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In Reply to: Re: I should clarify posted by Traveler in India on September 16, 2009 at 09:48:15:
I agree with you wholeheartedly...the way you see yourself is really something too...I work on nightshifts in a very international company...(actually two of my superiors happen to be Indians, who seem to do some training here : ) )...it's already several years ago, that at the season of carneval one German guy appeared as a transsexual..transvestite...first I was amused but then we saw it actually was his planned coming out...he left later the company...but imagine also that his kids now have "two" mummies... : (
I think that extreme nationalism is a thing of the past anyway...but then there are nations/people, who are easier on/with foreigners...happier to integrate...then there are also immigrants who actually don't want to integrate...they basically hate the decadence of the West...and to some extent they are right (on the other hand...why staying then???it begs the question)...I think this culture-mixing is getting "pushed from the top"... policy/politic-makers are fueling that...for me that is fine, as long as people abide by the rules/laws
Yesterday I "youtubed" the song I grew up with as a kid...and I remember being glued to the radio, when it was broadcasted, I really liked the tune...I think, I was 6 then...I was "surprised" learning now, that it got composed by an English fellow...no offence meant...the text-versions vary from country to country...but I liked "our version"
Music is very "human"...a need/delicacy...and so international (the Mozart-family shifted from southern Germany to Austria...so they of course claim him as Austrian...then was he Germanic???...something similar with Beethoven...often those families shifted lots...or take the example of the painter Rubens etc. )...I really like the attempt they made of bringing Israeli and Palestinans into one orchestra e.g....besides performing together with musicians of many other nations...
Here's the version...interesting are also the comments!!!!!
Same could be said for soccer...the times of just one ethnic group in the national team or more in the first national leagues are over too...there are many more examples...I guess the US was long at the forefront of integrations...but I am not sure whether they always did their homework??
As far as India is concerned...one just has to follow the discussions about the Arian-stuff...whether it came in from the outside, by invaders or not...the South was anyway a different ethnical group...the southerners claim to have the most beautiful actrices...then there is this Thackery guy of Mumbai, who was clacking with dear Amitabh, because he hails from U.P. and Thackery pushed this Maharashtran thing and thinking...kind of odd...they were punishing people for using Hindi signs in the public...I couldn't believe it...well something similar happened also in former Yugoslavia and in China all seems also not to be well with the racial integration or living together...
It's easy to "design it" from some top, but it has to be practiced and also there are quite a few "leftovers" from the past...and forgiveness is not all too often been sought by the clashing nations or ethnical groups...it seems to be still quite a mine-field
Last not least I read, that the whole genom-variety in the whole world can be traced back to about 6 different types/people...interesting anyway...so a lot of quarrels look like family-feuds..."funny" if you think of it...so this Kraut-bashing e.g. of some countries is also "relative" in this regard or has been...although I agree with the core/kernel of that opposition
