[ From: Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
[ Date: Nov 18, 2002 22:23 (-0600) ]
> EVEN if he is a markhowa youth, why do you think he
> couldn't write the way he did, IF he purposely was
> disguising who he is? Dilips and Dil's kids and ours
> call each others' parents by their first names. You
> know how close we are in real life, inspite of our
> net-spats :-). Does it mean that our kids don't
> respect the others' parents like their own?
i agree completely. i have a policy of not touching another
person's feet, the way it is done in india, to show reverence or
respect. that does not in anyway imply that i do not respect or
love my parents or my grandparents or love or respect them any
less, does it? also, although mostly while in india, we have
referred to our parents' friends as uncles and aunties, we have
had cases where we used to call them by their first names and
still do - does not in anyway signify any diminished respect for
them, infact more of it and closeness probably if it does signify
anything at all.
and i have also seen umpteen number of cases among my indian
friends who are devout followers of all things symbolic,
specially when it comes to showing respect to elders and are
often exhibited as the role models, but then when you look at
some of their actions towards and for(against?) those very folks,
you wonder what did they exactly have in mind when they carried
out those symbolic acts...
/amlan.
