We have the nature of believing whatever said by a foreigner, foreign company, or foreign culture, especially the western. But we do not have that belief in our country's counterpart. This is mainly due to the idea which is incepted (not in dream) in minds of our people by the British for their benefit ie)divide and rule India.
They created enmity among ourselves. For instance when British came to India, they tried to spread their religion and convert all Indians to their religion. Conversion is considered as sacred in Christianity and still there are funds coming from countries like Italy to such missions in India. But in the beginning it was hard to convert for them as people such as Brahmins spread good moral values to people. So they created enmity in minds of people against Brahmins, that they suppress other community. For a community to suppress the others, the community must either have money or power. But Brahmins had neither. So they can no way suppress others. The idea is incepted in minds of Indians by foreigners.
Many scholars like Rajaji cited Gita and said that the term 'Aryan' does not refer some racial term, but refer to one who is of good character. Dravidian refer to the people who live at southern part. 'Dravidian' is not opposite of 'Aryan'. The opposite of 'Aryan' is 'Anaryan'. But we believed what foreigners like Max Muller said the baseless stupid stories of war.
We started accepting the truth only when these arguments are backed by foreign researchers like Michael Danino in his book, 'The Invasion That Never Was'.
People did not accept that Ramayana, and Mahabharatha are not just myths but the history. There were many criticisms on characters of vanaras for monkeys could not speak. But it reduced when it was accepted that there could be a race who are intermediate between human and monkeys, and vanaras are not monkeys. This was backed by Darwin's theory.
The same applies to characters like Jaambavaan, who was like a bear. But Darwin's theory applies here too as bear and human has some resembling characters say bear is the only animal which can cry like human.
These instances shows that we have more belief on theories by foreigners than by our own.
There are many Indian companies which produce products of good quality and also of less price. But most of the people go for foreign brands though they are costly. There is a craze for products of Amway among people, and they sell all of their products for more than 3 times the cost of other products. They say that they give for direct cost rather than coming through many levels like other products. If so, the products must be much cheaper, but it is not so. A 200 gm tooth paste costs Rs.250. But people beleive in the stupid stories they say and buy them.
Amway encourages a type of marketing called 'Multi-Level marketing'. say if I join in that group by paying some initial amount, then I look for some more people to join for I need to get benefited. The rule here is, "I got cheated. So I look for some more people to get cheated". Is this a good thought?
I hope there is no word required about the impact of western culture over our culture.
We need to come out of the attraction on foreign culture, brands, etc and understand the greatness of ours. We need to understand that the idea that foreign is always better than ours is not our own idea, but incepted into our minds by others. Think rationally to understand the truth.
Jaihind
They created enmity among ourselves. For instance when British came to India, they tried to spread their religion and convert all Indians to their religion. Conversion is considered as sacred in Christianity and still there are funds coming from countries like Italy to such missions in India. But in the beginning it was hard to convert for them as people such as Brahmins spread good moral values to people. So they created enmity in minds of people against Brahmins, that they suppress other community. For a community to suppress the others, the community must either have money or power. But Brahmins had neither. So they can no way suppress others. The idea is incepted in minds of Indians by foreigners.
Many scholars like Rajaji cited Gita and said that the term 'Aryan' does not refer some racial term, but refer to one who is of good character. Dravidian refer to the people who live at southern part. 'Dravidian' is not opposite of 'Aryan'. The opposite of 'Aryan' is 'Anaryan'. But we believed what foreigners like Max Muller said the baseless stupid stories of war.
We started accepting the truth only when these arguments are backed by foreign researchers like Michael Danino in his book, 'The Invasion That Never Was'.
People did not accept that Ramayana, and Mahabharatha are not just myths but the history. There were many criticisms on characters of vanaras for monkeys could not speak. But it reduced when it was accepted that there could be a race who are intermediate between human and monkeys, and vanaras are not monkeys. This was backed by Darwin's theory.
The same applies to characters like Jaambavaan, who was like a bear. But Darwin's theory applies here too as bear and human has some resembling characters say bear is the only animal which can cry like human.
These instances shows that we have more belief on theories by foreigners than by our own.
There are many Indian companies which produce products of good quality and also of less price. But most of the people go for foreign brands though they are costly. There is a craze for products of Amway among people, and they sell all of their products for more than 3 times the cost of other products. They say that they give for direct cost rather than coming through many levels like other products. If so, the products must be much cheaper, but it is not so. A 200 gm tooth paste costs Rs.250. But people beleive in the stupid stories they say and buy them.
Amway encourages a type of marketing called 'Multi-Level marketing'. say if I join in that group by paying some initial amount, then I look for some more people to join for I need to get benefited. The rule here is, "I got cheated. So I look for some more people to get cheated". Is this a good thought?
I hope there is no word required about the impact of western culture over our culture.
We need to come out of the attraction on foreign culture, brands, etc and understand the greatness of ours. We need to understand that the idea that foreign is always better than ours is not our own idea, but incepted into our minds by others. Think rationally to understand the truth.
Jaihind
good post madhu :) keep posting..i really like to read ur flow of thoughts.
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