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From: mwg@petrus.UUCP (Mark Garrett)
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Subject: Re: Some basic questions!
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Date: Tue, 11-Mar-86 15:26:35 EST
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>     Throughout the discussion, I had this nagging feeling that I couldn't
> say anything in *GENERAL* about Indians.
>     - Is there a description of a TYPICAL Indian?
> T.K.Rengarajan

That is an odd thing to hear from an Indian, but one of the things I
concluded from my stay in India was that there was *NOTHING* typical
in the whole country!!  I constantly found that generalizations I got
from some natives contradicted those of others.  One man told me about
how arranged marriages were historically very stable because each
person knows it is permanent and therefore works to make it work.
Then I read stories of wife-burnings because of insufficient doweries.
Of course, both are true, but the circumstances vary so greatly across
the country.  Finding a typical Indian would be like finding a typical
European who could represent all the countries from Denmark to Armenia!!
-Mark Garrett