where are you from?

[smittenbyu]

It's a question that drives me mad. For a long time I just didn't know how to answer it. Now, I just say India. And once again the question bothers me. As locals know places in India, they ask where in India. Well, I technically was born in Hyderabad, well, actually Secunderabad (its twin city). Never lived in either of them, well, my first two years I did but I don't remember any of it. If you ask me of where to eat, etc. any local stuff, I have no idea. Mr. Google will have better responses. I feel more at home in Bangalore. And yet, I can't say I am from there either. But I do.

My daughter however, has no doubts where she is from. Whenever we ask her where she came from, she responds, "I am from India & Bangalore. I came from Ajji's house and then took a plane to Arlington."

(ajji- how she calls her maternal grandmother)

Comments

[jaelle-n-gilla.livejournal.com]

And your answer is "sure, because we Indians tend to flock together" ?!?! Sheesh! :-) I guess people are the same kind of stupid everywhere. Maybe it's instinct that has been genetically engraved since the stone age. "Oh, you're from Clan Bear? Do you know my sister then? She married your shaman." In a community some fifty people large you#d be luckier than with New York. :-)