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The confinement of British-born Asians:
Both sides of the spectrum

As a British-born Asian myself, I have always been fascinated by the reasons to which my parents felt they had to confine and shelter me from what they thought were negative influences. Many other British-born Asians have found themselves in a very similar situation. The more I talked to them about their experiences, the more I found that there was an ever-bridging gap between the two generations. This cultural phenomenon (teenagers becoming distant and elusive from their parents) is not unheard of in Western societies. However the reasons for this rift with the families of the British-born Asian is different as it involves an entire new generation being brought up in conditions and environments completely different to the parents own. The parents were born and raised in India whilst their children were born and brought up in a country entirely different… England.
For the past few generations in almost......

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