09-15-2006, 10:53 PM
comments on Rajeevs Blog.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->#Â TallIndian Says:
September 10th, 2006 at 3:27 am
I grew up in the US and speak from experience as to the damage that can be done by the likes of Witzel/Jha et al.
I still in recall in the 5th grade (circa 1965), our textbook said that Hindus worshipped cows and would still be burning widows if not for the British.
In the 8th grade our textbook said that the overwhelming reason for poverty in India was due to the strictures of Hinduism.
Even in college (1975), I read a paper in peer reviewed journal that said India lagged in economic growth because of Hinduism discouraged entrepeneurship.
I was fortunate in that I had support at home and recall my father telling me in elementary school that this should be lesson in that I need to assume that not everything that I read is 100% true.
My father also suggested back then that I ask my teacher why those same textbooks never seem to mention the religion of the German goverment from 1934 to 1945 or the religion of the rebellious government established in Richmond VA in 1861 to defend the institution of slavery.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->#Â TallIndian Says:
September 10th, 2006 at 3:27 am
I grew up in the US and speak from experience as to the damage that can be done by the likes of Witzel/Jha et al.
I still in recall in the 5th grade (circa 1965), our textbook said that Hindus worshipped cows and would still be burning widows if not for the British.
In the 8th grade our textbook said that the overwhelming reason for poverty in India was due to the strictures of Hinduism.
Even in college (1975), I read a paper in peer reviewed journal that said India lagged in economic growth because of Hinduism discouraged entrepeneurship.
I was fortunate in that I had support at home and recall my father telling me in elementary school that this should be lesson in that I need to assume that not everything that I read is 100% true.
My father also suggested back then that I ask my teacher why those same textbooks never seem to mention the religion of the German goverment from 1934 to 1945 or the religion of the rebellious government established in Richmond VA in 1861 to defend the institution of slavery.
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