Hybridity to Identity Crisis

Hybridity to Identity Crisis

It is both the way true: through an unconscious process of hybrid mixture or creolization and through a conscious process of deliberate assimilation people tend to acquire hybridized identity.

Sujan Adhikari, 42, a migrated Green Card holder, has the same problems to share with his original community while he is back to Nepal for a short visit. His two daughters, Betty and Dolly can hardly speak a complete Nepali sentence. They are reared in western cultures, western schools and western upbringing, and therefore, the new generation of Nepalese-American are totally cut off from their origin.++

However, in the deepest substratum of their heart, they share an impulse to have a firm and stainless identity that could attach them to their origin. Betty and Dolly feel that they are not totally assimilated with the white children out there is American society. They feel like estranged in the group. While back to Nepal, they are stuck at their anonymity and at their cultural distance. While the parents refresh their relationships and friendships with their long missed kins and friends, the two daughters have to start anew for they were born in the USA. Betty and Dolly try their best but fail to achieve anything. Frustrated and dejected they wish to go back to USA to take refuse.

Who is there to share their pain? It is a pain of identity crisis, especially experienced by the generation of Green Card Holders. It is a pain that leads to existential crisis and there is perhaps no solution to it – either side you are rejected.

While I see the vogue among the middle and lower class Nepali to win Green Card Lottery, I prefigure a sort of dreadful nightmare to be rehearse very soon.