Namesake

This film showed great examples of assimilation in an Indian family. The parents were very traditional and wanted their son who changed his name to "nick" to marry another indian to withhold their family traditions. Nick was americanized though, he fell for a blonde girl and did not care what his parents though as he was happy. One thing that I noticed that was a big difference in generations was the fact that his parents never showed any affection at least not in public, no kissing, hugging or holding hands. This was made a point when he took his girlfriend to meet his family and he had to remind her not to do any of these things. I believe that Nick was so americanized that he didn't even understand why, his reasoning to her was just that he never seen his parents do it.