--- On Wed, 10/6/09, ss <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: ss <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [silk] Indian foodies
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, 10 June, 2009, 7:53 PM
> On Wednesday 10 Jun 2009 2:46:38 pm .
> wrote:
> > Reading the discussion on contamination, its hard to
> believe that
> > Indians are spotlessly clean. Maybe they are at home
> but think nothing
> > of defecating on the streets and spitting in public.
>
> Aha - Indian cleanliness extends only as far as one's arm
> will reach. The
> India who has crap in his mouth or elsewhere cleanses
> himself by getting rid
> of it where it will not bother him. If it bothers you that
> is your problem.
>
> I have faced great anger and criticism for telling this
> truth - and it is
> surely the anger of cognitive dissonance.
>
> Sadly it is perfectly true. Personal cleanliness is
> mandatory. Community
> cleanliness is not even considered.
>
> shiv
You have put your metaphorical finger in 'it'.
Anthropologically, sociologically, it is amazing that a culture that got down
to defining distances from different types of animal that were safe to
maintain, to defining complications of physical disposition during intercourse
that are brutally frank in their depiction of the possibilities, that can
minutely subdivide which sub-caste may marry which other finally fails to lay
down laws relating to community cleanliness.
Any clue, Shiv, what this huge gap might signify?
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