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- Subject: Re: INDIAN CULTURE - Subservient
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- Date: Monday, 16 Nov 1992 02:55:37 EST
- References: <1992Nov13.010214.11313@massey.ac.nz><Bxo0A7.LC7@ucunix.san.uc.edu> <1992Nov16.013812.17579@massey.ac.nz>
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- Why do I have the feeling that people who agree with each other at some
- deep level, and who should be friends, are fighting un-necessarily?
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- It is true that ours is a great culture - or more precisely, our culture
- has a great past. It is also true that we have fallen on bad days and
- instead of building on our past, we try to choose betwen mindlessly obeying
- our ancestors and mindlessly obeying the Westerners. Perhaps this is
- a consequence of a 700 year rule by a Muslim minority, followed
- by two hundred years of British rule. But some signs of decay are visible
- already in India after the death of Harsha-Vardhan and that cannot be
- explained through foreign invasion.
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- However, the vitality of the Indian community in the US is a good sign.
- Perhaps we are beginning to come into our own after all. Let us take the
- best from our own past and the best from the West. Let us reject what is
- destructive in our past and what is destructive in the West. And we
- can recover once more the great creativity of the Indian mind.
-
- Rohit Parikh
-