Maestro Sagardeep: Not sure how long you lived outside India but your sentences keep missing things! LOL From your post you certainly don't sound like you made up your mind. I fail to see what it is that you expect your kids to gain from the short exposure to India or its culture. What is wrong with the culture here (Canada)? Afterall, they are born here and will have to find their place in this society. Even if you or some other parent removes them to India when they are in the middle or high school, they may not turn into the kind of Indian you were or may not pick up the kind of traditional values you might wish. On the other hand, India itself is growing through such rapid changes that it now appears there is little difference between there and here in the way young people are behaving. I hope all your emphasis is not restricted to the sexual mores. Differences even in that area are being leveled.

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Originally posted by GlobalIndian

Maestro Sagardeep: Not sure how long you lived outside India but your sentences keep missing things! LOL From your post you certainly don't sound like you made up your mind. I fail to see what it is that you expect your kids to gain from the short exposure to India or its culture. What is wrong with the culture here (Canada)? Afterall, they are born here and will have to find their place in this society. Even if you or some other parent removes them to India when they are in the middle or high school, they may not turn into the kind of Indian you were or may not pick up the kind of traditional values you might wish. On the other hand, India itself is growing through such rapid changes that it now appears there is little difference between there and here in the way young people are behaving. I hope all your emphasis is not restricted to the sexual mores. Differences even in that area are being leveled.

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Originally posted by GlobalIndian

Maestro Sagardeep: Not sure how long you lived outside India but your sentences keep missing things! LOL From your post you certainly don't sound like you made up your mind. I fail to see what it is that you expect your kids to gain from the short exposure to India or its culture. What is wrong with the culture here (Canada)? Afterall, they are born here and will have to find their place in this society. Even if you or some other parent removes them to India when they are in the middle or high school, they may not turn into the kind of Indian you were or may not pick up the kind of traditional values you might wish. On the other hand, India itself is growing through such rapid changes that it now appears there is little difference between there and here in the way young people are behaving. I hope all your emphasis is not restricted to the sexual mores. Differences even in that area are being leveled.

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leveled ?????????
did you say leveled?
which world do you live in my friend?
have you been to any hotel recently in big cities in India...or on those naughty Indian message boards
You have no idea how colorful the scene is over there now.
It will take at least, i repeat, at least two decades for Canada to catch up with whats going on there. I wish I could go back to school for some "refreshing" time.....in India of course
I don't know why people always freeze their mind in time when they think of a place left behind several years ago. The world did not stop spinning all those years and the same is true about places they leave behind.

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Guys ,

East is east and west is west and never the twain shall meet ...

To me your argument appears like ' hey these days the latest cars are in India - with so many cars on the road Indians have more cars than Europeans on an average '

How much proportion of India's population comes under the above category ?? What about the other 90% population which lives in smaller cities ??

1 DPS case became a scandal and that would not even be an eyebrow raiser here in Canada ............. please try to project reality - do you have any solid statistics to back your claims or is it just personal experience ??

India and the society is by far still far more conservative than the West . You do not have 90% teens having sex and 80% live in relationships like here . There is no meaning of the word marriage / family here for a majority .

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Guys ,

East is east and west is west and never the twain shall meet ...

To me your argument appears like ' hey these days the latest cars are in India - with so many cars on the road Indians have more cars than Europeans on an average '

How much proportion of India's population comes under the above category ?? What about the other 90% population which lives in smaller cities ??

1 DPS case became a scandal and that would not even be an eyebrow raiser here in Canada ............. please try to project reality - do you have any solid statistics to back your claims or is it just personal experience ??

India and the society is by far still far more conservative than the West . You do not have 90% teens having sex and 80% live in relationships like here . There is no meaning of the word marriage / family here for a majority .

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I agree to that completely that social values are not what they used to be esp in the young hip crowd ------ but when I compare it to Canada I find this sexual freedom and associated problems to be a lot less .... a LOT . And thats because of social values which dictate whats acceptable and whats not ..... here people do not mind if teenagers have sex or people are in live in relnships but in India its still socially un acceptable (even in metros ) and that ensures that such cases become exceptions and not the norm .

Same is with drugs - I recall in 1987 ish when drugs had begun to make inroads to India but with serials like 'Subah' and the social denouncing it beat a hasty retreat ........... unlike here where its commonplace and few object .

I wonder how much insulated from this environment can we raise our kids in - something which we value in our parents and the society we were brought up in .

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How much proportion of India's population comes under the above category ?? What about the other 90% population which lives in smaller cities ??

1 DPS case became a scandal and that would not even be an eyebrow raiser here in Canada ............. please try to project reality - do you have any solid statistics to back your claims or is it just personal experience ??

India and the society is by far still far more conservative than the West . You do not have 90% teens having sex and 80% live in relationships like here . There is no meaning of the word marriage / family here for a majority .

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