<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->far better than what Wendy's spawn at Univ Chicago divinity school and other places, churn out.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Thoroughly agree with this.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->But that is better than the tamasic or evil portrayals of hindu icons that is the current flavour in american academia.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Tamasic is too kind a word to apply to them. Evil is all that's required.
Think I am starting to understand your point: you are proposing that however poor these comics may be in representing Hinduism, at least they will give western kids an alternative and <i>somewhat</i> more positive vision of it, compared to the ueber-lies they were fed in Religion Class. And that if these comics catch on, at least western children won't persecute Hindu children for following the 'evil Hindooo religion'. That is quite possible, and would definitely be a good outcome.
And Hindu children in the US won't grow up to be more self-loathing. (Although they'd not have learnt anything about Hinduism from the comics either, besides having to unlearn a lot of the fictions.)
Still, have more complaints to lodge against the comics themselves:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In these comics Rama is a hero and Devi is a heroine, even though much more rajasic than sattwic.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><i>Tamasic</i> I'd say - ignorance and misinformation.
http://www.virgincomics.com/gallery.html
I looked at every single drawing at that link. See the ones on here and this one for instance. They look positively evil, not to mention ultra-ugly. That's not Devi, who is the very definition of beauty and good.
Christomissionaries will have a field day saying 'look at how evil the false gods of the Hindoooos are'. And then they'll point to the gratuitous gore - battles and blood being devoid of all meaning in these comics - as proof for how 'Calee is evil'. <!--emo&
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Instead of using the opportunity to set the record straight, such images in these comics look to perpetuate the stereotype, from what I get from the visuals.
(Oooh, looks like they ripped off Yuriko/Deathstrike from X-Men here.)
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->One of my son's (and mine heee hee) favorite is Avatar: The Last Airbender Except that Avatar is an amalgamation of vast eastern culture, not just Indian.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->They play that here also. It's a poor attempt to imitate the indomitable Japanese animation. But at least the creators leave the setting in the East instead of appropriating that too, as others in the US have done. From the two episodes I've seen, I like the storylines.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->But that is better than the tamasic or evil portrayals of hindu icons that is the current flavour in american academia.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Tamasic is too kind a word to apply to them. Evil is all that's required.
Think I am starting to understand your point: you are proposing that however poor these comics may be in representing Hinduism, at least they will give western kids an alternative and <i>somewhat</i> more positive vision of it, compared to the ueber-lies they were fed in Religion Class. And that if these comics catch on, at least western children won't persecute Hindu children for following the 'evil Hindooo religion'. That is quite possible, and would definitely be a good outcome.
And Hindu children in the US won't grow up to be more self-loathing. (Although they'd not have learnt anything about Hinduism from the comics either, besides having to unlearn a lot of the fictions.)
Still, have more complaints to lodge against the comics themselves:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In these comics Rama is a hero and Devi is a heroine, even though much more rajasic than sattwic.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><i>Tamasic</i> I'd say - ignorance and misinformation.
http://www.virgincomics.com/gallery.html
I looked at every single drawing at that link. See the ones on here and this one for instance. They look positively evil, not to mention ultra-ugly. That's not Devi, who is the very definition of beauty and good.
Christomissionaries will have a field day saying 'look at how evil the false gods of the Hindoooos are'. And then they'll point to the gratuitous gore - battles and blood being devoid of all meaning in these comics - as proof for how 'Calee is evil'. <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo--> Instead of using the opportunity to set the record straight, such images in these comics look to perpetuate the stereotype, from what I get from the visuals.
(Oooh, looks like they ripped off Yuriko/Deathstrike from X-Men here.)
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->One of my son's (and mine heee hee) favorite is Avatar: The Last Airbender Except that Avatar is an amalgamation of vast eastern culture, not just Indian.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->They play that here also. It's a poor attempt to imitate the indomitable Japanese animation. But at least the creators leave the setting in the East instead of appropriating that too, as others in the US have done. From the two episodes I've seen, I like the storylines.