12-25-2006, 03:00 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-Hauma Hamiddha+Dec 24 2006, 09:49 PM-->QUOTE(Hauma Hamiddha @ Dec 24 2006, 09:49 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Americans are particularly interested in knowing about a person's race, just as we might be curious about a person's varNa or jAti. In any paper-work, be it of small or big importance, the American officialdom demands to known your race. Indians living in the mlechCha-desha often have a profound difficulty with this matter because despite comprising a 1/6 th of humanity they do not have a race to describe them. The common categories imposed by the Americans are white, black, Native American, Asian, and "Pacific Islanders".<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
This came from an euro-centric view of Asia.The missumption that asian is a single culture.Such diferent cultures like semitic, indic (indian) and sinic (chinese) are put in the same bowl.Pure ignorance.
This came from an euro-centric view of Asia.The missumption that asian is a single culture.Such diferent cultures like semitic, indic (indian) and sinic (chinese) are put in the same bowl.Pure ignorance.
