Throughout her career in the adult industry, Leone dabbled in mainstream television, and eventually dropped p*** for good in 2011. Moving to India to pursue a career in Bollywood, she said she “knew nothing about young India,” and expected a less than warm reception.
What she found shocked her. “The Indians in America are completely different than the Indians here, they live in a bubble there, they have tied themselves to backward India, while India has moved forward but they are still somewhere back so many years,” she told Indiatimes.
"Because they are in such a foreign land, they are trying to hold on [to] the ideologies or cultural values, their religion, they are trying to hold on whatever they can, so they don’t lose it,” she continued. “I had gone through so many hate mails, so much negativity from the Indian community there at a very young age.”
Leone’s experience of the Indian community in America is not an unusual one. Oftentimes, immigrant communities cling to what they consider the traditional values of their homelands, even as these homelands modernise and move on.
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