EAST INDIANS IN WASHINGTON (D.C.) or ACCULTURATION STRATEGIES
The paper deals with very important phenomenon in the postcolonial age «Asian Immigrant in the West» based on a short story «One Out Of Many» written by Nobel laureate V.S.Naipaul. He is widely regarded as the greatest living writer in the English language. Naipaul was born in 1932 to a Brahmin family that had immigrated to Trinidad from India at the end of the 19th century. The young man escaped from Trinidad to England, where he attended University College in Oxford. Beginning in the 1950s Naipaul's home became England where he further explored his literary gifts. Trinidadian by birth, East Indian by descent and British by choice he is known for his penetrating analyses of alienation and exile. The writer has been awarded a number of literary prizes, among them the coveted Man Booker Prize for perhaps his finest sustained writing «In A Free State». The book consists of a novel with two framing narratives and two short stories. One of the stories portraits the life of Santosh, a Bombay servant who ventures on a diplomatic expedition with his master to Washington D.C. The purpose of the work is an attempt to discover the changes of identity features of the immigrant who emigrated from India to the United States of America. This research reveals the adaptation stages the East Indian immigrant goes through and the acculturation strategies he adopts in a new cultural context. Special attention is devoted to the question of the meaning of freedom for the inhabitant who had developed in the traditional India when he attempts to live in an American society.