Preservation of culture (Page 5)

Originally posted by sareg

Originally posted by qwertyesque

Originally posted by sareg

Lets take it this way

Walking on a street in Chennai, a couple from say UK is into high intensive PDA, what do people in Chennai say?

Now take a Indian man walking on the streets of Montreal, chewing on his Benaras pan and does his usual thing. Is it ok for the locals to come up to him and say this is not allowed here?

When you move to a foreign country you want to bring your personal heritage touch while adapting to the new culture. That is the beauty of North American culture.

Not come along with your whole shibang of native culture, you would stand out like a sore thumb, if you stand out like a sore thumb, people are going to take notice, some are going to take offense, some are going to ridicule(and then you are going to complain racism ).

The bottom line(and not for lipservice only)

When in Rome, Do as Romans do without appearing like monkeys which most of them do when they try doing like americans do. Veri few really can do as the americans do elegantly without having to change themselves drastically... 

I am talking about adaptation you are talking about imitation

you cant adapt without imitating

hmmm, are you sure you know what you are saying here? adaptation means you change your mode of behaviour, keep the basics in tact but still change enough to suite the new system, imitation is blind copying... ya ya imitation is blind copy.. adaptation is just a thoughtful copy - a copy nonetheless....... Its memorising the their idioms...etc.. One of my experiences is about this "wassup?" One fine morning i met Richard in the coffee room and I ended up asking him " Hey Dick Whats up? and i just froze... but he didnt get that.. so it was ok"..... (ok before people start thinking i am calling names.. Dick is a christian nick for Richard like Robert is bob, william is bill etc)

Ok let us stay with this example, were you saying "Hey Dick, what's up?" b'cos you were imitating other people? and just saying b'cos others are saying or was it b'cos you were genuinely saying it. If one is Genuinely saying it you just say it and you are looking forward to a conversation or planning to walk away. If you are imitating yes you are always conscious about what you are doing. See the difference between adaptation and imitation

... Dhona chod key pochna shuru karna may be adaptation or imitation.. the question is how much you are into using that paper at home..... Imitation is with appearance and behavior and I am not talking about that.....unless you give me some good examples of adaptation

culture means everything behaviour, language, religion, rituals, norms of law/morality ok .. if you think about each of these there is a mix of imitation and tolerance.. and tolerance is enforced by law.. so doesnt really matter if you want to "adapt" anyway...

staying with your example of greeting others, I still havent seen a law to that effect

now when I talked about adaptation,does one need to embrace the beleif and value system, NO, but one needs to adapt.Embrace and how do we do that.?. tacit compliance is in my opinion acceptance...What u saying is  Tolerance is adaptation then according to you - so if a gal shows more than 5 inches of cleavage you dont scream immoral!!!!!!.. You glance enjoy and adapt... what u might think adaptation is already enforced by law so dont have that as an option.

ok since we are in clothing

When you are on a beach in Virginia, you wear a short b'cos the weather is of that type and it is a norm, if you wear a suit, nobody is going to stop you

Reverse, if you are walking in a shorts in say Talewada, the reaction might include "eh Pandu ala re" or "eh gotya doun cup chaha ane re"

hopefully that clears the confusion between imitation and adaptation

I am not going to get into viel and burkha thing b'cos there is an extra-sensitivity around that here at IF(see adapting)...