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~~lan settlers. "In the years that I spent in Canada - 1966 to1980 I discovered that the country is hostile to its citizenswho had been born in hot, moist continents like Asia". (2)~fter becoming a United States citlzen In 1988, looking back ather life In Canada, Mukherjee recognizes herself as anexpatriate there who had clung to her ethnlc identity.traces this position of hers to the ideology of the Canadianmosaic which reinforced the stance of expatriation byrncouraglng the maintenance of the speclal characteristics anddifferences of native culture:SheI was a psychological expatrlate, though a'naturalized' Canadlan for flfteen years, slmplybecause Canada 1s a country officially hostile tothe concept of assimilation (It proclaims the virtueof 'mosaic' over the Amerlcan 'meltlng pot').Percervlng myself to be in a comfortable butunwelcomlng environment, I struggled to maintainvarious emblems of my difference. (Mukherjee 1988,2)Both In Tluer's Dauuhtec and ln Ur theprotagonists, Tara and Dlmple are expatriates, geographicallyas well as in mlnd and splrlt.They share the expatriatechdractaristlc ot belng 111 at ease botn In the native cultureand in the allen one.expdtrlates.the nr,tent;onThey represent the dllemma faced bySivaramkrlshna says about Tara and Dimple thatot thelr Identity as Indlans 1s ln constanttenslon wlth the need for ~ t s renunclatlon lf they have to