![]() Karim deems these qualities those of a recent immigrant, and to counteract his embarrassment from his father, Karim mostly rejects the idea of being Indian. ![]() Dad still struggles to locate himself in the city, despite having lived there for so long, and constantly asks for directions. Furthermore, despite the fact that Dad embraced his new home, Karim finds his father embarrassingly Indian. Because of this, at the start of the novel, Karim thinks of himself as English more than anything else. To this point, he mentions that Dad spent the last twenty years trying to be as English as possible, and he has no interest in ever returning to India. Karim characterizes where his family lives in the suburbs as a locale that's inarguably English, despite the ethnicity of its inhabitants. ![]() Because of his Indian heritage, Karim often finds that he's unable to fully embrace his English identity while he's simultaneously forced to confront uncomfortable aspects of Indian culture-or what others believe to be Indian culture. ![]() Karim begins his narration by introducing himself as, "an Englishman born and bred, almost." His "almost" refers to the fact that his father, Haroon, emigrated from India twenty years earlier and married an Englishwoman. ![]()
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