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The Coconut Generation
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Understanding the Coconut Generation: Ministry to the Americanized Asian Indians (more commonly known as The Coconut Generation) is a book by Sam George the Executive Director of PARIVAR International - a non-profit initiative to address the needs of youth and families of Asian Indian origin in North America and to the Asian Indian community worldwide. The Coconut Generation is about a Christian ministry to the emerging generations of Asian Indians in North America and around the World, especially those who feel they are "brown on the outside yet white on the inside" (i.e. "a coconut"). Coconut, as in brown on the outside and white on the inside, is a metaphor for the emerging generation of Asian Indian communities in the Western cultures. The book (and its corresponding website) attempts to answer some questions posed by Sam George: :Who are the emerging generation of Asian Indians in the western society? :How are they different from their peers and their parents? :Where are they coming from? :Why do they do what they do? :Does the immigrant generation really understand their dilemma? :What is the future of the Asian Indian community in the Diaspora? :Why bother? The book seeks to address the disconnection of the emerging generations of North Americans of southern Asian origin between their strong ties to their Indian traditions through their parents and their upbringing in western cultures that is contrastingly different from the former, to discover their unique identity, embrace their bi-culturalism, locate their spirituality, recognize their search for community and empathize with some of their common struggles. The book is a multidisciplinary study of the Indian American experience, including a brief historical review, demographic data, psycho-social analysis, anthropological and theological reflections, results of a web-based survey and many practical lessons for Christian ministry, with an attempt to not overlook the needs of the prodigy of the American-born generation. See Also
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