On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:51 AM, ss <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you ever found > the need to "unregister" from groups of liars, Christians, gays or violent > people?
Only when I've been wrongly identified as belonging to a group with which I do not wish to be associated - usually by some officiously bureaucratic government agency. I want to "unregister" from a racial identity, a gender classification, a marital status or a religion. My "race" is not white, asian, pacific islander, or mixed. My gender is not male or female. My marital status is not married, single, divorced, or widowed. My religion is not Christian, Hindu, in your enumeration of religions or other. My father's name is not relevant to who I am. I do not have a "permanent address." ... and I am not a number! If the government insists on putting a label on me that I don't think belongs, it's important to take that label off lest it confuse other people or get misused. When the claim is made that India is "80% Hindu" is that just people the government has labelled "Hindu" who have not bothered to unregister, or is that people who actually consider themselves "Hindu?" -- Charles
