Originally posted by: malikakas
I agree with you on most of what you have said in this thread but I disagree with this comment. There is a big difference in how the religion of the majority is treated in India vs how it is treated in other countries. I grew up in Canada and the UK in the 90s. Christianity is the mainstay religion and it was ubiquitous part of the culture. Prayers in school, nativity pageants etc that most of us participated in. Even the UK parliament has bishops initiating the procedures etc. There are many things that are changing now in order to be more inclusive. Alabama dropped its ban on teaching yoga in schools but even now there is a caveat that you can't use the words namaste or chant etc in order to not offend the majority religion. However India also had a ban on yoga in schools but it was in order to not offend the minority religions. So I feel like its not comparable because the starting points are very different. Most people that move out of India make an effort to integrate into the local culture. But why does that mean you can't call out the inequality of the way India was partitioned and designed?
I've been talking about the way India was partitioned throughout. And I am of the opinion that because of Congress trying to appease the Muslims who decided to stay, we got different justice systems and preferential treatment of certain communities which led at least partially to the current state of things. Corruption became rampant. Nothing was working for a large chunk of the population.
I also disagree with the idea that BJP has done anything for India. They took advantage of existing problems and use them to maintain power. They use religion again and again to distract from problems. They in fact instigate problems.
I believe you misunderstood my point with re:NRIs.
They're not merely calling out the way India was partitioned, which I agree with.
There were a couple of people here who used that as a starting point. They were then clearly using Mughals and Brits to basically bash Muslims and Christians because *hey, it's true Mughals and Brits were invaders,* and therefore, Muslims and Christians...
You see where that's going? It is bigotry, plain and simple, using the ethnicity of the invaders as a smokescreen for hating on people who follow the same religion.
These same people are the ones who leave *harmless and welcoming* India and move to the Middle East and Christian majority countries to live among majorities of the same religions which are apparently terribly racist and bigoted. Which is why I call them hypocrites.
For them, India = Hindu. Sorry. India belongs to everyone of Indian ethnicity and nationality. SRK is not Pakistani or any other stani. These NRIs (including me) are less Indian than him. They don't have the right to claim he's less Indian or ask him to go to Pakistan.
Then there were the comments about Gandhi and the nonviolent movement and violent struggle being better to attain freedom. 😆 Gimme a break. Sardar Patel supported the Nazis! THE FRIGGING NAZIS! He might have done it under the principle of the enemy of my enemy is my friend, but THE NAZIS! And the Japs? My God! They were brutal to even the Chinese and the Koreans. What do these Sardar supporters imagine the Japs would've done to India had they actually managed to get through to Bengal?! Of all the dumb ideas to support, this had to be the dumbest. Join the more cruel masters!😆
And the people who support violence and bloodshed usually never volunteer their own blood. Since you're Canadian, you might be paying attention to the build up in Ukraine. The Cheneys and the Bidens aren't going to fight. It's the ordinary people. It's similar in India. The same NRIs who believe Indians should've fought are the ones who fled even an independent India.😆 But they're very quick to volunteer other people.
Anyway, that's it from me on the topic.
Also, I grew up in India. Hinduism is as ubiquitous there as Christianity is in the West, from schools which do Saraswati Pooja to Hindu customs in parliament. I don't have any peeves against it, though. Because majority culture will usually be followed. That's just the nature of humanity. As long as that doesn't get in the way of administering law equally for everyone, I'm good.
Edited by HearMeRoar - 3 years ago
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