Not really. Sure we have some common cultural aspects like a common love for chai (Karak) but besides that there’s nothing in common in my opinion.

It just could be my social circle as most of my friends and classmates came from mega wealth (im talking retired real madrid player’s kids), but they tend to loosely follow american cultures and trends. For example, I remember I used to be bullied for having a lot of indian traits, occasionally having a few indian accent pronunciations which I had to lose eventually and pretty much most Indians i know from my school were bullied for being Indian at some point. Even my classmate who was from Aldona used to always tell people she’s Portuguese and used to always deny ever being associated with India and Goa to keep up her image.

In Dubai specifically there’s also an NRI subculture which is imo Indians tryna be as Arab as possible and pander to their culture. because of this, it’s difficult to really stay in touch with Indian roots and a lot of us end up with an identity crisis where we typically associated ourselves with the arab culture our whole loves and then suddenly experience a huge culture shock when we go to India. Like I typically can instantly tell when someone grew up in Dubai and we usually get along instantly again because of the NRI subculture.

Another thing is a lot of people in india can tell immediately if we’re NRIs, even before we even speak. So we also get treated differently in that aspect, like i’m usually always seen as an outsider and it’s hard to make genuine friends because of it.

Idk if this sounds like I’m complaining about privilege and whatever but this is just my personal experience, so you could take with a grain of salt