ice-breaker

Indians do not assert! well this statement to my surprise came from an outsider..as it so happened, the vice-prez of our team from america paid us a visit a few days back..amongst all he said this one truely struck a chord with me..no indian i bet would like to hear this, but only aftr 2 days i realised how hauntingly true it was.. sending out emails and taking conference calls are things i do all the time these days..and yesterday i was a part of one such call..it was a team meeting wherein the foreigners decided to play an ice-breaker game..and the deal was that each one of us was to tell our 'fav dessert'! so while the foreigners went for apple pie, blueberry muffins etc etc..the surprisingly sad part was that the indians in the meeting too followed their lead..finding more comfort and taste in brownie with ice cream, lemon cheese cake....and then they asked me..i told them it was a gulab jamun..though i had to repeat that twice and finally a foreigner had to explain his fellows what it was..but it made me feel a sense of pride which even aftr so many yrs of independence is subdued...it is high time we start representing ourselves with shoulders held high and feel proud of the rich culture we'v grown up in..why are we so unsure of ourselves?..why r we the first ones to become all foreign? is this globalization!??!