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- From: banerjee@hsc.usc.edu (Samit Banerjee)
- Newsgroups: rec.humor
- Subject: Re: Credit Validation
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 16:45:52 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- References: <1992Dec30.204617.21122@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu> <NAEEM.92Dec30195605@occs.cs.oberlin.edu> <1992Dec31.162321.15223@dickens.com>
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- >In article <NAEEM.92Dec30195605@occs.cs.oberlin.edu> naeem@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Naeem Mohaiemen) writes:
-
- >>But there is a difference between the scenario where an American tourist
- >>goes abroad and "sounds stupid" to people in India and an Indian immigrant
- >>living in the Bronx who gets called names such as "Ali Baba" as he goes
- >>to work every day.
-
- I do not know why Naeem has to be so prudish about the whole affair. Looks
- like he is raising a storm in a tea cup. And to top it all, Naeem is *NOT*
- even from India, he is from Bangladesh.
-
- People from that part of the world, like myself, will tell you that language
- jokes abound in India. Hell, with over 30 languages and over a 1000
- dialects we would have to be perfect not to find faults with someone else's
- language or let them find fault with ours. Bengali's are often berated
- for not speaking Hindi with the proper accent, the great North-South divide
- allows North Indian chauvinists to infuriate the Southerners for not
- knowing the national language and of course the Sikhs get the brunt of
- the jokes. I could go on but I think you get the picture. Linguistic and
- ethnic jokes are as common in the subcontinent as they are here. So please,
- lets stop this bull about the persecuted minority and the effect a joke
- on rec.humor will do for ethnic relations.
-
-
- To all of you out there, stop being apologetic. And Naeem, GET A LIFE.
- Rec.Humor is not the be-all or end-all of your existence. So
- descend from your "holier than thou" moralistic high horse and learn to
- laugh once in a while. And if you still insist in lauching your "jihad",
- try the talk.politics newsgroup hierarchy for a change.
-
- Sorry if I took up too much space, but the point needed to be made.
-
-
- Samit
-
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- University of Southern California | A man who smiles when things go wrong,
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