Facade of sheer pretense!

I was at a party at a friends’ place. It is customary for us, for a selected good friends: so they say, to have this gathering every once a year during this season, the time to celebrate “Dasain” to remind ourselves of our cultural heritage and a chance for the women to drop themselves into their traditional attire which always makes them look classy and gorgeous than ever.

According to the Evite, a popular online invitation growing ever more popular among us, my calculation was about fifty people whom I knew and hopefully vice versa. But I was dumbfounded to witness so many new faces but of course it’s always good to acquaint ourselves to new people especially at occasions as such. I tried getting introduced to as many people and there was one who kept me thinking. A fellow with a strong made up accent, unwilling to converse in his own native language and seemed to have distanced himself totally from his heritage as soon as he had set his foot in the American soil!

Don’t you despise people wearing the façade of sheer pretense, trying to emulate the western world with neither doing justice to each other. Something natural does wonders to the sense of hearing or seeing. But this was how things worked for him. Western world always seemed serene to us coming from the third world. Being able to speak English veiled with the sweet accent seemed even more appealing to the ears that was only accustomed to way of hearing that was always judgmental. But then, maybe, its just the way I think!