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SUMMARY:Prof. Dr. Marianne Fibiger: What does unite us? Young Tamils criti
 cal reflections on tradition and belonging in Denmark
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DESCRIPTION:Ankündigung\nIn  Denmark we have around  9\,000 Sri Lankan T
 amil Hindus\, most of which  live in the area around the cities Herning an
 d Holstebro in the Middle  and West of Jutland. The first generation came 
 to Denmark as de facto refugees  starting in the late 1980s\, but mostly i
 n the 1990s and already in 1994  the first Sri Lankan Hindu temple was con
 secrated. The need for a  religious\, cultural and social meeting place wa
 s fulfilled. Today we  have no more than three consecrated Srilankan Tamil
  Hindu temples with  either weekly or daily pūjās.\nThe  first generatio
 n seems to be generally happy having a place to meet and  to worship as th
 ey did in Sri Lanka. The second generation though\, who  were either born 
 in Denmark or came to Denmark as small children\, do  presumably not face 
 the same needs as their parents\, and their relation  to the Sri Lankan Ta
 mil tradition seems to change. They are\, as well as  their parents Tamils
  and Hindus in their self-understanding. But what  they put into these cat
 egories differs.\nWhile  the first generation in many ways tries to keep u
 p tradition as they  knew it from Sri Lanka\, the second generation does n
 ot. They reinterpret  or take out elements from tradition\, which from a t
 heoretical  perspective can be labeled the collective memory (Assmann\,  H
 ervieu-Léger)\, which both helps them engage in Danish society and bond  
 them to the tradition they share with their parents. In other words  tradi
 tion is negotiated between the society they are part of and the  identity 
 of being either a Tamil or a Hindu.\nMy  talk\, which is based on my own e
 mpirical research in Denmark\, including  around 50 semi-structured interv
 iews with young Sri Lankan Tamil  Hindus\, reading and chatting on the int
 ernet with them\, as well as  analyzing articles from the Magazine called 
 Brobyggeren (“The Bridge  builder) – a magazine made by and written to
  Tamil youngsters\, will try  to give some examples on how young Tamil Hin
 dus’ relation to cultural  memory seems to differ in comparison with the
 ir parents.
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