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A shared experience moulds Indian and US students
Economic Times | 18 Nov, 2011, 10.22AM IST, Washington:
For Singmila Shimrah, a Naga from Ukhrul in Manipur, studying in the US is a "dream come true" and for Sheena Hall, an African-American, her sojourn in India was a "cultural shock" to begin with. Yet both swear by their respective experiences in the other's homeland and how it has helped them see things from a new perspective.
For Shimrah, a Fulbright student from India working on her master's degree in international relations at George Mason University's school of conflict analysis and resolution, it is a dream come true not only for her, but for her parents and her country. ".my mom, she never got to go to school because she had to drop out to take care of her younger siblings. And my dad, he studied only till tenth standard. He dreamed to study, but he could never make it," she said at an interaction with foreign media here.
Shimrah, who has for almost eight years worked with women, with street and working children and with the youth in the conflict-torn area hopes to "be a peace builder and a voice of the voiceless and be a part in bringing change," when she returns back home. "What I love most about America," she said, "is they see me for who I am, not because of my background, not because of my parents, not because of the life that I have lived. They see my potential."
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