i remember when the temple first came up in the 1980s. there was absolutely nothing around it, just empty land. then a lot of houses were built which seem to surround it. i am amazed the temple has found enough land around it to expand into. anyway, i hope there isn't a lot of anti-hindu sentiment expressed by the locals (surely, they will trot out doniger's book in support of their position) and that the expansion does go forward.
i remember vaguely that the sikh gurudwara in fremont also ran into zoning difficulties. amazingly, there are no problems when indian mohammedans or christists set up their centers. i guess they have godfathers. although why the indian christists don't feel welcome in mainstream churches and feel the need to set up their own is a mystery -- unless they are treated as second-class citizens by whites, which is entirely possible.
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Churches in USA and in India run along segregated lines. Almost no Chinese or Korean goes to an American church. And in India, they have a Dalit churches and upper-caste ones.
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