Mr Singh denies this practice amounts to any sort of spying, and says in the Indian cultural context it is perfectly ethical.
Pavan Varma, the director-general of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, also thinks that in at least one respect the middle class of his own country behaves more like members of its elite than as a distinctive group of its own.
Abroad, they were hosted by Ardy2M Design Studio Private Limited (India), Comparte (Chile), the Indian National Trust For Art and Cultural Heritage (India) and the Red de Guardianes de Semillas (Ecuador).
This kind of collaboration between Tribes and States marks a new era in working together to meet the unique educational and cultural needs of American Indian and Alaska Native students, to improve their academic achievement, and ultimately to better the future of these Tribal students and their communities.
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They quickly made the decision to develop an Indian version that points to in-country resources and takes cultural differences into account.
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Mr. KYLE RUDDICK (Indian Music Fan): I like the Indian music, and I like the different, kind of, cultural settings it kind of has.
For second-generation Indian Americans, returning to their parents' home country can be a cultural odyssey.
Being Indian myself, I had a unique ability to relate to both their cultural and financial needs.
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The cultural psychologist Barbara Rogoff studied this kind of informal education in a Guatemalan Indian society, where she found that apprenticeship allowed even young children to become adept at difficult and dangerous tasks like using a machete.
Charles Dias, the parliament's Anglo-Indian representative, has campaigned for greater government support, including reserved university places, new cultural centres and a fresh caste census.
Cultural differences among Americans of Japanese, Cambodian, Chinese, Hawaiian, East Indian, Viet Namese or Phillipine descent can be as distinct as those between U.S. Latinas of Cuban, Mexican, Spanish or Brazilian descent.
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"It honors a landmark 1893 speech given in Chicago by Swami Vivekananda, who introduced Hinduism to the U.S. So we will be working with various Indian museums over the next four years in the preservation, exhibition and promotion of India's cultural heritage, " he said.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described him as a "national treasure and global ambassador of India's cultural heritage".
Department employees and guests were also honored by a cultural performance by Mr. Dennis W. Zotigh, a Kiowa, San Juan Pueblo and Santee Dakota Indian.
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