On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <law...@au-kbc.org> wrote: [..] > it is cultural - India will only be free when youngsters are confident enough > to smoke/drink in front of their elders. This same attitude of 'respect' being > the crucial thing is everywhere. Ask questions? You lose respect by exposing > your ignorance. Take an unpopular stand - 'you will lose respect if you talk > rubbish like this'. Basically we worry too much about what other people think > of us. And do not worry enough about learning new things - even at the cost of > losing 'respect'. So you copy because you do not want to lose 'respect' by > failing - and if you do lose respect you hang yourself. In fact I once made a > remark about RMS, and was told 'at least respect him as an elder'. Why should > I? He is younger than me ;-)[..]
While introspection and analysis of our 'culture' is a good thing. A forceful integration from the 'west' is probably not a good idea. I'm sure they have issues with their 'culture' as well. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
