i am a hindu living in louisiana.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Hindu () refers to any person who regards themselves as culturally, ethnically, or religiously adhering to aspects of Hinduism. It has historically been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for people indigenous to South Asia. The historical meaning of the term \"Hindu\" has evolved with time. Starting with the Persian and Greek references to the land of the Indus in the 1st millennium BCE through the texts of the medieval era, the term Hindu implied a geographic, ethnic or cultural identifier for people living in the Indian subcontinent around or beyond the Sindhu (Indus) river. By the 16th century, the term began to refer to residents of the subcontinent who were not Turkic or Muslims. The historical development of Hindu self-identity within the local South Asian population, in a religious or cultural sense, is unclear. Competing theories state that Hindu identity developed in the British colonial era, or that it developed post-8th century CE after the Islamic invasion and medieval Hindu-Muslim wars. A sense of Hindu identity and the term \"Hindu\" appears in some texts dated between the 13th and 18th century in Sanskrit and regional languages. The 14th- and 18th-century Indian poets such as Vidyapati, Kabir and Eknath used the phrase \"Hindu dharma\" (Hinduism) and contrasted it with \"Turaka dharma\" (Islam).\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I am Hindu and I live in South Louisiana."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The aspect of Hinduism  refers to any person who regards themselves as culturally, ethnically, or religiously "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Hindus believe in truth and kharma and the existance of a supreme being"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Hinduism has been called the oldest religion in the world, and some practitioners and scholars refer to it as \"\", \"the eternal tradition"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes and it precedes christianity by thousands of years"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Scholars regard Hinduism as a fusion or synthesis of various Indian cultures and traditions"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Many view it as a philosophy or way of life instead of a religion"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Although Hinduism contains a broad range of philosophies, it is linked by shared concepts, recognisable rituals, cosmology, shared textual resources"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Hindus believe that Brahman is present in every person as the eternal spirit or soul, called the atman."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "This \"Hindu synthesis\" started to develop between 500 BCE and 300 CE"}]