with 2.9 million people from India in the USA

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Yes that would be a great idea!

Hindi should not be taught in the USA at all! God bless America!

Of course it should, as well as Indian culture !

I already have to press #2 for Spanish, I ain't pressing #3 for Hindi

Anything including language that could help their cultural integration would be amazing

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that have had a strong impact on your medical and tech sectors is it time to offer Hindi as a language in high school and / or more normal in colleges?

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/indian-immigrants-united-states

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swirlie · F

The English language is the language of the elite who live in India, not Hindi. The only East Asians who speak Hindi in India are the derelicts of Indian society who live in the streets and are largely uneducated. What you're suggesting in your post addresses your acute lack of awareness of Indian culture in India.

SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

@swirlie Well that is not so different to the Mandarin Chinese taught in business schools. It is a lingua franca designed to appeal to international workers rather than cultural authenticity.

swirlie · F

@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.

robertsnj · 56-60, M

@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

swirlie · F

@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.