Akash Kapur, who has lived since a child in both the USA (Minnesota to be more precise) and India writes from Ponicherry India about "India's remarkable process of Americanization. His opinion piece in the New York Times begins with the news that both Starbucks and Amazon are launching themselves in India. These beginnings, he suggests, may signal the completion of the process. Beyond this straightforward observation, he offers examples in support of his conclusion that, "The American promise of renewal and reinvention is deeply seductive--but, as I have learned since coming back home, it is also profoundly menacing."
No doubt, a similar conclusion could be reached based upon examples from the United States as well. It is not only in India that promising inventiveness and optimism lead both to happiness and sorrow.
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