on the utility of meta understanding the thread titled understanding the us-again
every thread has a mandate and an end state that is desirous, if there are no guiderails to a thread's mandate, then any and all discussions can be reduced to intellectual masturbation; that being the case, there are 3 and only 3 reasons on why this thread is necessary at all
1) for most people, the us is the center of the universe, its an undeniable fact, majority of news channels now have dedicated time slots to covering what is happening in the First Country, so most people, as well as some posters would say, might as well understand how the leader of the free world behaves, it is after all beamed into our skulls a good chunk of the time
a downside to the above, particularly from an indian perspective, is the reduced time allocation to discussion of local issues by the media, important coverage and look aheads on soap operas, murders most foul sensationalism, ascendancy of the pandavas to the heavens for the zillionth time, the squeaking and squawking of self-appointed public priest, audience, the
sramana for minor to major infractions are all lost in time like tears in a rain...
2) other posters like to swap esoteric knowledge on the minutiae of the working of the american polity
yes, this fight is between chris goldbergsteinowitz of the red team and abuella gonzales of the blue team in the second primary of Chief-Two-Buffalo Falls in Wichita, but the results can be thrown out by the Lower Fifth Court of Broadway, but Justices of the 2nd Parallel Supreme Court located on highway I38, next to the Byculla-Bhyander bypass can overrule it.. very smart indeed
or something like that, it all sounds gibberish anyways after a couple of lines, here, i'll add the customary emoji that is somehow compulsory for all posts on this thread
i am sure members of a forum primarily residing in india can find much comfort and knowledge in enriching themselves by reading post after post of such inanities
3) there are posters who know that the following 2 maxim go hand-in-hand and try to post accordingly:
understanding leads to empathy and
familiarity breeds contempt
mental inferiority of indians cannot go until indians start to
laangmaar the international gora, that is indians start viewing goras as another community of india and in typical indian fashion start scuttling their advances, this is the end goal that people have sensed, we are too similar, asians, arabs, africans, hispanics, aboriginals, they are all disparate, indians and caucasians otoh are similar in ways that asians for all their cello and ballet aping can never hope to match
to do that, it is vital that to the common person, as in one who uses the net for other purposes than stalking women, the view is reinforced repeatedly that the communities are similar, that there are issues in the First Country as well; the number of people who will say any sort of thing for a foreign stay, exploitation of religion, of caste, of colour, of gender, discrimination to the gora is astounding
the main issue is to feel special, the last time round, the gora was here, a lot of communities got a special tag, martial caste, intellectual caste, kite-flying caste... indians will spill out to a gora, be it peer, junior, senior differences just to be labelled special, it does not matter if you are having lunch, your indian counterpart will point you out to the gora and say "these people, their food is different, our people, we make things in this particular way", but for everything
you have younger people who will support #notmypresident, the dipshts never understanding that yes, he is not your president, champion blm, advance causes of american outlook on indian soil in religion, patriarchy, marriage rituals, rituals in general, mythology, just to be labelled special, it is very very disheartening
to this end, some indians have started assimilating the gora in the wider pantheon of communities, in many online areas, indians refer to the gora as the onlyfans race, it is reprehensible, but it is getting the point across
when obama became the potus, the naive indian community (a large part anyways) swindled by the media fell to his worship as well, but next time a jaurez takes reign or even a gora gora, the relations will not be adulation and overt worship
general amity is not the best possible outcome, if the message has to be sent in a cheery way, so be it, i have always been clear with what i want from this thread and what understanding the us - again means to me