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Anuradha Chepur
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BCT, after certain revelations about Americans in this thread, I have jumped to a conclusion that Americans are probably more conservative than Indians!
You will find three/four thousand year old nude sculpture in Indian temples, and we don't have dress-designers for horses here. |
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beancurdturtle
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| Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:58 am Post subject: |
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| Anuradha Chepur wrote: |
| BCT, after certain revelations about Americans in this thread, I have jumped to a conclusion that Americans are probably more conservative than Indians! |
Haha! Not all of us my dear. But I understand your thoughts.
My best friend Ritesh is from India - he has been in the U.S. for seven years. He is also a Christian - the same religion as the Americans who want to dress horses and cover statues. He is often as dumbstruck as I about the attitudes and actions of many Americans.
He has recommended that I move to India. 
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Edoardo
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| Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 3:19 am Post subject: |
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| Anuradha Chepur wrote: |
You will find three/four thousand year old nude sculpture in Indian temples, and we don't have dress-designers for horses here. |
Yes, you could find 3000 year old nude sculpture also in Western temples, if only they still exsisted... but I think some sides of the USA-american culture to be very weird, if I can use this word, just because America is only 300 years old... And this is very, very limitative. |
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ClarissaMach
Joined: 18 May 2006
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Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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| Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Anuradha Chepur wrote: |
| Nevertheles, I can relate more with the Americans for reasons other than tolerance to nudity. I think it's because I can speak their language, and also love their language. In effect, even before I took up higher studies in English, I took up courses in European languages (Spanish and French). Butsomehow, they couldn't sustain my interest, and I ended a drop-out. I turned to my first love - English. Once, with all enthusiasm, I applied for a PhD scholarship in a university in Norway (in Linguistics), and I got it. But then I developed cold feet, due to the language factor again and I didn't go. |
Mrs Chepur, I don't get what you mean. Isn't English an European language, just like German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, etc?
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| Another reason I like Europe less and America more is: my hero Noam Chomsky, (also known as America's worst dissident) is an American, though many Americans don't like him. Most of those belonging to our community (Chomskyan Linguistics) are in USA. I don't read Chomsky's political theory, but his linguistic theory is mind-blowing! |
Curious thing... in Brazil, Chomsky is best known for his political view - which is very different from yours, isn't it, Mrs Chepur? I remember that by the time of the attacks against the World Trade Center, he dared say that the USA had provoked its own disgrace... my American relatives hate him because of this!
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Bob S.
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| Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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| I remember a few years ago where some fool in the USA proposed covering up the genitals of horses. |
I read about that too. It turns out to have been a big practical joke by a group of comedians about 40 or 50 years ago having fun with American conservative culture. That was so many years ago, though, I can't remember the source (I think an old old issue of Reader's Digest but I wouldn't swear to it and I can't find a link). |
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Anuradha Chepur
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True Clarissa, English is a European language. But English is also English! Somehow, I didn't click with other European languages.
As a student of Chomskyan linguistics, and having done a doctoral thesis in that, I'm concerned with only the linguistics of Chomsky. I have immense respect for the man, inspite of not agreeing with his political philosophy. My way of thinking is essentially capitalist, so outside linguistics, Chomsky is entitled to his views and I'm entitled to mine. |
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