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- From: prabhak@giga.cs.umn.edu (Satya Prabhakar)
- Subject: Re: Some of Rajeev Gowda's actual views on Ayodhya ...
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:10:38 GMT
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- (Ramesh Venkat) writes:
- >(Satya Prabhakar) writes:
- >
- >>Though Muslims have been operating within the secular and legal frmework
- >>of the Indian constitution, they have failed the "perception
- >>test."
- >
- > Who sets the "test"/standard? Seldom do we find that the
- > perception of two individuals on any given event (or any
- > stimuli) is identical because as human beings we bring in
- > our own biases into the interpretation/perceptual process.
- > That is why there is so much conflict in the world. If only we
- > could all see the world the same way...
-
- You are absolutely correct. But there is this thing of majority
- opinion and perception. And worse, it does not lend itself to any
- "test/standard". And most often, it is not directly linked to any
- specific factual circusmtance, and therefore is extremely
- difficult to contend with on terms of principle.
-
- > If the muslims have failed the "perception test" (as you put it)
- > in the eyes of *some* Hindus, then by the same token *some*
- > Hindus have failed the test in the muslim eye as well. The
-
- Definitely. But the point is this: the Hindu perception of Muslims
- is likely to affect Muslims more than the Muslim perceptino of Hindus
- because of the sheer fact that Hindus far outnumber Muslims. The same
- holds for Indians in US. What Americans think of us affects us much more
- than what we think of them.
-
- > The following quote captures the complexity of the human perceptual
- > process:
- >
- > "Every perceiver is, as it were, to some degree a nonrepresentational
- > artist, painting a picture of the world that expresses his individual
- > view of reality." [Krech, Crutchfield and Ballachey (1962), p.12]
-
- Correct. And we have to guard ourselves against these perception sof
- others.
-
- Satya Prabhakar
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