10-27-2006, 07:57 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->About rural Hindus, do you mean that a white Hindu has never gone to any rural village? Do rurals think white people MUSTN'T be Hindu because of the origins, or they only have never seen a WH? There aren't white Hindus living anywhere India? Nor in the cityes?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Well there maybe some European's who went to villages but most Hindus who live in villages never see a white person in real life, also the one's they see most of the time maybe tourists and Christians, many times they can be missionaries harvesting the souls.
Also in rural areas literacy is not that great compared to urban areas so people don't really know that much about the outside world, I am not saying they think white people can't be Hindus, I am just saying that they get shocked because the whole concept is foreign to them because they never even think along those lines in everyday life and think that all white people must be Christians (especially if they interacted with the missionary vultures).
But once you explain to them, many of them will understand. It's not just white people, many Hindus don't even know that Bali Island in Indonesia is over 90% Hindu, so if a Balinese Hindu visits Indian villages he/she might get the same curious looks in the beginning because people don't know.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->If so I'll come one day, converted to Hinduism(I'm near to this) and it will be the first time I'll visit India.. But I'll come with a sari and the bindi on my forehead to see the surprised reaction of rural people!! <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Well yes, you might get some curious looks because people in rural areas might have never even seen a white person in real life, so it's a kind of inquisitiveness/curiosity for many of them for the first few times, then they get used to it.
Well there maybe some European's who went to villages but most Hindus who live in villages never see a white person in real life, also the one's they see most of the time maybe tourists and Christians, many times they can be missionaries harvesting the souls.
Also in rural areas literacy is not that great compared to urban areas so people don't really know that much about the outside world, I am not saying they think white people can't be Hindus, I am just saying that they get shocked because the whole concept is foreign to them because they never even think along those lines in everyday life and think that all white people must be Christians (especially if they interacted with the missionary vultures).
But once you explain to them, many of them will understand. It's not just white people, many Hindus don't even know that Bali Island in Indonesia is over 90% Hindu, so if a Balinese Hindu visits Indian villages he/she might get the same curious looks in the beginning because people don't know.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->If so I'll come one day, converted to Hinduism(I'm near to this) and it will be the first time I'll visit India.. But I'll come with a sari and the bindi on my forehead to see the surprised reaction of rural people!! <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Well yes, you might get some curious looks because people in rural areas might have never even seen a white person in real life, so it's a kind of inquisitiveness/curiosity for many of them for the first few times, then they get used to it.