12-01-2004, 05:05 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-Karkala Joishy+Aug 22 2004, 10:12 AM-->QUOTE(Karkala Joishy @ Aug 22 2004, 10:12 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Dewanand,
How many Hindus are there in The Netherlands? Are they persecuted? Why don't you guys organize yourselves like the Muslims do? Thats been a major failing of us Hindus. We have failed to organize ourselves and speak in one voice.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
There are about a 150.000 hindus in The Netherlands. We are not being persecuted <!--emo&:lol:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /><!--endemo--> . Instead hindus are one of the most succesfull minorities when it comes to education and social-economic progress. The only threath that we hindus have here is not preserving our culture. Many of our youth don't speak their motherlanguage (me neither unfortunateley <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo--> ) for example. And they also don't know much about their religion or visit a mandir.
We are organized sort or less, there is a central hindu council to represent the hindu community for communicating with the government. And there are more small associations for hindu activitities etc.
I often hear the criticism of my people that there is no unity among us in the netherlands. Is this also the case in India and in other places where hindus have setled? Some say it's in our blood. <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Can you give any tips how we should organize? How we can create more unity?
How many Hindus are there in The Netherlands? Are they persecuted? Why don't you guys organize yourselves like the Muslims do? Thats been a major failing of us Hindus. We have failed to organize ourselves and speak in one voice.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
There are about a 150.000 hindus in The Netherlands. We are not being persecuted <!--emo&:lol:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /><!--endemo--> . Instead hindus are one of the most succesfull minorities when it comes to education and social-economic progress. The only threath that we hindus have here is not preserving our culture. Many of our youth don't speak their motherlanguage (me neither unfortunateley <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo--> ) for example. And they also don't know much about their religion or visit a mandir. We are organized sort or less, there is a central hindu council to represent the hindu community for communicating with the government. And there are more small associations for hindu activitities etc.
I often hear the criticism of my people that there is no unity among us in the netherlands. Is this also the case in India and in other places where hindus have setled? Some say it's in our blood. <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo--> Can you give any tips how we should organize? How we can create more unity?