1.

How are the young protagonists of the film Unindian “interstitial ethnic
beings”. To what extent do they adopt a strategic essentialism in their day
to day lives in Australia?
2. To what extent is it irrelevant to talk about an “original” culture and
“Australian culture”. Does the Indian community in Australia have a
discrete fixed and homogenous culture? Is the majority culture fixed?
How is the Indian community in Australia shown to be “unstable and
changeable with its cohesion complicated by intergenerality, by various
degrees of identification and relation to a homeland and by different
extents of assimilation and distinctions from majority culture”.
3. How does being Indian in Australia mean not just cultural inheritance but
cultural construction as well.
4. How do the protagonists of the film receive refigure and rewrite cultural
traditions.
5. Indians in Australia can be considered the Other of majority culture but
within Indian culture in Australia there are wide variations and
heterogeneity. Discuss
6. Relate this paragraph to the film: “Asian American discussions of ethnicity
are far from uniform and consistent, rather these discussions contain a
wide spectrum of articulations that includes at one end the desire for an
identity represented by a fixed profile of ethnic traits and at another
challenges to the very notions of identity and singularity which celebrate
ethnicity as a fluctuating composition of differences, fluctuations and
incommensurabilities.