with 2.9 million people from India in the USA

@Northwest that makes sense / no need in Billings

@LordShadowfire

Welcome to my country ..and welcome to my America, Mister LordShadowfire.

Today will be your first lesson in Hindi, so take a seat and we'll get started!

@ninalanyon almost all if not all in America speak English

@robertsnj I know that, I have worked with some of them. My point was that Hindi is not the mother tongue of everyone from India.

@ninalanyon it is the most common non english language spoken. but sure their are a lot of other langauges spoken in that large county

@SunshineGirl
Teaching Hindi in the USA would be a moot point, particularly since East Asians who live in the USA choose to not speak Hindi in the first place. Hindi is considered the Indian language of the poor, not the rich.

@swirlie yeah i realize the Indians here speak English. I was thinking more of non mandatory courses in Hindi to help with connecting their culture to ours. also maybe introducting Hindi holidays and
showing pieces of Christianity/ Jesus that were borrowed from the older Hindu religion / Lord Krishna

https://www.learnreligions.com/christ-krishna-connection-1770450

@robertsnj
You have to remember that anyone from India who immigrated to the USA only got there because they had money, not because they were poor people in India.

Because cultural language differences are a big deal in India to the point where a rich Indian won't even speak Hindi to a lower class designated person in India, it is highly unlikely that any well-educated East Asian living in the USA who of course speaks English would embrace the concept of actually speaking Hindi among their more affluent Indian friends and acquaintances in the USA.

The Indian culture is a culture unto itself and East Asians have no desire to try and pretend that American culture can be integrated into what they've otherwise known all their lives from their own cultural upbringing, meaning that the two cultures are like oil and water. If Hindi is embraced as a second language in America, who that language would be serving are what East Asians refer to as the lower class of East Asian culture who do not contribute anything of significance to the society they live in.