Most Hindus from India actually consider Guyanese Hindus a form of negro.
Quite true. Some find that exotic, and some find it degrading. Be that as it may, but this is why aiming for some sort of monolithic ethnic identity in a multi cultural land isn't possible. Those from our ancestral land(s) will never truly accept us as one of them.
Now does a Catholic suggest that you are preserving Indian culture?. Or just taking from the many cultural offerings available in Guyana, as occurs within a multi cultural society.
I never once claimed that I or Guyanese Indos are some "pure" creatures unsullied by the mud of assimilation.
I personally happen to be the descendant of Hindus, Muslims, Biharis, Uttar Pradeshis, Tamils, Dalits, Brahmins, Ahirs, and British Whites. My father is lighter than many whites. My mother darker than many blacks.
From this mass we have shaped our identity which is a Guyanese one and a Guyanese Indian one. It is ironic that Guyanese Indians possess a pan-Indian identity that still doesn't exist in modern India. It is this construct along with our continuous living memory that I would not like to see extinguished for as long as possible.
British white ancestry and yet you claim to be pan Indian. Hmmmmmm, Sounds just like another form of douglarization to me.
And yet you still have an Indian identity, even though many Indians in Guyana would claim that you aren't because you have a "white man" religion. Ignorant of course that Christianity reached India and Africa before it reached northern Europe, and indeed so long before that there were well developed orthodox Christian denominations in India and Egypt and Ethiopia before the Catholic church fully developed.
