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In Reply to: Re: some seem to insist on it posted by Farmer on September 15, 2009 at 15:39:22:
Sorry if I am misunderstanding you. Your posts are a little cryptic to me. I'm not sure exactly what your "problem" is with K.K. or if it is a problem at all. Perhaps it is because you are being careful not to say what you really mean so as not to infringe on her privacy. But even if that is true then it also strikes me as having a double standard--why make an issue of K.K.'s identity and her private life present or past, if it is her private life?
Is she using a false identity or resume to defraud the public in order to gain good PR for TFI? That would be another thing. If she was big leader responsible for a lot of crimes, that would be another thing. But if she was born into TFI and wishes to move on and keep the public focus away from her past in TFI, that is her right. I support that!
Why are you accusing her of compromising? Do you wish she would just come out and admit her past in TFI? Isn't it her own business when and where she chooses to tell her story, if at all?
Reading what little I can grasp (and again, please forgive me if I misunderstand you) I don't see what the issue is, why there is a "bad taste" as you call it in her choice of surname. It's quite common for people to adopt stage/public names which are more marketable. Take Sting, Muddy Waters, Madonna, Marilyn Monroe, just to name a few. The surname she chose is right for the Bollywood market, so why not?
Are you saying that you know better than K.K. about her own racial identity? Or do you mean that she has no right to assert her Indian identity since she doesn't know who her father is? How it reads from where I'm sitting it's like you want her to defend her Indian-ness, or you are saying she has no moral right to call herself Indian just because she doesn't remeber her father. (Again I am just trying to understand and please forgive me if I got it all wrong.)
As for the issue of her pronuciation, do you mean it's too refined for being Indian? Do you mean that Indians are only allowed to speak with a heavy Indian accent? (That's the way it comes across, and again, sorry if I misunderstand.)
You wrote, "Besides this, she is not too sure, where she belongs spiritually..."
I am not sure as to the relevance of this.
Believe me, I understand your point about the eternal problem of how people see you vs. how you see yourself. But if it's any help, if you were to "go native" (sarcasm intended) and become a bedouin, you will for all intents and purposes be a bedouin to me. I would have to accept that you see yourself that way and have your good reasons for leaving your German past behind you. ;-)
I agree that playing the race card is just pure foolishness and does more to set things back than forward.
The book you mention sounds fascinating. It's just the kind of reading I like. Is it available in English?
