TESTIMONY
Mobushin on the Parity Challenges of South Asian Older Adults in the U.S.
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3 min
Mobushin, a senior member of India Home, testifies about the challenges faced by South Asian older adults in the U.S., emphasizing cultural assimilation discrepancies, housing and language access issues, and hate crimes.
- Mobushin highlights the difficulties of South Asian older adults in adapting to Western culture while retaining their own, including generational challenges and the transition from collectivism to individualism.
- He discusses the challenges related to housing, language access, and accessing benefits, as well as the issue of hate crimes against this community.
- Mobushin praises India Home for providing essential services like language application support, recreational activities, and culturally competent meals, which make the members feel at home.
- He concludes by advocating for increased funding for older adult centers to sustain these vital services.
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Good afternoon.
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Getting to the council Meme committee on aging and committee on immigration.
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I am Mobushin, a senior member of India Homes, DC's Senior Center since 2015.
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I will be testifying today on the pararity of South Asian older adult and its challenges faced including equal generation challenges.
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Housing, languages, access, accessing benefits and headcramps.
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Every nation has a culture of Islam.
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Similarly, we have our own country language in this food habit manner of eating speaking mode of behavior, social, hellos, customs, religion, or etcetera, which are part and parcel of our near culture.
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Western culture had introduced us to the people, society, education, history, and culture of the Western world.
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It has also helped to enrich our civilization by accepting the good things of Ostrand civilization.
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However, therefore, challenges are in other cultures have to echo, return it to the Western world.
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Agultation is a process through who is a person or group from one culture comes.
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To adopt practices and develop another culture.
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While still retaining their own distant culture, with the rich cultures and traditions our older adult communities come to this country.
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With there are expectations to make compromises on them and to adapt to a new set of the from entire independence to independence from collectiv collectivism to individualism from international houses through of parallelization of nuclear India.
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Ularger era coming from South Asia are you expecting to adjust to these new with the leaders support furthermore not having adequate financial resources and profession English illiteracy in this state and isolation in the place in an all in an already isolating of older other.
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For this Alundis, how this and all of the oil faced here, Sasol language access, hit client housing, accessing benefit acquisition, all kinds of things.
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We receive actionable help through India Home.
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India Home provides language and learning application and for benefit information sharing as well as enriching arts recretion and cal and cultural competent meal for coming, all of which makes us feel at home if we belong and make us feel improve.
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I am so proud to be a member of this center and feel proud to be a member of India Home.
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I asked for your advocacy and support in increasing funding to older allowed centers, such as ours to help continue providing live streaming service for people like myself.
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Thank you very much.