THE REALITY OF BEING BIRACIAL: BLACK AND SOUTH ASIAN/BLINDIAN An Interview with Sitara Abbas “One’s eyes serve as the windows to the world and one’s mind serves as the curtains to the windows. To be able to abdicate one’s biases and prejudices, emerging and embracing the beauty of what may not be akin, is to …
20 Amazing Multicultural Diwali Gift Ideas What Is Diwali? Diwali, aka Deepavali, is the festival of lights. In Hinduism, it exemplifies how only light can dispel darkness and commemorates good’s victory over evil. It is a time for reflection, celebration, and gift-giving (like New Years in the United States of America). It is an official holiday …
My First Karva Chauth As A Christian Newly Married My husband passed me the telephone and my mother-in-law transitioned from Hindi to English. “Hi, Nikita how are you, it’s going to be Karva Chauth in 3 days. Are you going to keep Karva Chauth for your husband?” “Karva Chauth”, I muttered, like a deer …
Interracial/Intercultural Marriage: Tamil-Canadian Woman And African-American Man About Us Melanie is Tamil-Canadian and Roland is African-American. They met in graduate school and were long distance for the first three years of their relationship. After Roland proposed, Melanie moved to the United States. Ironically, while Melanie hates spicy food, Roland loves spicy Tamil dishes. They just …
Marriage Resume Secrets Aka BioData Prior to dating and marrying my husband who is South Asian, I had never heard of the term biodata. He had hesitantly mentioned to me that his parents wanted to have his biodata done before we were engaged. Yet he was swift to let them know the biodata route was not for …
5 MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT SOUTH ASIANS/INDIANS DEBUNKED It’s almost humorous that I’m writing this post. However, it has become justifiable. And hopefully it will be eye opening for many of you that are curious and/or open to learning more about South Asian/Indian culture. I know you must be thinking, say what? What happened? BEING A MULTIRACIAL AND MULTICULTURAL FAMILY …
BROWN SUGAR AND CARDAMOM INFUSED SWEET POTATO CASSEROLE As a multiracial and multicultural family we love to create a new fusion recipe. I’m African-American and my husband is South Asian. This recipe exemplifies the fusing of our cultures. CARDAMOM “Cardamom, sometimes Cardamon or Cardamum,[1] is a spice made from the seeds of several plants in the …
LOVE FAMILY BOOK REVIEW Book Review: Love Family Author: Nora Barrett Cooper, Illustrations: Joelle Nelson Book Publishing Company: Loving Lion Books What if you could customize the main characters in a book for your daughter(s)? A book that will become a family keepsake and that you could joyfully add to your family library of books? …
Never Lose Faith Interracial/Intercultural Marriage: Cuban-American Woman And Indian Man About Meet Stephanie and Ranjeet! Stephanie is a second generation Cuban – American woman married to Ranjeet, who is from India. Together they have two beautiful kids, Samaya who is 4 years old, and their newest addition, a son Avyaan who is 6 months …
MULTIRACIAL PARENTING BOOKS As an African-American and South Asian-American family one of the challenges we hear from other multiracial and multicultural families is how do you find the right cultural balance for your child? We live in a world that is very race and culturally conscious but not competent. As a whole our society/ world is not enlightened and seems …
