“…Yet in the end, the Indo-American bridgespace is appropriated in such a way that it facilitates cultural preservation while in other instances permitting a strategic blending of change and persistence. For those Indian respondents who are seeking out what Mathew and Prashad (2000) call 'packaged information on South Asia' and 'primed paragraphs on ''Eternal Hindu values'' ', the appropriation of technology for ethnic preservation purposes is manifestly evident. For other respondents, more ambivalently positioned, the Internet becomes a portal of access to both Indian content and other (American or global) content, and therefore supports hybridised identities.…”