“Life for those of us in this caste is not easy. Everywhere we go people treat us like we are high school freshman. We must clean toilets, pick up dead animals from the street and clean up the waste products left behind by the sacred cattle in the city. Our only hope is having good Karma.”

What do self-sufficiency, upward mobility, work ethic, and conformity have in common? these are no longer valued attitudes they are attitudes that can easily be changed these are three perceptions that americans have of the asian lifestyle these are three of the core values that influence lifestyles in the united states they are the determinants of a component lifestyle?