Massive outcry - I mean outbreak of hypocrisy

taipan wrote:

buckSH wrote:I had to leave for office. And thus needed to be excused.

You had a dump?

Unlike Zat I usually do it before I forum.

Not during it, as in his case.

buckSH wrote:even on a forum such as this, the aussie gets pretty hyper and aggressive and quickly gets down to verbal abuse and turd-flinging. This surely must be the mirror image of their behaviour in their own societies.

I leave the forum to decide this for themselves. While I excuse myself from this uncivil discussion.

Less than ninety minutes later...

buckSH wrote:

horace wrote:pot plant...

no Bucky comment on the 8000+ dowry murders per year...are the offenders ever prosecuted ??

Yes, they are.

FYI even a mere suggestion of verbal or physical harassment by in-laws if filed in any Indian police station means that a case can be filed against the in-laws and husband and they get arrested without any anticipatory bail under section 498a.

buckSH wrote:I had to leave for office. And thus needed to be excused.

A superb backflip! Nines from most judges, 7.5 from the Pakistani judge, and 16 out of ten from the Indian judge...

and the aussie judge ?

Is looking for a noose to lynch you with. Stand by...

taipan wrote:

buckSH wrote:I had to leave for office. And thus needed to be excused.

You had a dump?

So does the bucket get a little emptier when that happens?

Fuller, I would have thought.

Can it get any fuller?

I'm sure there's room to wedge a race card in there somewhere.

I wish I was good at Photoshop.

Or could be bothered.

Meh, I don't have the latest episode of TAAHM to keep me amused on a Friday night.

TLE's watching an Elvis movie marathon...

Thankyou, thankyou very much. Ah huh.

Yeah.

Why is the lass not on the Elvis train to Parkes??

Don't tell me....she's too busy watching an Elvis marathon.

Parkes - 3 hours drive up the road. Elvis train runs Sydney to Parkes, a 5 hour drive to get on the train, which then takes about 4 hours to get there...

Fair call. I defer to your greater knowledge of the stock routes.

And besides, why go to Parkes to see a bunch of people impersonating one of the greatest entertainers ever? That'd be kind of like going to a 20-over a side match and expecting it to provide the thrills, drama, changes in mood, and excitement of a Test match.

Well, not my cuppa tea, Ye Old Emperor (yes!!! I spelt it right), but some live for it.

Which? The Elvis impersonator, or the twenty-over stuff?

Elvis.

Thank you very much.

Prejudices are present everywhere, no human being is exempt. Some manage them better or atleast make sure that they don't turn into actions. For most it takes a lifetime to get over these.

By extension racism and other predudices exist in every country. When it comes to India there are some extreme prejudices in people's minds driven by cultural, regional, appearance and religious differences.

For example even today there are movements in Bombay to get rid of people from the North and South. These are not exactly fringe movements either. In places like Bihar caste related incidents are still common place. That said India has only been a free country for about 60 years. For centuries she had been under invasions and colonisations by various powers, not just European. The legacy of this is not easy to shake up.

Thankfully India went with the right constitution based on democratic secular values. This is a tribute to the overall cultural tolernce that the majority of the population pocess.

In the last 20 years India has been able to break free from the legacy and is progressing in many aspects, some faster than others. As with Maslow's needs hierarchy some of the basic essentials need to be fulfilled before progressing to some of the higher level needs.

Coming to Australia, in comparison to US and UK there are very few extreme elements, very much a fringe minority. So any attempt to project racism as an institutionalised practice is just rubbish.

The problem I have seen with Australia is that the Anglo Saxon middle majorty has a problem in facing up to some truths. This is both across the population and media. Whether it is about the treatment meted to the native aborigines or "boorish" behaviour of their player fraternity.
It took decades for the Australian mainstream to acknowledge that things like the "Stolen Generation" were just wrong and even longer to tender an apology to those populations.

Under this background I am not surprised that there is denial and the refusal to accept that there are racist elemetns in their community.

As it goes these things always take the Anger - Denial - Acceptance - Remedy route. That is how the human psyche works.

You forgot 'bargaining', Josh. And 'depression'.

This thread has legs.

Josh, top work.