In Mira Nair's film The Namesake, the disparate cultures of India and America affirm the binary paradigm of "one » and “the other”, manifesting the domination of one over the other and its impact in influencing and causing cultural and identity problems. The collision of the two cultures constitutes a process of attempting to construct an identity and destroy an ethnic identity, with different factors to take into account such as space and other socio-cultural codes. This film about American Indians also shows the concept of model minority image, the norms and expectations placed on Asian Americans. The namesake embodies the cultural and identity issues of an Asian American, particularly Indian Americans, depicting the experiences of intersection of contrasting cultures, marginalization, generational conflict, and identity crisis . In Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Making Asian American Differences, Lowe argues that the concept of Asian American is crucial in itself because it highlights and intensifies the marginalization of the Asian community in the United States. She asserts that Asian American identity becomes “an organizing tool” to formulate Asians in America as a homogeneous entity, which for her is highly refutable (511). The film adaptation of The Namesake shows this heterogeneity of the Asian communities that Lowe supports, recounting the experience of Asian Americans of another ethnicity in the United States: Indians. The film shows Lowe's argument about the multiplicity and heterogeneity of the Asian American experience, far from the usual stereotypical idea that Asian Americans only fit Chinese and Japanese Americans . The Namesake by Mira Nair proves the multiplicity of culture in the context of Asian America...... middle of article ......entity of Indian Americans and the different factors, socio-cultural or spatio-temporal, which affect the generational conflicts of immigrants. It shows the impact of Western culture on the structuring of different cultural questions of identity. Works Cited Brennan, Sue. “Time, Space, and National Belonging in the Namesake: Redrawing South Asian American Citizenship in the Shadow of 9/11.” » Journal of Transnational American Studies 3.1 (2011): 1-22 Jung, Russell. Contemporary Asian American Communities: Intersections and Divergences. Ed. Linda Trinh Vo and Rick Bonus. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002. Lowe, Lisa. “Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Asian-American Differences.” Immigrant Deeds: On Asian-American Cultural Politics. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1996.Zhou, Min. Are Asian Americans becoming white? Context, 3 (1): 64-69, 2004.