On 4 March 2014 10:30, SS <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 13:00 -0800, Raj Shekhar wrote: > > What I see here is that you are using the model laid out in the Indian > > texts (I assume the Hindu religious texts). Using this model has > > benefits, but the bias that might creep in there is that the good of > > many outweigh the needs of few. > > In fact I have not read a single Hindu religious or non religious text > in my entire life which will soon hit six decades. Note that I did not > even mention the word Hindu in my post. I base my views solely on my > observations of society in India and they apply to Indians - meaning > Hindus, Muslims, Jains, Sikhs and Christians. That is the way life has > been lived in Indian society and continues to a great extent. > > There is a curious way in which things that are common to a whole lot of > Indians are attributed to Hindus alone - and this is one example of a > type of cognitive bias. Parents looking after children looking after > elderly parents, collective family decision making, mandatory > heterosexual marriage, fixing marriages within a community >
Don't agree with this observation by the Kerala HC, but the article below[1] posted by Madhu yesterday on Facebook demonstrates how ingrained playing as a team is in India. Kiran [1] http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/Parents-Have-a-Say-in-Marriage-of-Their-Children-Kerala-HC/2014/03/01/article2083620.ece#.UxVkDvmSx8H
