Know Thyself

May 23, 2007 08:15

I have come across this situation where someone asks what the core principles of your culture are...or what is your society like...or do you have anything like the Ten Commandments in your religion...and I have observed that almost always Indians find it difficult to answer these questions...I think that this is because we do not try to understand ( Read more... )

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Anbe Sivam anonymous May 23 2007, 19:10:20 UTC
thats what I would say if someone asks me such questions.

where do you start - well start from the beginning?

depending on how much time the listener has, you can go on & on:o)

you can pick pretty much any thirukural and say this is one of our commandments!

cultures that cannot tolerate/understand the diversity that exists within a mosaic like in India are the ones that go around invading others to make others consume like themselves.

our culture is a culture of cultures. and to explain it in 2 lines we have to be immersed in it.

-srikanth.

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