I will support any campaign to stop media influenced by the western philospohy 
and living, and also those people who consider anything that is Indian as 
primitive from writing such tripe. One way is to mount a campaign to dislodge 
such attitude from their mindset.

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Subject: Re: [ =>> Jharkhand <<= ] Fwd: STOP calling us Primitive








You are absolutely right.

 

Primitive was a derogatory term adopted by the Western to term non- western 
culture, beliefs, people's vis a vis to their own supposedly highly developed 
civilization/religion etc.

 

We Indians should have disposed of these terms upon independence, but that 
never came about because today's India and Indian intellectual are an inferior 
version of their western masters and copy cats of everything west.  The 
foundations of modern India was laid by Jawahlala Nehru who had least respect 
or consideration for anything indigenuous.  So everything that is local -- is 
considered primitive.

 

The writers who tend to adopt such terms are generally very westernized, 
de-Indianized and not in touch with their Indian roots.  So only the semitic, 
monotheistic beliefs and culture are considered modern. So all tribal, Hindu, 
beliefs are looked down upon and made fun of.

 

It is high time we take these pseudo people from their high pedestals. Rashmi 
internet is a great tool.  I would suggest you get a team of people to 
immediately shoot off letters whenever they write such which is often.  We 
should not not let them go lightly.

 

Today tribal folks,  many of them repositories of ancient knowledge, something 
which is fast disappearing from this world.  We need to reverse this trend.

 

Venkat.

 

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