I have observed that people change after coming to US. Don't worry. This blog is not about to tell you how bad I felt when I came to know that a certain person I know, has changed.
This is a draft of the changes that I observed in many people after coming here.
I will start with the easiest of all the changes to be noticed in a person, physical changes and diet.
Being a gulti,the very first thing I noticed in my friends that they started shaving their moustache, which some of them never did in their life time.
Ofcourse, there are some exceptions like Mr.SKA, who is still maintaining his gulti-macho look!
Then, they put on extra weight or loose too much weight, for whatever reasons.
After an year you suddenly realize that you are becoming fat and then on, you would start looking at the ingredients of the food that you eat.
You would eat all the fat in the pizzas at Pizzahut but when the waitress asks you if you need anything to drink, your immediate response would be diet coke.
Some of my folks even went ahead and changed their entire diet to have only protein shakes in the morning and egg whites and grilled chicken in the evening.
Forget about food, most people stop drinking the tap water after coming here. I used to drink the water of the boring pump at the end of my street whenever I
visit my village. Now, I make sure that my roommates buy only Pure Life.
Coming to workouts (say e-workouts), people get introduced to new techniques to reduce the fat in their body, such as fat burners and sonar belts.
Please note that these people do not workout at all but consume fat burners or put on the fat buring machine for buring their ever growing fat.
Last but not the least, non-drinkers get initiated with beers first. Then, depending upon their talent and capacity, they continue or upgrade or quit.
And boozers, they get introduced to new stuff, such as single malt scotch etc.After they try everything that is affordable by them, they start reaching
new scores in each segment. For example, Mr.AY, recently drank 100 bottles of beer. Beat that!
Social:
Then we start building contacts. Whenever you meet a guy or girl, you would make sure that you note down his phone number or address or email id or orkut id
or atleast his car number so that you can catch hold of the guy next time u see his car in any parking lot.
Then you would try to change your desi accent to american(read ammmmeerican). I have seen many people even practicing this rigorously, even when talking to desis.
In this process you would change your pronounciation from our good old british to american. It will be obvious if you observe the change in your own
pronounciation when you speak some words like 'Schedule','Route'.In some cases you would entirely replace the original words with the fancy american words.
For example 'yep' and 'nope' will take the place of 'yes' and 'no'.
Another thing I noticed is that whenever you see a desi guy around, you will stare at him as if you have never seen a desi before.
Even the guy at the receiving end looks at you as if you are a sinner. As if you do not deserve to be here.
Many folks who never watched a single film in their entire life become movie freaks after coming here, showing the boredom and lonely life out here as the cause.
Some people of the same category even become a bit extra passionate and think of movie making all the time.
Economical:
People dream that they would be thrifty when they come to US, to save some money and finally return when they accumulate some pre-dtermined amount of it.
So, they start searching for deals on the net whenever they want to buy some stuff. This works fine for sometime, but when it becomes a habit, they start
buying things that they don't need, just because they saw it cheaper on some website. Because of many such factors and credit cards,
people eventually come out of their indian 'Saving Economy' background to 'Spending economy' mode.
People say it's quite natural for a person to change over a period of time. Think of any friend of yours who was your best buddy types in school or college.
Think of him now. If there's no change in his social,psycholigcal,economical or atleast physical patterns, then you must take him to a doctor.
If time alone could change so much in a person, add another parameter to it, location and multiply the impact to see how both can change a person.
Anyways, all I want to say is that I have noticed many people, including my friends changing after coming to US. That's not bad at all, 'coz I have changed myself, ya noo..!!
