Assignment 3 - Sanat Dharwad

 Every two years my family and I go to India to visit both sides of the family, staying in India for about a month. We were planning on going this year, but those plans were cut short by the pandemic. I haven’t ever been connected to my heritage, but seeing the important cultural sites and just living in India seemed to help me establish a kind of cultural identity I lacked, and still lack. Trips to India also put in perspective the privilege I have. When I was young and stayed with my relatives from my father's side, we lived right next to a family who lived solely out of a small cement hut that didn’t look like it had plumbing or electricity at all. That popped the bubble of my childish worldview that everyone was fine and happy. It shaped my worldview to thinking that some people are just not as lucky as others, and that the world isn’t just.