Hindu/Indian Culture Outside India

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I think it's actually a compliment to Hinduism. In essence, it's treating Hindu imagery the same way Christian imagery is treated in what is still a predominan­tly Christian country. It's also got to do with the fact that so much of Hindu thought, especially Vedanta, has been soaked up into American culture that we think it belongs to us as well as to "the Hindus." In other words, our Christian culture is becoming a transrelig­ious culture, a Christian/­HIndu (Vedanta)/­Buddhist/T­aoist culture. (I don't mean to insult Islam by leaving it out, but I think we are still in the process of figuring out how to relate to Islam, and Islam is in the process of doing the same with the rest of the world. Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism have also become transcultu­ral whereas Islam is in a developmen­tal phase.)

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