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REQUEST FROM AN INDIAN
by nithyajeejo @ 2008-03-17 - 10:10:04

REQUEST FROM AN INDIAN

I am a 14 year 9 standard student of Kerala. Like every Indian, I am also very proud to be an Indian. There are certain moments which we all feel a great patriotism towards our nation. I think that we are very lucky to have such an excellent opportunity to live in India, which is a storehouse of tradition, which is rich in different cultures, which is flying to highs and highs.
Now a day we could find certain demerits in our development. However, there are some moments of pride for us; there are also the moments that we feel shame on us. It is our responsibility to look after the tourists to our place. It is not only the duty of government officials but also it is the duty of every Indian citizen. However, what happened some days ago in Goa? What happened in Kochi and Mumbai on the New Year night? This is not only the condition with Goa, Mumbai or Kerala. Nevertheless, in every corner of India it is happening daily. Is this the way to behave to visitors to our place (not only to the visitor’s but also to the natives)? Is it our culture?
Westernization is good but only up to a limit and it is not good for a traditional and incredible country like India to cross its limit. We must understand that our country cannot be another America or Europe. We are rich with varieties of culture and tradition, then why should we adopt the cultures of other countries? Keep in mind the cause for the declination of the Dark Continent Africa. It remains dark because once it tried to copy from others.
There were a time when we (especially teenagers) would like to watch Hindi movies and songs. But the situation had changed. Now, we cannot even open the T.V. We feel ashamed of ourselves by watching any film fares or stage programs. We (especially bollywood actress) must take into account that we are not going to gain anything than losing by expressing our beauty. There is nothing in external appearance. You will be more beautiful than the day
if your mind and heart is filled with the lights of kindness, love and tolerance.
All of us make India pride. Our sports stars, industrialists, artisans, scientists, doctors, politicians, teacher’s, student’s, peasants, traders etc. are part of the winning team of India. However, making India pride should not be by destroying its culture. Once sari was our traditional dress (now it is only for name), now a day it has made in to a worst kind of dress. Try to call up your memories. Is it the same India where the best symbols of women?

like Rani Lakshmi Bhai, Sultana Razia, Vijaylakshmi Pandit, Annie Basant, Indira Gandhi had lived.
Earlier if it was Jai Hind that echoed all over India now it is Chak De India. No problem whatever it is. It also makes Indians Pride.
We had our ancestors raising their voice to increase the women’s status in the society. Now it has increased but not in the way that our ancestor has thought. If it was home that most of the women spend their time earlier now it is night clubs or bars.
I wonder How India can change like this. It is not only them who are going to suffer it is we Indian’s.
We are not ready to bear the risk of westernization. Westernization should not lead our young generation to a wrong path. The future of India is in the hands of youngsters like me. To build up a young generation that represents the living wonders of real tradition, culture and sincere guards of democracy,
every Indian must be careful in their duties (especially cine artists because they are the one’s most attracted by the young generation).
Being a teenage girl, I am kindly requesting to every Indian to raise their voice against the evils existing in our society. Governments should please ban or take powerful actions against the films or any such actions or activities that spoils our culture.
No other cultures of the world are equal to ours. None of them can replace ours.

By Nithya Jeejo
9 standard student
Nirmala Bhavan H.S. School
Trivandrum -3
Kerala
email: nithyajeejo@gmail.com

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silentplanetsilentplanet [Member]
2008-03-18 @ 17:15

Interesting article...Westernisation, I often wonder now that we are global why the west isn't being more Easternised!

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evilhippyevilhippy pro
2008-03-19 @ 08:16

It is - but in more subtle ways.
Yoga, buddhism, and Indian takeways: three hugely important parts of Western culture now, all safely and easily assimilated into the whole because we had the financial and therfor the most powerful head start in the past 4 centuries: a society where recently individual people could embrace what they liked, and the whole time since about 1650AD a place economically preferable to most others, to any others in fact, so a great many people would migrate there and happily share their culture and backgrounds in a dominant society: we (the West) took what we wanted and are richer for it.

Even as the balance of power wasn't so clear, we still underpinned Western society with classic Eastern cultural elements: Chess, for example. Been playing that in Europe for over 1000 years now.

Now of course things are changing, and we can only guess at how they will go...

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I'm not sure a complete rebuttal of Western culture is possible, and probably not necessary anyway: a better thing to do would be to preserve rather than enter into a conflict, no matter how passive in its action :)

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silentplanetsilentplanet [Member]
2008-03-19 @ 10:49

Point taken, I'd agree...although they are pretty minor, I don't know anyone who does yoga, I don't know any buddhists and the Indian takeaway occurs when pissed at 1am on a Sunday morning, haha. Although, it would be fair to say, I don't move in the most cultured of circles - but then not many people do, I guess.

I don't really like how the east is starting to take our way of life as their own. The western way seems to be dominated by greed and material aspirations (resulting in pollution of the earth and mind!). I'd prefer the simple life. Well, I do live a simple life, but I'm the kind of weirdo who'd rather be poor and happy then rich and a bit of a wanker.

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evilhippyevilhippy pro
2008-03-19 @ 13:24

Funny thing, I hardly know anyone who doesn't do yoga! Okay that's an exaggeration, but I know two yoga teachers, my Mother and at least a dozen of my friends go to classes every week or more often, and plenty of acquaintances go too - some surprising examples, one hard and heavy biker of the Hell's Angels ilk, and my ultra-cynical friend Reuben who went to one class, got hooked, is now going to India twice a year for more and more training courses!

Indian food is as popular and arguably more so than much British food - `curry` always gets voted the nation's favourite dish every time Channel 4 or some newspaper or magazine or other does one of their tedious surveys.

Not upt-to-speed on many bona fide Buddhists - only know one, ina fact - but everyone who ever went to college was quite interested ;o) in terms of half-arsed Buddhists who like the principles and apply those that help, but still go out and get drunk and everything, I probably know maybe 50 buddhist-likers, but hardly solid adherents.

I don't particularly like the way the East is adopting Western culture, but, to change that we could only change Western culture. Ont he other hand, it is fair enough to let everyone have a crack at everything, and I don't think it's fair to say that materialism pollutes the Earth and the Mind, althoguh in many cases it unfortunately does one, either or both :(

Hmm. Well, I'm in India, in Kerala as it happens, att he moment and have been around the place for almost 5 months now, got some stuff to see over the next few months in Laos and Indonesia and other places I ahven't thought of yet I'm sure, so I'll keep a back-burning analytic eye out for the way people view their culture as opposed, or in harmony with Western ways...

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silentplanetsilentplanet [Member]
2008-03-19 @ 13:39

Sounds safe, mate! Have a great time :)

"I don't think it's fair to say that materialism pollutes the Earth and the Mind, althoguh in many cases it unfortunately does one, either or both"

Ok, maybe I was being a bit too extreme. I didn't mean to knock all the people working hard for a better life for their family. All I can say though is in a former life I used to be a saleman, so was at the cutting edge of it all. In that world all that matters is money and we're told to make it at the expense of pretty much everything else.

Of course not all salesmen and their managers are bad, money obesessed people, I hope I show that. But, mate, you should see some of them. All they care about is profit, it's an extremly ruthless game. Especially so from the inside, if you don't make enough cash, they'll make your life very hard, this applies all the way up the management structure - in my company at least. You see it turn good people into money machines becasue they're stressed out, then this phillosophy seems to permiate every aspect of their lives and they just become more selfish. Scary.

I think I'll follow your example and bugger off out of here for awhile. Need to get the cash first though. Ah shucks - catch 22!

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evilhippyevilhippy pro
2008-03-20 @ 03:54

Sales, yes, I have been there too in a small, non-career-building way - selling bad things to normal people, things inferior in every way to what they were already using: not good for your conscience! And accordingly I was shit at that place and had to leave, only found one place that was worthwhile and actually presented a good deal to the prospects, and I was pretty darned good at that place, though I do say so :>>

On a career level (I was just a grunt door-knocker for various firms) I'm sure it must be quite disturbing to see people adopt that kind of mindset, I can only infer from what I've seen in the various media about all that, and that seems quite distressing :-/
I think if more people were less impressionable, they would be able to see their own way through these careers without becoming profit-slaves, but when education in these affairs arrives before any real thought has been given to it i.e. as soon as anyone needs money of their own (pretty damn young, well before leaving school, for example) it's not surprising that people value money over everything else; and allow it over time and constant reinforcement of the `greed ideal` to become and end unto itself, rather than just a useful tool to be used for one's pleasure, as it should be.

And that happens just as much in the East as the West; I'd even venture to say that it is prominent in China which is Communist, but of course there is always someone leading the Communists, and they need advisors, and Generals, and, well, "all (animals) people are equal, but some are more equal than others" ;)
It is certainly the case here in India that profit-seeking and power-seeking has been just as much a part of life for as long as we have had civilised society int he West. The Caste system along with the almost totally universal practice of arranged marriages perfectly illustrates the power-grabbing and ruthless consolidation of status and wealth in this culture.

But hey - whaddya gonna do, huh? If only Communism wasn't so popular with the poor and capitalism so popular with the rich, the world would more or less find a happy equilibrium for all just by itself. Someone needs to develop some cunning neurotoxin that eliminates both of these emotional reactions from occurring, we need some Evil Scientists in here!!

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silentplanetsilentplanet [Member]
2008-03-20 @ 11:33

Yes...I was watching a programme about Indian rat eaters. They were very angry at the huge divide between the castes, and since they were forced to eat rats - I'm not surprised!

I have a degree in chemistry if that helps :))

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evilhippyevilhippy pro
2008-03-20 @ 13:58

But are you evil with it? :VV

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silentplanetsilentplanet [Member]
2008-03-21 @ 12:10

Door knocker...that's hardcore!

I bet winters were a nightmare?!

I liked to stay in my office with my kettle, comfy seat and computer :-D

Although I expect the hardship you endured reaped finantial rewards beyond my own.

Ummm...Evil...well depends what you regard as evil :D

I don't think I'm evil, but maybe that's a delusion.

The Cobra group - now they're propper evil ;)

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evilhippyevilhippy pro
2008-03-21 @ 16:23

Hahaha, Cobra Group, however did you tell? :D Yes my first place where I received my sales training ("Think dark, dark thoughts. Darker. Darker! Kill some babies then come back to me.
Okay. Killed the babies? Good, good. Eeeeeexcellent.
Now, think dark thoughts....okay so to sell this crap you need to play on fear, fear, fear, and fear, this is how you...") which is excellent, world class stuff, based on good psychological principals and everything but it seems I wasn't evil enough and couldn't sell their rubbbish, so I took what I learned elsewhere!

I was perhaps being mildly evil on occasion in my tactics, but it was all to good ends and I managed to do extremely well with something that was a actually an advantage to the poor long-suffering customers!!

Still got all the same abuse of course (and the same Winters), but turning an abuser around and getting them to sign up is immensely gratifying :)

Yes, Winters did indeed suck I suppose, but still I managed remarkably well. When you're kept as busy as we were (or, at one other place where we could go home as soon as we hit our minimum daily quota which I once did in about 35 minutes, the Winters were not quite so important) amazingly I hardly noticed.
Running like a mad thing up and down the streets keeps you pretty warm!!

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Still the Cobra group are pretty nasty pieces of work, yes! Nice to take that and do something good with it though :)

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kristhekrishnakristhekrishna [Member]
2008-05-09 @ 14:19

excellent...carry on.....

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nithyajeejonithyajeejo [Member]
http://elegantnithya.blog.co.uk
2008-05-10 @ 09:43

thank you for the comment
by Nitya

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