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From: sanjiva@tesla.UUCP (Sanjiva Prasad)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.india
Subject: Re: Some basic questions!
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Date: Tue, 18-Mar-86 13:51:03 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

In general (:~), I agree, Mark.

In the NY Times, there was an article about the Pope's visit to India 
which described the country by saying that anything said about India is
simultaneously true and false. Needless to say this statement is ......

Cheers, 
Sanjiva