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Wealthy

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He has a type, anything but Asian. More specificly no south Asian, no Indian, Pakistani or Bengali women. 

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He has a type, anything but Asian. More specificly no south Asian, no Indian, Pakistani or Bengali women. 

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They are living very british lives

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Identity crisis

Missing culture

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He is married to Aisling, he met her after uni, he was intrigued by her red hair and green eyes.

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He is married to Aisling, he met her after uni, he was intrigued by her red hair and green eyes.

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She doesn't feel well in her relationship so she overcompensates when she meets her old friend Aisling.

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At the end Parminder opens every window. She feels free, happy and new. She's re-connected to her culture.

"She found herself smiling as she got up and wandered through the house opening every window."

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She's a stranger in a strange land

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Buying everything from the "right" stores

"Weekly grocery shops at Waitrose, or Ocado delivery with topups from Sainsbury. The children's clothes were from Boden, Joules - with little bits from Next and H&M; the furniture from House of Fraser, John Lewis and, only occasionally, Ikea." (7)

These stores all assimilate whiteness, produced and made for white pepole. They are all european westernized stores.

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"It took Gurpreet a while to wonder if they really needed to change the decor and furniture every other year and did the kids really need a seasonal wardrobe?"

Sign of wealth

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Normal, white and boring

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She gets tired of all the cultures in her life. Her parents was very traditionel Indian, so she took distance from it. She later did the same with the upperclass English culture.

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"She preferred her men pale and interesting"

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little bit racist

"Gurpreet overheard Aisling telling the girls about their proud Irish heritage" She tells the kids about her heritage but don't want them to know about their indian heritage

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"Parminder called her mum and scolded her thoughtlessness."

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"The children's clothes were from Boden, Joules - with little bits from Next and H&M; the furniture from House of Fraser, John Lewis and, only occasionally, Ikea."

She likes the good stuff

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Parminder and Gurpreet don't want to distance themselves from their home culture anymore.

"they didn't want to be tourists - daytrippers into their own cultures - anymore."

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They specifically avoid their own culture and religion

"Parminder couldn't believe how little her mother knew her. From time to time food parcels were delivered, all based on the fact that she had loved Indian sweets as a child. (...) She didn't notice when the parcels stopped arriving." (9)

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Opressing society - England

Their kids - "Parminder started to play bhangra in the car when she took the kids to school. When they complained, she turned up the volume."

Their spouse "One year Aisling was convinced the clothes had a strange odour and threw them in the bin."

"They didn't want to be tourists - daytrippers into their own cultures - anymore."

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His family changes their decor and furniture every other year. 

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His family changes their decor and furniture every other year. 

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The social environment changes when Parminder and Gurpreet finally get together.

"Down on the streets they felt a rush of recklessness and ran, hand in hand through the streets towards the bright lights."

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Takes charge at the restaurant and makes sure everything is in order

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Takes charge at the restaurant and makes sure everything is in order

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When he sees Parminder, he knows that she has waited for him.

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When he sees Parminder, he knows that she has waited for him.

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They finally feel at peace. Coming back to their roots, to their childhood makes them feel whole again.

"Gurpreet and Parminder felt underdressed. But here they belonged, here they were comfortable."

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Gurpreet and Parminder go to Diwali together, they felt underdressed but they felt like they belonged.

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Gurpreet and Parminder go to Diwali together, they felt underdressed but they felt like they belonged.

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They feed each other traditional indian food. Gurpreet felt more ethnic than before.

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They feed each other traditional indian food. Gurpreet felt more ethnic than before.

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"One night the kids walked in on him attempting to tie a pugri. They ran away screaming and Aisling told Gurpreet to stop scaring her children."

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He decides that his children should learn Punjabi.

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He decides that his children should learn Punjabi.

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He grows out his beard and hair, in the traditional Sikh way. 

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He grows out his beard and hair, in the traditional Sikh way. 

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"After he put the boys to bed David told Parminder that her behaviour was confusing them" David don't like her culture

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There is no real sense of home until the other half of the text, when Parminder and Gurpreet start touristing around England, spending time with each other and all of a sudden it appears to them that they finally feel comfortable with their cultural background.

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She is a dynamic character.

We learn about her feeling, her dreams and her past

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"He'd met Aisling after uni. Her red hair, green eyes and soft Irish accent were exotic"

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"David wanted to go to couple-counselling and when Parminder refused, he broke down and sobbed that he had no idea who she was anymore."