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From: arora@sunybcs.UUCP (Kulbir S. Arora)
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Subject: Re: Re: indians in the US
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Date: Mon, 11-Mar-85 17:51:23 EST
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> 
> Good idea!  However, in the hope of first provoking some more discussion on 
> our attitudes here, I would like to bring up again the question of what our
> self-perceptions are.
> 
> It occurs to me that our attitudes may very roughly be grouped into three
> categories (or in some cases, even three stages).  These seem manifest most 
> clearly in our attitudes to the media coverage of India.

  What good are such categorizations ?  Why are you trying to impose a
  structure on a domain where there is none ?  Such meaningless taxonomies
  are the basis of rabid generalizations which most of us tend to make.
  You have no basis, except your limited exposure to some Indians, to come
  up with such theories.  
  The question is not to find out which 'type' an Indian belongs to.  The
  question is to discuss and find out WHY we feel that the media is unfair
  to India ?  Note that I do not even presuppose the case that the media
  IS unfair.  In the process of answering the first question the second
  will be taken care of.

  Kulbir Arora