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- From: <EASWAR@PURCCVM.BITNET>
- Subject: South Indian<>Dravidian
- Message-ID: <92322.150340EASWAR@PURCCVM.BITNET>
- Sender: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (USENET News)
- Organization: Purdue University
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:03:40 GMT
- Lines: 83
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- NOT ALL SOUTH INDIANS GO WITH DRAVIDIAN THEORY.
-
- Let me explain.
-
- When Selvakumar started this thread a few months back, I sent a personal
- mail to him requesting him not to continue. I told him that I thought
- any discussion on the net could only degenerate and that it would
- eventually hurt the sensibilities of a lot of people. We see the rot
- now. And it is time someone told him to stop.
-
- Another , and actually more important reason is the 'STEREOTYPING' of an
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- average South Indian by the rest of India if this thread continues.
-
- I THINK DRAVIDIAN SUPPORTERS NEED A REALITY CHECK. It is time these
- people paused and took a stock of what they have achieved.
-
-
- CLAIM 1 : A majority of Non-Tamil south Indians do not believe in the
- Dravidian Stuff.
-
- In my discussions with a lot of non-tamil southies, I found this to be
- true.
-
- A simple way to test this hypothesis is to conduct a poll on the nets
- and I challenge the Pro-Dravidians to do so. Until then, you ask the
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- next South Indian (Non-Tamil) you meet and verify for yourself.
-
-
- CLAIM 2 : WE RESPECT AND WORSHIP LORD RAM.
-
- This, I believe, is the acid test. An average South Indian does not
- denigrate Ram. He does not condone those who burn Lord Ram's effigy on
- Ramlila (in retaliation to burning of Ravan in the north).
-
- IN FACT, HE SHUDDERS AT THE BLASPHEMY. Being the tolerant soul he is, he
- ignores them.
-
-
- Claim 3 : Dravidianism can only lead to further divisions in an already
- fragmented society.
-
-
- The caste system is based on the following propositions which apply
- equally well to Dravidianism. For example;
-
- 1. A man is born in a Brahmin/Shudra (Aryan/Dravidian).
- 2. People belonging to different Brahmin and Shudra castes { read
- Dravidian and Aryan races} are, SOMEHOW, different.
- 3. If two castes(races) are different, then they can be compared in
- terms of value/worth, somehow defined.
- 4. Thus,one caste (race) will be superior to another.
-
- { No particular order is intended above}.
-
- The rest of South India ( Non- Dravidians) can see this connection.
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- Thus, they do not support Dravidianism, fully comprehending the
- repurcussions.
-
- CLAIM 4 : { This is STRONG stuff, with some unparlimentary language.
- Sensitive Readers may avoid this}
-
- CLAIM 4:PISSING INTO A TENT YOU DON'T LIVE IN IS WRONG.
-
- You have no right to criticize my country in a destructive way from
- outside. As long as you are a part of India, you will suffer from the
- consequences, and hence that automatically forces you to be pragmatic.
- In other words, you will not piss inside the tent when you are living in
- it, because you too will have to live with the stink. Don't piss on my
- country from outside, you may be raising an issue we can very well do
- without.
-
- CLAIM 6 : RIGHTING HISTORICAL WRONGS IS DANGEROUS.
-
- This should be self-evident. This is what Hitler did and RSS says it is
- doing. Let us not repeat the mistakes of the past.
-
-
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- GROW UP, THE WORLD IS PASSING YOU BY. Nyshadham
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