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On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 20:52 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> Subject: [Goanet] Intolerance and tolerance .... Holland considers
> Saree ban
> To: [email protected]
> In my dealing with Indian women, the women's saree ban is not an
> affront to Indian women. It is an affront to some Indian men, whom I
> have encountered, who insist that their wife wear only the saree when
> seen in public in the USA.
I am not getting into this gender issue, though I think it's rather a
red herring. But the issue is whether any government or society can
dictate what it sees as the 'majority' culture on to others. By this
token, what is wrong with the Bajrang Dal loonies are saying in India?
They attack Valentine Day parties, and girls wearing jeans and skirts
because they claim that is against 'Indian culture'. However ridiculous
this stand, if one is to take a definition of assimilation as aping the
majority culture and not doing anything different, then it would make
such stands justified. Is 'Indian culture' equivalent to 'Hindu culture'
just because Hindus are in the majority in India? And is 'British
culture' equivalent to 'C of E culture', just because Anglicans happen
to be the majority there?
In fact, I would like to have some clear definition of this word
'assimilation' which is being bandied around so much as a desirable
value. What price the values of pluralism and multiculturalism?
> I think the Burka law or Blair's exhortation may / will silently
> empower immigrant women in their new home.
Yeah, just like Blair's intervention in Iraq has empowered the Iraqis.
Oh well, at least this time he's hassling his own citizens instead of
invading other countries and empowering their citizens...
--
Question everything -- Karl Marx
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