India and elephants
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One of the side effects of being in one of the most developed nations in the world is that it's extremely easy to avoid seeing anything outside of it. Hell, I think the majority of people hardly ever think about anything outside of their daily routine. I know a lot of people that have rarely ever left their little home town. Most have never been outside of the US. So a lot of people only get exposure to other cultures through the silliness of Hollywood. Which is pretty sad because that's usually grossly inaccurate. But it's not just the US, I know for a fact that there are people in Japan that think Texas is still full of cowboys with six shooters strapped to their sides using the outhouse between roping cattle and dodging the sheriff's bullets. Not many mind you, but it happens. So a lot of American's think of elephants and curry when you mention India, or monkey brains (from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom). And samurai, ninja and kimono from Japan. And AK47s and oil from the entire middle east. It doesn't help that our education includes virtually nothing international. Unless you count spanish lessons in Texas schools where 50% of the class is Mexican anyway.
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BoneSoft wrote:
that our education includes virtually nothing international
International? I'd be willing to bet that more than half of U.S. high school graduates cannot identify the fifty states. Canada? Fuh-geddabout-it! BDF
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leppie wrote:
like we do in South Africa?
dude you wont believe i have to go to johannesburg after US, maybe you can fill me in whats the place like? :D
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Just like India with elephants walking in the streets, and lions and gorilla's and monkeys! ;P not to be taken seriously
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Monty2 wrote:
I am 32 years old and the only elephant i ever saw was in a zoo so what is this obsession and for the last time WE DONT EAT MONKEY BRAINS and stuff like that half the population here is vegetarian including me.
Silly people. You'll be happy to know that most of us are not so misinformed. It's the Malaysians who eat monkey brains; Indians eat super-hot curries for breakfast, dinner, and supper, washing it all down with spiced tea. :rolleyes:
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Shog9 wrote:
Indians eat super-hot curries for breakfast, dinner, and supper, washing it all down with spiced tea.
:D, dude you are spot on (in my case at least), except breakfast i like cereal or eggs but the rest of the meals CURRIES ALL THE WAY :D and i hate tea though but everyone else drinks it :)
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Well, the first and only time I went to India, the first thing we saw when waking up in the morning was an elephant walking (I think it was "handled" by someone, and was told that it was the way for temples to get money) down the street and a cow nearby.
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Shog9 wrote:
Indians eat super-hot curries for breakfast, dinner, and supper, washing it all down with spiced tea.
:D, dude you are spot on (in my case at least), except breakfast i like cereal or eggs but the rest of the meals CURRIES ALL THE WAY :D and i hate tea though but everyone else drinks it :)
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Shog9 wrote:
Indians eat super-hot curries for breakfast, dinner, and supper, washing it all down with spiced tea.
:D, dude you are spot on (in my case at least), except breakfast i like cereal or eggs but the rest of the meals CURRIES ALL THE WAY :D and i hate tea though but everyone else drinks it :)
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Monty2 wrote:
and i hate tea though
Bah, obviously then you aren't a real Indian. I'll bet you don't even have a dot on your head... :suss: ;)
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leppie wrote:
like we do in South Africa?
dude you wont believe i have to go to johannesburg after US, maybe you can fill me in whats the place like? :D
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Monty2 wrote:
and i hate tea though
Bah, obviously then you aren't a real Indian. I'll bet you don't even have a dot on your head... :suss: ;)
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First of all a :wtf: (WTF smiley), now i am here in US for the first time, i have been here for 1 week and all i hear is: were you scrubbing elephant? do you have an elephant pet? how are the elephants in india? I am 32 years old and the only elephant i ever saw was in a zoo so what is this obsession and for the last time WE DONT EAT MONKEY BRAINS and stuff like that half the population here is vegetarian including me. And one more thing: WE DO NOT WORSHIP COWS, Cows are domestic animals here they are like dogs in US you dont eat dogs do you, so similarly we dont like to eat cows THATS IT. and dont even get me starting on the snake thing :rolleyes:. But all in all i like US, people are generally nice :-D
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People in the US are just as dumb about other regions in the US. I once convinced someone that car insurance was way more expensive in South Dakota because of all the roaming bison. She thought the Indians (feather not dot) still lived in teepees.
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Monty2 wrote:
and i hate tea though but everyone else drinks it
So you came to the US as a political refugee one step ahead of the lynch mob? :laugh:
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First of all a :wtf: (WTF smiley), now i am here in US for the first time, i have been here for 1 week and all i hear is: were you scrubbing elephant? do you have an elephant pet? how are the elephants in india? I am 32 years old and the only elephant i ever saw was in a zoo so what is this obsession and for the last time WE DONT EAT MONKEY BRAINS and stuff like that half the population here is vegetarian including me. And one more thing: WE DO NOT WORSHIP COWS, Cows are domestic animals here they are like dogs in US you dont eat dogs do you, so similarly we dont like to eat cows THATS IT. and dont even get me starting on the snake thing :rolleyes:. But all in all i like US, people are generally nice :-D
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Monty2 wrote:
half the population here is vegetarian including me.
Being in the other half, I am always amused when people assume that I am a vegetarian :-) Not only am I non-vegetarian, I'd struggle if I was given a veggie diet for more than a meal or two. I can't live without seafood and meat - not for long anyway.
Monty2 wrote:
so similarly we dont like to eat cows THATS IT.
You gotta visit Kerala. There, beef is pretty much as popular as fish and chicken. And a medium rare pepper sirloin steak would be among my favorite food items! The three most often ill-assumed aspects about me (as an Indian) would be :- 1. that I am a veggie (when I am a strict non-vegetarian) 2. that I speak hindi (when I can barely say a few broken phrases) 3. that I am a hindu and believe in 10,000 gods (when I am an atheist) But it's not a big deal really. Most Indians back home think all americans are like brit spears or paris hilton. So the mis-information and ignorance is not an american thing - it's a human thing I guess :-)
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Kant wrote:
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If i am not mistaken thats telugu :), where are you in US? I am in Newyork city
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BoneSoft wrote:
You just have to expect to have wierd preconceived notions about someplace you've never been.
Yeah, I try not to have preconceived notions of Germany. I would like to see where I was born once before I die, but then I would love to visit everywhere once before I die and the latter is far less likely. :) The pictures of the city where I was born look inviting, but I figure there is an even chance they deliberately made them look that way. :) I chuckle at advertisements for locations here, and then sometimes I am even involved. I was involved in making a picture using satellites to advertise a certain region of New Mexico. When I used raw satellite images, I was told the lakes/rivers were too murkey and uninviting and the land was too brown. So I adjusted the color bands to make the landscape an inviting green and hand-painted the lakes (and a color swapped the rivers) to a beautiful bright swimming pool blue. :laugh: Anyone who believes those images, obviously never read the litterature and only looked at the pictures.
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dan neely wrote:
lynch mob?
whats that :doh:
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Monty2 wrote:
whats that
what we do to sheep farmers and New Jersey based salsa distributers in New Mexico. ;P
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BoneSoft wrote:
that our education includes virtually nothing international
International? I'd be willing to bet that more than half of U.S. high school graduates cannot identify the fifty states. Canada? Fuh-geddabout-it! BDF
I'm sure. I don't even know much about most states. I've only been to five. That's kind of funny, I've been around the world more than once and I've only really been to 5 states. (not counting places I never left the airport)
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People in the US are just as dumb about other regions in the US. I once convinced someone that car insurance was way more expensive in South Dakota because of all the roaming bison. She thought the Indians (feather not dot) still lived in teepees.
leckey wrote:
feather not dot
:laugh::laugh: I like that. Especially since the irony that neither really applies. :laugh::laugh:
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Monty2 wrote:
half the population here is vegetarian including me.
Being in the other half, I am always amused when people assume that I am a vegetarian :-) Not only am I non-vegetarian, I'd struggle if I was given a veggie diet for more than a meal or two. I can't live without seafood and meat - not for long anyway.
Monty2 wrote:
so similarly we dont like to eat cows THATS IT.
You gotta visit Kerala. There, beef is pretty much as popular as fish and chicken. And a medium rare pepper sirloin steak would be among my favorite food items! The three most often ill-assumed aspects about me (as an Indian) would be :- 1. that I am a veggie (when I am a strict non-vegetarian) 2. that I speak hindi (when I can barely say a few broken phrases) 3. that I am a hindu and believe in 10,000 gods (when I am an atheist) But it's not a big deal really. Most Indians back home think all americans are like brit spears or paris hilton. So the mis-information and ignorance is not an american thing - it's a human thing I guess :-)
Regards, Nish
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My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com linkNishant Sivakumar wrote:
You gotta visit Kerala. There, beef is pretty much as popular as fish and chicken. And a medium rare pepper sirloin steak would be among my favorite food items!
wow i didnt know that, but i love kerala (Gods own country) i will be going there with wife and kids once i get back.
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Monty2 wrote:
half the population here is vegetarian including me.
Being in the other half, I am always amused when people assume that I am a vegetarian :-) Not only am I non-vegetarian, I'd struggle if I was given a veggie diet for more than a meal or two. I can't live without seafood and meat - not for long anyway.
Monty2 wrote:
so similarly we dont like to eat cows THATS IT.
You gotta visit Kerala. There, beef is pretty much as popular as fish and chicken. And a medium rare pepper sirloin steak would be among my favorite food items! The three most often ill-assumed aspects about me (as an Indian) would be :- 1. that I am a veggie (when I am a strict non-vegetarian) 2. that I speak hindi (when I can barely say a few broken phrases) 3. that I am a hindu and believe in 10,000 gods (when I am an atheist) But it's not a big deal really. Most Indians back home think all americans are like brit spears or paris hilton. So the mis-information and ignorance is not an american thing - it's a human thing I guess :-)
Regards, Nish
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My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com linkNishant Sivakumar wrote:
And a medium rare pepper sirloin steak
dagnabbit! it's lunch time!! be right back... got to run out and catch a stagg bare-handed and bring it down so I can have lunch. It's the local custom here right? :rolleyes:
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I'm sure. I don't even know much about most states. I've only been to five. That's kind of funny, I've been around the world more than once and I've only really been to 5 states. (not counting places I never left the airport)
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BoneSoft wrote:
I've only been to five.
got you beat. but then I have been to DC as often as I have to other states, yuck, horrible trade-off there. I am pretty lucky, I have been to more states than most living here. I have even been to more than a handful as vacations, not just business trips.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Maximilien wrote:
Well, the first and only time I went to India, the first thing we saw when waking up in the morning was an elephant walking
Where was that in india?
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In Mumbay, near the Santa Cruz airport, I think the airport changed name while we were there a few years ago. I will check to see if I have a picture.
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