On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 society was relatively homogenous in attitude. Just for >> one example take Indian attitudes toward arranged marriage. > > Charles, that's something I had never seen till you pointed it out. > That while we may be culturally diverse our diversity of thought is in > fact, pretty homogeneous.
While it's probably not politically correct to say "me too" on a list that values original thinking, I must say, Charles, that your statement caused a bulb to light up over my head, and I had at least ONE partial answer to "how are we surving as a nation when we are so disparate and not-get-along-togethering?" Sometimes it needs a fresh perspective to see things. And it's also probably not "cool" to say it, but very often, people on this list make me think from angles I would not have considered otherwise. Deepa.
