[identity crisis] on practicalities

[karanguni]

Cultural barrier and racism discussion alert; also warning that I am a bit weepy from PMS and this long talk with my second brother --

Comments

[glass_icarus]

&hearts

i've had multiple conversations like this with my friends, who say racist things but don't mean them, and also with my parents, who say racist things and sometimes do mean them, and it's true that those two situations are completely different. i guess it's a type of... intimacy... when people show you their figurative asses? 0.o it's frustrating a lot of times, but at the end of the day, we can only make decisions for ourselves. (and, in some cases, hope that the people we know and love don't make asses of themselves in public/say stupid things around people who will actually be hurt by it.)

[karanguni]

Practicality in thought! \o\ ♥ Life is so full of multiplicity. I CANNOT EVEN BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND IT, I JUST TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS OF IT AND PASTE IT ON WALLS YEY? /o/

[22by7]

Nothing stranger or better or more uncomfortable or touching than discovering your own country's racial and religious idiosyncrasies
YES. Yes, this.

Another thoughtful, fascinating post... This makes me want to think and write about my experience of regionalism/racism/communalism in India.

[karanguni]

:D Do it! :D

[deepad]

This was very resonant with some conversations I've had with my family. I know that every time I return to India and engage in political discussions with my new-found (Americanised) approach, I have to slow down and back up, to re-orient myself to what the baseline of discourse is in that space.

I... have some other thoughts about how the attitudes you mentioned are present in other cultures as well (at least in Indian ones), and also some of my disagreements with them, but this is your space, so thank you for sharing.

[karanguni]

Oh, please do go ahead! ♥ It's always new and lovely to hear things from different places and people.

[wei_jiangling]

I feel like this is yet another proof that part of me is Asian, despite the fact that that statement in terms of my heritage is really completely untrue. Because really both sides of that made perfect sense to me. There's not a whole lot else I can say because I would probably end up writing a book and it would almost definitely end up self-centered because I would have nothing to express other than my own experiences and thoughts, but... yeah. There's a lot to think about in there. The "real world" is such a strange place in so many ways...

[karanguni]

*g* I think it's more than possible for different cultural sensibilities to make sense to people and be inherently part of people no matter where they are or what they're born as! \o *g* 'Sides, it's our own experiences and thoughts that make us human and it's always cool to read about and think about and float around in a goopy pile with. \o\

[ajat]

Allow me to confuse you some more *Poke* Indians are a mixture of a large number of races XD
And yeah, everyone will backstab you at work if you're better than them, and even more than usual if you're a woman - this's not race-ltd

Trust me, I know

XD

[karanguni]

Man, I know Indians are a mixture of races. *g*