Personal Narrative: My Native American Culture

As an Indian-Americans, I grew up with two very different cultures influencing me in to distinct worlds: my home life and my school life. It wasn’t until I became a freshman a few years ago that these two cultures fused into one. I used to think using my mother tongue in public was weird, and that I had to be just like my Caucasian friends to be “cool”. As an early teen, I never acknowledged my own religion, culture, and ethnicity; sometimes I disgraced them. But, as I matured, I realized that my religion, culture, and ethnicity is a gift. Although it makes me different, it helps me succeed. The standards my parents set for me propagate a new academic standard. When I came to accept it, and met other Indians, I succumbed to a pressure that

Proceeding to look for answers, I looked to google for a simple search, “Indian Americans”. This search turned up millions of results, from answers from yahoo.com to racist videos about Indians. One in particular interested me, an article on pewresearch.org, caught my attention. It seemed reliable because the sources were cited at the bottom and it was a “.org” site. After clicking on it, I saw a plethora of generalized studies involving Indian Americans. One thing that particularly interested me was where DeSilver, the author of the article, claimed that, “Indian Americans are among the most highly educated racial or ethnic groups.” This fact alone explained a lot. It is general knowledge that you have to go to college in order to get a good job in the corporate world. As I learned in Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, the more human capital you build up, the more valuable you are in the working world. In other words, if you have more skills, in this case education, then you’ll be more valuable in the professional world. Thus, by transitive property, Indians are richer because they are generally more educated then other ethnic