Re: Obama
by piri on Sep 15, 2016 10:29 PM
Oh, Obama was talking about tolerance among Indians.
He was not asking Indians to meekly remain tolerant if millions of Nigerians landed up here and took many of the low end jobs here for dirt cheap wages !
That is the analogy for the great majority among the Indian American community in the US!
by immigrant Indians to make native Americans (mostly white Americans) take cognisance of the fact that they have a distinct raxcial identity, most of those Americans havent noticed yet ! Neither do they appear to promise that they are about to !
As a result, most Americans cant or dont care to distinguish between the following :
1. People of African and Indian ethnicities (in general) 2. Muxlims who wear turbans and Sikhs who wear turbans
Such is the general inconspicuousness of the Indian American community !
It would take a great deal more of effort and money for the Sikhs to make a good number of Americans realise and remember that there is a distinct religion called Sikhism.
This is hardly surprising when one considers the fact that there are significantly large immigrant communities drawn from more than a hundred countries in the USA.
For most common Americans, Asian simply means either Chinese or Japanese.
Not long ago, a member of the still in circuit and infamous Ku Klux Klan described the Indian American community thus : Those abominable little cretins from yonder east somewhere !
Re: Despite constant labour
by kapil on Sep 11, 2016 01:10 PM
what is the use of this turban in his latest world????? what if no turban and live ling others???? also cutting something from body is another useless thing... 100's of years ago men mercilessly behaved and found cutting will help reduce of some deceases but now a days that kind act not possible in most part of the world... so that cutting technology is not use now.. same for turban too... what you say???
Re: Re: Despite constant labour
by piri on Sep 11, 2016 01:13 PM
Let those who wear turbans wear them. And let those who cut their p*nises cut them. How would it matter at all ?
Re: Re: Despite constant labour
by R Chakravarti on Sep 17, 2016 08:07 AM
You may not be aware that in American hospitals, all baby boys are circumcised at birth. Nothing to do with religion.
by immigrant Indians to make native Americans (mostly white Americans) take cognisance of the fact that they have a distinct raxcial identity, most of those Americans havent noticed yet ! Neither do they appear to promise that they are about to !
As a result, most Americans cant or dont care to distinguish between the following :
1. People of African and Indian ethnicities (in general) 2. Muxlims who wear turbans and Sikhs who wear turbans
Such is the general inconspicuousness of the Indian American community !
It would take a great deal more of effort and money for the Sikhs to make a good number of Americans realise and remember that there is a distinct religion called Sikhism.
This is hardly surprising when one considers the fact that there are significantly large immigrant communities drawn from more than a hundred countries in the USA.
For most common Americans, Asian simply means either Chinese or Japanese.
Not long ago, a member of the still in circuit and infamous Ku Klux Klan described the Indian American community thus : Those abominable little cretins from yonder east somewhere !
