I don’t know why I am choosing such a serious topic as the 1st entry to my blog but truly speaking this is one thing I have been suffering from the time I got senses. Why do we boast of ourselves as a secular country and the crap like ‘unity in diversity’? Myself being a Telugu speaking and having stayed all my life in a place hard to find a Telugu around, I always tried to learn the other cultures. I would like to take an example on the prevailing regionalism in India. The one thing I don’t like is why south-Indians should be taunted and made fun for their speaking language, dressing sense, living habits and even their eating habits. The south Indians never speak a word about the other cultures then why should they be made fun of. But there is one positive point also which I should mention that the north-Indians do respect south-Indians for their literacy level. Here I would like to state a common incident which happens mostly in our day-to-day life. When two people speaking in some south-Indian language, the third person is afraid of being abused by the other two. Why so? Are you guilty of anything that drives you to think that you would be abused?
I have a sincere plea to all people reading this blog – please understand the other cultures and don’t make fun of them and just assume if the same thing is done in reverse to you how you would react and how are they reacting to your jokes on them. I am not limiting my view on only south-Indians or linguistic based differences but for all those cultures, religions etc. which are made fun of. Let us please make the slogan ‘Unity in Diversity’ a true statement.
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there is nithing called as unity in diversity..............its all about tolerance levels of people once you cross that limit you call for conflicts.
ReplyDeleteI disagree, i have always cordial relation with every south indian guy in college....and wat i do feel they all are a sort of non-mixing with others....so on both sides u can see its not that we dont trust each other...the only problem is we do not understand each other(each other means north n south indian, not u n me :) )...and that is obvious no one can remove that...
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