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Hi Prasad,

why should preserving brahmin traditions/culture mean birth based caste system or in any way discriminate others ?. are you saying, let us TBs forget about our culture ??.

I keep visiting US very often, have a lot of friends/colleagues there. In one of my visits to a Indian family, the next gen kids did not know anything about Deepavali, Ramayana, Mahabarata, had not heard the word Vedas etc.. They were the kids of a mixed marriage between a TB & Chinese.

They were all celebrating thanks giving, Christmas etc.. with gong ho !!

Some of us TBs believe that it is important our kids & their kids continue to read, learn about our vedas, puranas etc.. even if they dont perform sandhyavandam everyday !!

This is the same for Gujarati & Bengali families who I visited in the US !!

every community has a right to preserve itself & its culture. I can understand if someone says, we "cannot do everything" that is prescribed in our scriptures, but they should learn & practice at least "some of it" !!

for eg, many Muslims dont perform prayers 5 times a day, because of work etc.. which is fine, but they read the Koran, "try" to follow many of the tenets !!

Cheers,
JK