Anjali wrote:
Yeah, I've known a couple of people who went to a particular Greek Orthodox church, and the people wouldn't even look at them or say hello. I wasn't made to feel unwelcome at an ethnic church I visited, but I think part of the church thing for them was a source of pride, not in a bad way, about their ethnic community - it wasn't just church. So I looked different and dressed differently - I just felt a little stared at, and not approached - I was just watched. And I think I heard someone make a negative comment about my clothes (I don't have Western church clothes really, and I'm too broke to buy them, so I wear Indian outfits sometimes). Though I think the people there were great from what little I saw, I don't see how I'd ever truly feel at home there since everyone spoke a different language and had to deliberately stop to politely speak in English to me. But my friends who went to the Greek church - they were ignored completely.
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