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Pull and push factors influencing Assimilation of the Immigrant Indian Community in America

While some immigrants considered themselves to be fully assimilated in their job environment, they did not consider this to be true in the social and political sphere. Because racism in the USA exists, it works as a deterrent to the assimilation of Indian immigrants into mainstream American society.

India in the United States Press: Framing US South Asia policy

Right from its independence at midnight on 14/15 August 1947, India’s political ties with the US government did not start on a friendly note. Scholars of international relations have shown that during the early years of the Cold War period, India, led for many years by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, refused to join any superpower-led military alliance that would seek to curtail India’s independence in terms of following its foreign policy. I

Conceptualizing Well-being in Youth: The Potential of Youth Clubs

In Norway, as in the other Nordic countries, youth clubs were offered to young people as an alternative place for socializing outside often overcrowded urban flats and facilitating simple leisure activities like board games.vv

From Medical Pluralism to Medical Marginality

In today’s world, patients have multiple choices in terms of adopting any health system for being healthy. Medical systems are generally divided into two major categories: science-based, modern medicine and alternative medicines.

Unequal reward for equal work? Understanding the disparate opportunities for women in India

Indian society is one of the most unequal societies of the world and is divided into different social hierarchies of caste, class, religion, etc. Caste is a determinant of power, economic inequality, poverty, and discrimination in contemporary India. When it comes to women, they face the dual burden of discrimination, first gender-based and, second, caste-based.

Navigating big data dilemmas

Facebook is yet again dominating news headlines, this time for its #10YearChallenge encouraging users to post pictures of themselves from 10 years ago and today. While ostensibly a fun and trivial exercise, the viral challenge raised questions regarding whether the game was initiated by Facebook to gather data on its users. This led Zak Doffman to claim in Forbes, “The world of Big Data has clearly changed in the last year”.