At 2:26 AM +0000 1/19/06, umesh sharma wrote:
Cda,
once again how do you wish to educate Assamese about democracy if you feel only those in US or UK can lern about democracy. do u want them all to come and stay in these nations for decdes to learn democratic acts.
Umesh
*** That is an entirely different issue.
Also, very few of all these expatriates, NRAs and NRIs ,
participate in their governance. They live in cocoons, in their own
cultural ghettos, telling each other how great their mother-India is,
how they are hot-s**t,while wallowing in their low-self-esteem. I
don't expect anything from THEM. Yes, there is a lot to be done in
EDUCATING my fellow men in Assam, about DEMOCRACY. But it is easily
done. It has to be introduced in schools--there is no escape from that
reality.
Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The following from Saturday that did not get into the list:>i took some courses about teaching democratic citizenship and peace in developing countires to >school children - thru books , other media and learning-by-doing -so does it mean that unless alll >these children come to us or uk ro learn abo! ut democracy at work they can never be democratic in >their outlook.**** You merely prove my point Umesh. And I hadn't forgotten your Harvard M Ed degree either., which I am certain you would not hesitate to wave at anyone willing to to notice and to all the the democracy challenged desis, as your pedigree , your license to be a spokesman of democracy .But it is obvious from your many posts in Assam Net, how half-baked, even ignorant at times, your own concept of democratic principles are.cmAt 4:37 PM +0000 1/16/06, umesh sharma wrote:
C-DA,
t! hough your point seems simplistic and biased in favor of westerners being a superior people it does throw up some important questions..
FOR ONE : You assume that anyone who has lived in US or UK knows a lot more about democracy becos they have experienced it. it is true that you cannot know unless u have experienced it. for example love and thus cannot preach it. good point.
second: however it assumes that anyone who has never seen a democracyor peace at work can never imagine it or reform his system . perhaps u think that rule by people is a very complex process.
third: you assume that anyone who has been in US or UK for studies for only a few years has no idea of how democracy works. maybe you are right maybe not. many examples are there of those who came to west to study and were democratic leaders in the nations. like nehru , mahatma gandhi , currently appointed first female president of africa&nbs! p; - in liberia today - she did a progra! m at harvard some years ago.
foruth: now the question comes of the role of educational media. does one really have to come to us or uk to get the education in democracy or governance. i took some courses about teaching democratic citizenship and peace in developing countires to school children - thru books , other media and learning-by-doing -so does it mean that unless alll these children come to us or uk ro learn about democracy at work they can never be democratic in their outlook.
last: even if we teach them thru books how much needs to be learnt by citizens to learn to be democratic thru learning by doing
umesh
C-DA WROTE:
And I aim that challenge specifically to those who have lived in the USA or Britain for decades, and hopefully have, some clues, as to how democratic processes work. Those who have seen and experience! d ! nothing but the dysfunctional desi-system, are exempt. Umesh is included. He gets an extra reprieve because he has been so disoriented.
cm
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