these articles tend to be all from a male perspective-would love to see one
from a female perspective.
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
va [06/07/08 17:21 +0100]:
nail...head...hit.
a sublime look at the better half in the land of milk 'n
Radhika, Y. wrote, [on 7/7/2008 11:57 AM]:
these articles tend to be all from a male perspective-would love to see one
from a female perspective.
Try this:
http://www.amazon.com/Marrying-Anita-Quest-Love-India/dp/1596911859
An extract is visible at http://anitajain.net/extract.htm
Udhay
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
these articles tend to be all from a male perspective-would love to see
one
from a female perspective.
Try this:
http://www.amazon.com/Marrying-Anita-Quest-Love-India/dp/1596911859
An extract is visible at
You really think so? Relative to what - the world wide range of
thought? I think that in general Indian cultural thinking is both less
liberal at the more liberal extreme (say relative to Scandanavian
countries) and less conservative at the more conservative extreme (say
relative to the most
On Sunday 06 July 2008, Charles Haynes wrote:
On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Sirtaj Singh Kang [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
- There is a wide range of bands of thought if sampled across the
population of India, but a given Indian person chooses far too few.
You really think so?
I wasn't
On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Sirtaj Singh Kang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- There is a wide range of bands of thought if sampled across the
population of India, but a given Indian person chooses far too few.
You really think so? Relative to what - the world wide range of
thought? I think that
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you want to rank India relative to other indvidual countries in
terms of diversity of thought I'd personally rate it relatively high
in homogeneity. There are certainly outliers, but in general I'd say
that Indian
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just for one example take Indian attitudes toward arranged marriage.
nail...head...hit.
a sublime look at the better half in the land of milk 'n honey[0]
[0]
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you want to rank India relative to other indvidual countries in
terms of diversity of thought I'd personally rate it relatively high
in homogeneity. There are certainly outliers, but in general I'd say
that Indian
va [06/07/08 17:21 +0100]:
nail...head...hit.
a sublime look at the better half in the land of milk 'n honey[0]
[0] http://www.hindu.com/mag/2008/07/06/stories/2008070650160400.htm
quoting from that article -
She will vociferously defend pati-parmeshwar.s taste for Budweiser and
Black
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 2:08 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think the guy has a rather intelligent taste in music. Pity his
intelligence doesnt extend to the beer that he drinks.
gender ?
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How about India? And China? Do Indians think within a narrow band of
thoughts?
MUST... STOP... SELF... FROM RANTING
I am in violent agreement with the sentiment that Indians in general are too
narrow minded, but not having
I see more variation in Indian thought across class lines but it is actually
still quite difficult to mix across class lines.
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How about India? And
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 16:18 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Not just languages, dialects. Do you find yourself talking say regionally
accented Italian with someone who has a strong regional accent, and a more
BBC Italian (or is it RAI Italian) with someone who has that kind of
educated
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 22:11 +1000, Charles Haynes wrote:
If you read the article, you see that it is making a distinction
None of the comments so far have made this same distinction. I think
bi-culturalism is much rarer than bi-lingualism.
because none of the commentators actually _read_ the
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [01/07/08 22:33 +0200]:
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 22:11 +1000, Charles Haynes wrote:
If you read the article, you see that it is making a distinction
None of the comments so far have made this same distinction. I think
bi-culturalism is much rarer than bi-lingualism.
because
Not just languages, dialects. Do you find yourself talking say regionally
accented Italian with someone who has a strong regional accent, and a more
BBC Italian (or is it RAI Italian) with someone who has that kind of
educated upper class accent?
suresh
-Original Message-
If you read the article, you see that it is making a distinction
between bi-lingual and bi-cultural. They are seeing a difference
between people who speak two languages but only identify with a single
culture, versus people who speak two languages and identify with two
cultures.
None of the
Suresh,
Not just languages, dialects.
Yes, of course.
Do you find yourself talking say regionally
accented Italian with someone who has
a strong regional accent ...
No. But sometimes it's fun to drop into dialect if and when there is
one that someone else and I can share.
(People from
Actually, Charles .. a lot of the dialect has cultural overtones as well
Hyderabadi hindi for example, if you ever get the chance to speak it, is
more or less like cockney English (there's just as much cultural reference
as there's a change in accent)
I'd speak it with my friends on a college
Charles,
... a distinction between bi-lingual and bi-cultural.
... people who speak two languages but only identify
with a single culture, versus people who speak two
languages and identify with two cultures.
I don't want to clutter the list... but I think this is a relevant point.
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 4:52 AM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/06/25/are.you.a.different.person.when.you.speak.a.different.language
Are you a different person when you speak a different language?
I don't know if I think differently, but I
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