even more hilarious¬! - scroll down to read to hear some first-class racism straight from india via the indian capitalist. ( see the comments on the post below)
( i wonder what the indian blogosphere would have to say about his comments by the way..seeing as he”s making blanket statements about india and indians im sure they ought to be interested..)
apparently since i”m “asian” i am “culturally inferior” - isn”t that brilliantly funny? The poor thing couldn”t deal with the fact that not all of “us” have inferiority complexes so we must needs be inculcated with one.
Great!
actually i suppose he couldn”t deal with the fact that not all people think in conventional prejudiced monocausal linear terms e.g. black/white ; capitalism/communism etc. etc. and i suppose he can”t understand how differing economic systems aren”t necessarily not going to display the same social problems i.e. power and distribution of power, dogma and all the rest of it.
Human nature is interesting: a recurring theme appears to be : ” if i suffer, i want to know that others are suffering too. and if they think they aren”t suffering - bullshit! surely that”s not true..they must just be fooling themselves because of course they suffer, they suffer in the same way i do..” ( replace suffer with “ i think this way” and it works as well)
i think this is all fascinating - providing so much material for my future Phd. thesis.
hi sonia, nice blog.
thank you cimurai.
The vicious attack that you launched on me at the guardian blogs was completely unjustified. First you failed to understand what I was driving at, and then you go on to attribute motives to me that I never expressed.
Here is a link to a new post that I have made on my blog. Take a look, I have clarified my position:
http://anoopverma.blogspot.com/2005/10/two-indian-traits-that-screwed-india.html
And I am not able to post anymore on the Guardian. Maybe they have done something to their website to block my capitalist comments. ‘So much for free speech’.
hey Ic you poor thing, you only get as good as you give. also it wouldn’t suprise me if you aren’t allowed to post on the Guardian blog as frankly you were making racist comments - which you should realize its not easy to get away with - especially when its written down for the whole world to see.
(even ‘brown’ people - why should you think that political correctness only applies to ‘white’ people?) Freedom of speech doesn’t include incitement to racial hatred - which is what you were resorting to when you didn’t agree with people’s views. if you can’t have a grown up debate without crying like a little boy when someone turns the table on you - thats a shame, its too bad.
Aww
“apparently since i’m ‘asian’ i am ‘culturally inferior’ - isn’t that brilliantly funny?”
Well, ‘asians’ ARE ‘culturally inferior’ when the western idea of the sine qua non of existence and cognition is taken as the sine qua non of cultural standards worthy of emulation.
Secondly, we shouldn’t take the whole of asia as one entity. There is a universe of difference, for instance, between the archetypal Indian and the archetypal Chinese. One is culturally programmed to subject much thought to facts whilst the other subjects facts to imperially decreed thought. One has been culturally vibrant, dynamic and ever-changing(the present excepted), whilst the other has had its mind bound and bonsai-ed since the Qin dynasty. The other cultures in Asia are largely influenced by both the Indian and Chinese variant.
A perusal of indian/chinese history, philosophies, art, architecture, religions, etc would go some way in validating these points.
of course you’re right inquisitor re: the whole of asia as one entity - and obviously the same applies to any idea or concept of ‘western’ - or ‘white’ or whatever.
the persistence of the concept of homogeneity is incredible. people seem to want to insist on regarding their ‘culture’ as a bounded entity which is ‘pure’ and hasn’t been ‘unsullied’ - in this context any notion of heterogeneity is dismissed as that would mess with the ‘purity’ issue. oh we couldn’t have that now could we?
all this despite historical evidence to the contrary.