On Tuesday 02 Sep 2008 8:11:47 am Sean Doyle wrote: > I know this isn't scientific - but culturally it just sounds off. There's > plenty of shit my culture; and often "How are you?" doesn't mean shit. I > think that the person who provided the shortened tale was bullshitting.
If you read the book "The Indians" by psychologists Sudhir and Katharina Kakar you will learn that shit (found everywhere you want in India) is considered so dirty that it is not used "casually" - even as a curse word. No Indian language has the equivalent of shit used as a curse word, although motherf**cker and other curse words are common. Shit is unclean and is meant to be gotten rid of. Pronto. And once you are rid of it you don't want t look at it, talk about it, or acknowledge it. Cleaning it up, when necessary, was ultimately delegated to a bunch of second class citizens. Hindu practices are full of advice about why and how to make sure you have a good crap. Yoga too has exercise to do that. Anyone who craps less than once a day (common among people on a high meat low veg diet) is considered constipated. A common complaint among Indian patients is that they are not getting "satisfaction" from crapping. shiv
