The Hindus-An Alternative History

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I wonder how much they are influenced by where they live. Most desis in the US are whiter than white, as we call them.

example:

I wouldn't consider them as representative of anything but American values

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Christians are much more reluctant to see anything as a metaphor.

 

Whiter than white refers to acting white not skin colour. It harks back to our name for the English, the goras

 

Most of the ones I interact with regularly have lived in the US for substantially less time than you did. So either they're representative of (a certain slice of) Indian culture, or you aren't, or your whole thesis about cultural influence is bunk to begin with.

Any salient differences about the interpretation of scripture are probably best explained by noting that Indian Americans are disproportionately drawn from the highly educated, technical classes. These are engineers, doctors and scientists we're talking about here, and those types tend to have little patience for outright mysticism. On the other hand, recognizing scripture as metaphor - rather than literal truth - is not a widely-observed strength of American culture, so one would be hard-pressed to see how immigrants would pick up such a stance from living here.

Meanwhile, I've never heard this term "whiter than white." But I've heard the terms "coconut" and "ABCD" pretty regularly.

 

Could you explain that a little more deeply.
Has it anything to do with mixed race Indians?

 

Actually, the trait to look at the content of scriptures as metaphors is not necessarily to do with education or social standing - though it might be at a different level with specific groups.

As an example, Rama is not revered because of his valor or physical strength - but for the qualities of persistence, truthfulness, devotion to his cause and values - a change agent (God) in an age where this was all not the norm. Hanuman is revered for his absolute devotion to his master and a cause - not for his physical ability to jump long distances or kill the demons. Even today, where devotion needs exemplified in any field by a Hindu, Hanuman is referred to as inspiration.

This view exists not just in the "whiter than whites" but even in the "darker than the dark, uneducated people" who toil in the Indian Sun in the innermost hamlets. You will hear priests in temples even there talking about the inner abstract representations of what the epics and scriptures say.

 

Pal, it is not so B/W thingy. Not all Americans understand Hinduism, nay, are not prepared to do so. Americans started with viewing Hinduism as satanism, then to a "strange" religion, then a mysterious system. From hate it has changed to absence of hate, but does it mean love too? NO.

who would do it? There is no dearth of "scholars" who would deliberately distort the facts, this book is an exzample. I assure you that all the errors pointed out are REAL. I rather believe that they are insidious.

Who would do it? Know about numerals, place value system and rules of computation? Everyone in the west staeted with believing they were Arabic in origin [basis? NIL. Except that they got it from Arabs]. Then it dawned upon them that the Arabs had credited Hindus!!! What happened?? GRUDGINGLY, they said: OK, Indo-Arabic. Hahaha.

Mostly by English "scholars". Take a recent example. Who conquored the S. Pole? Was it Amundsen or Scot? Amundesn reached S. Pole fully ONE month before Scot did. He spent 3 days there making observations and trying to fix the EXACT location of S. Pole. Yet look at maps, histories. S. Pole: Amundsen-Scot, as if they reached it the same day!!

No. i absolve them. I am a Hindu.

Buddhists could not do it without repudiating their roots.

Then who? Do I need to draw a map here?

 

Like to disprove any thing?

 

Now, now. SAM, why should you know about advanced Indian culture?: After all, everything started with Islam and Mo. Ha. But for Mo, nobody would know that mother's milk is invaluable for an infant!!!

SAM, I don't know why you are a Mod at all?

Muslim Barbie, A figure hidden in a TENT.
Anyone wantimng a pic might see IGLOO on google.

 

Don't be silly. What is an "advanced Indian"? Some one who speaks English? Are some Indians "work in progress"? I don't accept that westernised Indians are more "advanced" - who is more well versed in Indian culture? The ABCD or the Indian brought up in an Indian ethos? Who is more "advanced" as an Indian?

 

Evasive now?

 

Source for terming Kali a demon? Not epistemology out of your ass.
Source for her incarnation as a king? Not your ass please.

Source? Not your ass please.

 

Haha. Then Wapedia is WRONG and someone pulled it out of his ass. Get me a refrence from Mahabharata, not your ass.

 

In fact you know nothing. SAM is muslim, and muslims do not wear dhotis. Period.

Dhoti for a woman is called a sari, and many muslim women too wear it. Many xian women too. In fact office going women mostly wear saris, just as teachers do.

A suit with salwar is aka Punjabi suit and is nearly a pan Indian dress for young women and girls.


Hmm. In fact more of your posts I see, the more I am convinced that you are a prejudiced ass, with very shallow knowledge about India.

 

Muslims do not wear dhotis? Yes we do, only we call it a lungi or a sarong! Its the most common garment in Muslims in India! Thats what most of them wear at home!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lungi

Its just not pulled up at the back like a Marathi saree