Passages to India. by A. Gautam Tabitha Turner had been to India before, but she had no memory of the language. She often felt that India was in her blood. Tabitha's grandfather, James Turner I, was an officer in the East India Company, and her father, James Turner II, was born in Surat, India. Even her mother, Beatrice, was born to a British family living in Bengal. James Turner II had returned to India to establish a soft drink company and had brought his family to live there for a few years. The company had failed miserably as India had changed tremendously after the Independence.

"Why don't I remember a single word, Mother?" Tabitha often asked her mother for an easy explanation for complicated things like that. She knew that she had spent her infant years listening to Hindi lullabies from her Indian nanny. And she needed the language because she was returning to India as a volunteer for the Peace Corps.

"Maybe you will remember when you get there," Beatrice, now a middle-aged woman, replied. She had forgotten many Hindi words herself. In her memory, India had transformed. It was no longer the exotic land she had read and heard about. She had known the real India. Beatrice held her young daughter's hands and slowly spoke, "You just have to remember what you see is more real than what you have been told."

Based on this passage, the British people

A. have an affinity for literature and art.

B. have a history of being explorers.

C. respect independent decision-making.

D. possess strong family ties and bonds.