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randall is curious,
JUTPUT what are your origins?
I for one, thinking that you or your family come from the sub continent of India would never think of classifying a whole country as you have.
SnooseControl will say I lie.
If you/your people are Indian aren't you proud of that multitude of people of "DIFFERENT" races that occupy an area from the Himalayas to Ceylon (OOOPS) Shri Lanka.
The "BRITS" - a word I personally hate - but language is an ever growing thing and you cannot stop it as the Academy Francias(?) has found out trying to keep "French" PURE.
Don't forget that Jinna, the creator of Pakistan said on his deathbed that it was the biggest mistake in his life to fight to divide "old" India. He was deeply distraught that he had succeeded and saddened by the wholesale slaughter that had followed.
Ghandi is still an example to the whole world.
I am proud that that my origins come from the Indo-Germanic tradition including our languages.
The Arabs may have given us numbers 1 to 9 but it was your people who thought up the conception of "0" - ZERO and without it where would the computers of today be without their binary code?
Look for similarities - not differences.
Your obsession with "SEX" is not reflected by all the young and old - being a democracy we tend to tolerate those who are "different" in our midst and once that stops there is neither freedom or democracy.
I can assure you that I know thousands of people who have never, ever allowed alcohol to pass their lips - even when the doctors told them to do so.
The pub (or workers' clubs) might be the social center of life in an English town or village - I envy them - it was my lot to be born into a people who's social center will always be a church - af any denomination.
If anyone was narrow minded it was my lot to be born into them.
I cannot change their way of thinking and with your attitude you will never change anyone.
One of my closest friends was Asha Samson - an Indian Jew; and I had two other close friends named Collaco, but spelt differently, who both came from Goa. I have travelled both the east and west coasts of India so feel that I have a fairly good knowledge of the land and its people. And their totally different languages.
At the sudden death of my close friend Moti Advani - from the Sind province - was the first time I really cried my eyes out at a funeral.
My father in law had a saying which may well apply to you.
There's not much wrong with you that years will not cure.
But you will have to open your eyes a bit more.
God bless you and give you those years.
randall
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