It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter'.
V. S. NaipaulOne isnโt born oneโs self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other peopleโs ideas โ and you have to work through it all.
V. S. Naipaul