Your urge to be petty and unfair exceeded your ability to control yourselves and behave courteously. Time to close, though it is unfair that a few determined hecklers ruined it for all.

what i’m driving at is the unfortunate dead end we find ourselves at when we’re not having a fruitful dialogue on ills, woes and solutions.we’re all in each others mess – for better or worse – and whatever connection we maintain with the motherland is done out of sincere interest for the well being of all within (including those we’re not qualified to discuss.)

You are correct in that lower castes lend themselves to opression primarily because inspite of a large headcount, they are economic underweights, similar to what India was a few decades back. Things are changing now and the reasons are not philantrophic or social, but economic. There is a nice parallel of how Indians have been and are currently perceived in the world order, and in the Indian caste scenario.

when it comes to high-caste poor people in india, it is desperate, but that desperation is also partly b/c they simply don’t have as many means to attainment as they optimally would.

“Although I agree that it looks mundane, the aspect that caught my eye is the fact that we are talking about kids, kids who are supposed to be pure and unbiased. That changes everything.”

If kids “who are supposed to be pure and unbiased” were left without adult supervision, even in Freedomland USA, you wouldn’t have even hospitals to deal with the situation. Kids in their feral state are monsters and it takes years of schooling and parenting to get them to not beat each other to death (boys) or drive each other to suicide (girls). I’d always prefer collegiate adults to sophomoric children. For every one Dick Cheney in adulthood, there are a thousand kids who entertain themselves setting fire to live cats and dogs.

Only Americans, Iraqis, and actual deployed soldiers belonging to the coalition of the willing are allowed to talk about it.

I mean that comparatively when it comes to the criticisms lobbed at ABDs that Seahawks Fan pointed out-’Go back to India!’ vs. ‘You don’t know what it’s like to live in India’-the former has no grounding and is simply racist, but the latter obviously has some grounding, because ABDs simply literally don’t know what it’s like to live in India. Frankly I just find this to be a ridiculous complaint, but then I’m someone who thinks that rich people should generally just live it up and while doing so, shut the f*ck up. This is not to say that ABDs aren’t allowed to criticize anything about India, obviously they are, but some commenters felt that the perspective provided here is biased, especially when they were alleged to be a-OK with casteism. And let’s not pretend that there aren’t some really ignorant and frankly, racist, ABDs out there. I haven’t spent my entire life in India BTW, more like 44% of it so far, though that percentage will most likely decrease as the years go by.

perhaps, but appeal to the class of birth as opposed to the class of attainment are weak tea and the refuge of the desperate

FYI, America invading Iraq is an international matter, howmuchever Americans may wish to convey the impression that Iraq has always been a state of the union.

A slow news rolls around and Anna and company at SM troll the news for India articles. ABD’s are simply not qualified and don’t have the right to comment on Indian affairs. American sanctimonious preaching is irritating at best, dangerous at worst (see Iraq)…

congrats #69 for the comment of the day! you caught us. your witty exposé uncovered “anna and company’s” secret ploy to troll teh news for the worst possible news on india.

but, in keeping to the fairness of your critique – hush on the whole iraq thing, eh? and for that matter, and foreign policy decision made from the states. this is in keeping with the whole qualifications and rights thing, natch.

anyway, puppies in the next post – let’s do our best not to kick.