been moving around for centuries. What you see is not always what you get. People can look one way and come from somewhere else entirely. And far too many people can't even be defined by traditional parameters for nationality and race.
In the end it's how people feel about themselves, how they see and define themselves that matters, and not how outsiders see them. It's then up to everybody to be open-minded enough to accept who people say there are and stop pidgeon-holing them to fit their own outdated notions about where different ethnicities fit in the grand scheme of things.
If Kat says she's Indian, that's good enough for me. If she had said she was British or English or mixed, that would have been fine too--it's how she defines herself.
