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From: raven@ihlpl.UUCP (S. R. Venkatramanan)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.india
Subject: Re: On Horses, Jutkas, and other things
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Date: Sat, 22-Feb-86 18:57:02 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 22 18:57:02 1986
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> Just to drive a point home, friends, allow me to remind you all
> that few weeks back, I posted a request in this news group for
> places I could find a copy of Gitanjali. Guess how many of my
> Indian friends responded. You guessed it. Zilch.
> Only some American readers of this group responded.
> 

I think it is a basic human tendancy to be more curious about
things you are not used to in your usual environement.  If
you pose a question of availablity of a particular literature on
destruction of hiroshima to a japanese or a particular literature of
america to americans, i would think of a same kind of response.  Either
people don't keep track of details or don't care to respond.

e.g.  There is a temple at les than a k.m. from the place i lived in india.
I used to pas by that temple DAILY and go for worship ocasionaly.
Stil when somebdoy asked me about a burglary in that temple i was not able
to respond to it.  But at the same time, I used to go temples on the other
end of the city frequently and knew more about them.

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S. R. Venkatramanan	ihnp4!ihtnt!raven