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Nationalist in the European context is clearly one language, one religion and one culture. In the India context, nationalism is a unifying force finding a comm
by naruvimama 5y ago
Nationalist in the European context is clearly one language, one religion and one culture.
In the India context, nationalism is a unifying force finding a commonality beyond the hundreds of diverse languages and cultures that India is made of.
I do not see why that is a bad thing.
- r00fus 5y agoIndia had all that before Modi. No, I definitely don't think Modi is a good guy.
- naruvimama 5y agoThat is because Indians have always been patriots inspite of the poverty. You may think that, but the people of India think otherwise and that if why he has an overwhelming popularity.
- addicted 5y agoHe has overwhelming popularity because he is good at lying to people. When it comes to state elections the Modi government has been getting creamed because his subordinates at the state level are not as good as lying to people.
- random314 5y ago> In the India context, nationalism is a unifying force finding a commonality beyond the hundreds of diverse languages and cultures that India is made of. You skipped the key plank of nationalist Indian politics - religion. Who are the new Jews of India? The backstabbers of the nation? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth
- naruvimama 5y agoUnlike the Jews in Germany, the Muslims and Christians in India are very much Indian. As the recent PEW survey shows, a large percentage hold Hindu values and think of it as culturally superior. Hinduism is also the culture of converted peoples, as the vast majority were coerced to convert. Importing the experience of Europe into India is meaningless.
- random314 5y agoVirtually every thing you wrote is false. 1. Jews were also German 2. Indian muslims don't think of Hinduism as culturally superior 3. The vast majority were not forced at all. There have been only very few events of this nature. Conservatism, all over the world, follows the same methodology. Fake and fantasy made up "history", identification of the "other" that must be eliminated, innate sense of superiority of the in group that the state must enforce, innate belief in hierarchy with little sympathy for those at the bottom.
- naruvimama 5y ago1. Jews were ethnically not white. 2. PEW research states that. 3. The vast majority of the Islamic and Christian conversion happened under Islamic and Christian colonial rule. I guess the problems you are referring to is the hallmark of Christianity & Islam which preach for the wiping out of nonbelievers. If anything must change it is the Bible and quaran.
- random314 5y agoYou are very consistently lying 1. Jews were German 2. False. PEW research doesn't state that 3. The vast majority of conversion from native animist and dravidian religions also happened under hindu rule. Same holds for Buddhism in India. Islamic rule was not colonial.
- naruvimama 5y ago1. Jews are semite people, you are confusing nationality with ethnicity. 2. ....... a significant percentage of xtian/Muslims mention somewhere around 30% 3. Syrian Christians in India pre date Christianity in Europe, yet it was insignificant until colonization. Buddhism in my view is a subset of Hinduism. Islamic rule involved massive destruction of heritage, universities, libraries, temples, tributes to Perssia and the Caliphate, genocides and impossition of Persian script and Arabic, imposition of jizya.