We Indians are all immigrants in this country; except of course the temporary tourists and visitors. In fact, so are all Americans, who have emigrated to this country, down the ages, for various reasons. All immigrants have freely chosen and decided, for their own reasons, to settle down and make America their new home. This is a very traumatic and difficult decision for all first generation immigrants, who were born and brought up elsewhere, with their emotional memories and attachments in their respective places of origin. Once this decision is made, its essential that the immigrant 'cuts his or her umbilical cord, and strikes roots here, professionally, socially and politically. Its only natural for people from he same place of origin and background to settle down and cling together for their emotional security and social interaction. But this tendency must not create 'exclusive islands, hoping to recreate their place of origin, as it was when they migrated. This is a great opportunity for us to discard our inherited bad and undesirable habits while retaining our good values and heritage. At the same time we must selectively absorb the good in our new environment and avoid the bad. Unfortunately it is easier and attractive to retain the bad and absorb the bad; often leading to very loud obnoxious claims of superior values, while exhibiting the worst in both cultures. WE MUST BE LIVING EXAMPLES OF THE BEST IN OUR INHERITED CULTURE AND THE NEW CULTURE WE HAVE ASSIMILATED..

Since LANGUAGE is the most important means of communication; we must learn and develop our communication skills, with our younger generations and our new environment. Mother tongue or the language of our parents before immigration is desirable for ethnic, emotional and cultural identity. But very good control and command of the language of our new environment is far more important and essential for successful integration and surviving competition. It is an irony of history, that good grammatical English we learned from our British imperialists combined with our strong mathematical and general knowledge heritage has made us the International Gurus of the Computer and Internet Age. Let us hope we will not destroy this Divine Opportunity by the regional languages rapidly replacing English and dividing India; while all infrastructure facilities are fast collapsing due to political indifference. First generation immigrants often try to live by the cultural values they were born and brought up in and find it extremely hard to understand, adapt and accept the cultural values of their new generation, in which the second generation immigrants are born and brought up in. This conflict between the two generations can be and often are very traumatic, with unfortunate results, unless managed with great tolerance, care, understanding and respectful restraint. Dress code, standards of sexual behavior, free mixing of males and females of all ages and their sense of equality, family relationships are all areas of extreme stress and strain.

"Unity in Diversity" of all types is an unrealistic paradox. Diversity does not lead to conflict, so long as all can thrive independently. But as and when acute struggle for survival occurs, the different diverse groups and interests struggling for survival will destroy the opponents by every means at its disposal. In this struggle for survival , there is no morality. This is the Law of Nature. All diverse groups continuously intermingle and amalgamate into a new group. All societies are dynamic organisms continuously changing, evolving and mutating, some faster than others. With rapid communication and free fast movement of people all over the world Homo sapiens are in one global village, with no pure races. US and Canadian American nation is the fastest growing and changing society and economy in the world only because its the only area in the world where the best from all over the world are attracted and welcomed to be absorbed and digested into the regular streamline.