Blog #10: Holidays

In English class, the class has been watching a movie called Namesake directed by Mira Nair. Namesake is based off the novel The Namesake written by Juhmpa Lahiri. Namesake is a film about an Indian family that lives in the United States. In this story the family learns to adapt to American customs, such as marring people outside of their religion. While I watched the movie I noticed something very interesting. I noticed the Indian family celebrated Christmas. Now obviously Christmas is not an Indian holiday, thats why I found it so interesting that they celebrated the holiday. Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus, Indians do not believe in Jesus. Indians believe in Hinduism by wich they believe in many gods and religious figures. My personal opinion on the reason why the family celebrated Christmas was to assimalte. When immigrants first started comming to America they wanted to blend in. This started the trend for many immagrants to accomadate to the ways of an American life style. Including holidays whether they are religious or not. Therefore Americans holidays such as Christmas are celebrated by those who may not even believe in what is being celebrated.

Namesake. Dir. Mira Nair. Perf. Kal Penn.Mira Nair, 2007