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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:Poster\nIn  Denmark we have around  9\,000 Sri Lankan Tamil H
 indus\, most of which  live in the area around the cities Herning and Hols
 tebro in the Middle  and West of Jutland. The first generation came to Den
 mark as de facto refugees  starting in the late 1980s\, but mostly in the 
 1990s and already in 1994  the first Sri Lankan Hindu temple was consecrat
 ed. The need for a  religious\, cultural and social meeting place was fulf
 illed. Today we  have no more than three consecrated Srilankan Tamil Hindu
  temples with  either weekly or daily pūjās.\nThe  first generation seem
 s to be generally happy having a place to meet and  to worship as they did
  in Sri Lanka. The second generation though\, who  were either born in Den
 mark or came to Denmark as small children\, do  presumably not face the sa
 me needs as their parents\, and their relation  to the Sri Lankan Tamil tr
 adition seems to change. They are\, as well as  their parents Tamils and H
 indus in their self-understanding. But what  they put into these categorie
 s differs.\nWhile  the first generation in many ways tries to keep up trad
 ition as they  knew it from Sri Lanka\, the second generation does not. Th
 ey reinterpret  or take out elements from tradition\, which from a theoret
 ical  perspective can be labeled the collective memory (Assmann\,  Hervieu
 -Léger)\, which both helps them engage in Danish society and bond  them t
 o the tradition they share with their parents. In other words  tradition i
 s negotiated between the society they are part of and the  identity of bei
 ng either a Tamil or a Hindu.\nMy  talk\, which is based on my own empiric
 al research in Denmark\, including  around 50 semi-structured interviews w
 ith young Sri Lankan Tamil  Hindus\, reading and chatting on the internet 
 with them\, as well as  analyzing articles from the Magazine called Brobyg
 geren (“The Bridge  builder) – a magazine made by and written to Tamil
  youngsters\, will try  to give some examples on how young Tamil Hindus’
  relation to cultural  memory seems to differ in comparison with their par
 ents.
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