Analyzing The Rammohun's Response

“The Inconvenient Indian” speaks to a general audience and particularly to US and Canada. The book is organized into chapters and each chapter refers to a variety of themes. Some of these themes are history, culture, politics, and laws. By incorporating all these themes,

- His attitude towards the indians is very respectful and he admires how different they do things. He also feels sorry for the indians could not understand him. In my opinion I think he both respected their customs and repelled them. I think he likes some things they do and is really against some things they don’t. If he didn’t like their customs he wouldn’t have joined them. If he repelled them then he would have killed them or not have killed them from the start

“Kochinnenako in Academe” by Paula Gunn Allen exposes the problems not only with the distortion of traditions/texts through interpretation, but the distortion of the purpose of life in general when perspective is limited. I strongly agreed with Allen’s statement regarding the translation of the harmonious, balanced tribal story into a very linear and shallow western story. Allen accurately states “Soon there appear to be heroes, point of view, conflicts, crisis, and resolution…the result is a western story with Indian characters”(Allen 31). After reading through the essay I drew the conclusion that prevalent forces such as western society, tend to obscure the “backgrounds” (other aspects of life), leading to the promotion of a unidimensional, unbalanced lifestyle that is heavily dictated by material gain and loss.

Hindus here, Muslims there. Dacca no longer belongs to us.” He told me that during Partition Hindus and Muslims had set fire to each other’s homes. For many, the idea of eating in the other’s company was still unthinkable. It made no sense to me. Mr. Pirzada and my parents spoke the same language, laughed at the same jokes, looked more or less the same. They ate pickled mangoes with their meals, ate rice every night for supper with their hands. Like my parents, Mr. Pirzada took off his shoes before entering a room, chewed fennel seeds after meals as a digestive, drank no alcohol, for dessert dipped austere biscuits into successive cups of tea. Nevertheless my father insisted that I understand the difference, and he led me to a map of the world taped to the wall over his desk. He seemed concerned that Mr. Pirzada

The religious practices which are still followed in the country, makes one feel that they are living in the primitive world. The story of Roop Kanwar from Deorala , Rajasthan, is a violent and forceful murder, Which was fabricated as ‘Sati’ by the villagers. When speaking about ‘Sati’, Dalrymple enumerates:

Alexie remarks on his experience dealing with this standard, remarking that “a smart Indian is a dangerous person, widely feared and ridiculed by Indians and non-Indians alike” (Alexie). He faced the ‘ideal’ growing up and noticed those who thought against it, like himself, were viewed as “dangerous” — a threat to the majority’s power and capable of subverting the social order; he illustrates one method the majority uses to maintain their power: those who threatened the ‘ideal’ were mocked by both the majority and minorities who were manipulated into adopting the ‘ideal’ way of thinking to force ideological rebels to submit to the ‘ideal’.

Uma Narayan, warns that “understanding, despite great effort and interest, is likely to be incomplete or limited” even amongst the allies of privileged

Ronald Terchek writes this article to describe the viewpoint that Gandhi has on some of the traditions that are present in the Indian culture. The title of his piece ‘Reclaiming a Tradition and Making It Your Own’ is exactly what he writes about, because Gandhi takes his form of Hinduism and he molds the traditions to be more flexible to his own ideas and interests. The reason for this article is to describe how Gandhi and his fellow Indians took parts of their own religion and reformed some of the original traditions which they had believed had become corrupt and ritualized over time. Terchek asks in this article, just why was Gandhi so keen on changing the traditions of his native religion?

Throughout time, Westerners have more or less oppressed Eastern culture, creating the west as the metaphysical head of the world. The west’s ethnocentric tendencies, have acted as a suppressant to the spread of non-western thought. Even though Eastern ideologies tend to differ greatly from thoughts of the western world, there is some level of unity between the two. Unlike the ecclesiastical influences, seen in the west, Confucianism and Sikhi present thoughts about the individual and humankind’s natural goodness. In many cases of political and social order, Eastern and Western philosophy have found themselves parallel in thought.

Culture builds up and shapes how people view the world and the people in it. It determines how we judge and view the way others act, look, and even how they think. In the texts “Where worlds collide”, “An Indian Father’s Plea”, and “Two Kinds”, it is shown that a person’s views of others and the world are solely determined by their culture.

Ram opens up about his culture and religion to the audiences. We also learn that all religions are similar, but all of them share the same concepts. But every culture is different from others. In the book it show us how people all around the world live on a daily basis. By reading this book, it tells us that religion plays a big part in people's life and how it affects them.

On the other hand, culture is formed with wide variety aspects, not only history. For example, language is one of the biggest problems for foreign people understand. “The biggest problem with the word culture is that nobody seems to know exactly what it means, or rather, that it means very different things to different people.” (Scollon. R, Scollon.S.W, Jones.R.H, 2011). In addition, the news about the India crime chief causes outrage with ‘if you can’t prevent rape, you enjoy it’ comment (India crime chief causes outrage, 2013). It is hard for foreigner to understand the situation and the feeling about India rape problem, and this comment may produce negative feeling for the world-wide people. However, Indian may feel normal for this comment, because rape is one of the common crimes in India’s history.

The researcher understood the specific theme chosen and was a bit au-fait with the topic, because she had a keen interest in Gandhi and all his work. In an age where violence is on the increase Gandhi’s message of non-violence is needed. It is the researchers hope that this IA will reach a wide cross section of people and will effect a change. Gandhi’s views on issues like untouchability are deeply dealt with. Never anywhere Gandhi’s views about untouchability were effectively heard. But, in this book they were dealt in detail with lots of arguments and convincing proofs of why untouchability is sin. Even his co-living with the untouchables and the resistance he faced for that is discussed. His views on religion, nationality, his movements like civil-disobedience, are also clearly shown. Even his opinions on many religions were discussed in deep; a striking

Watching these two videos, you can see the problems in their societies and how they are alike. The first video focusing on the culture of hunting and gathering people who have to fight to survive, and the second video focusing on the untouchables of a society. The cultural discrimination in these two cultures are unthinkable. In this essay I will compare and contrast between these two cultures and how they include our terms from the course. The difference between these two cultures is vast as one seems to be a calm and worshipping culture, where the other is violent and unorganized.

Gandhi," Ghosh himself turns into a piece of the activity. Portraying the outcome of Indira Gandhi's death and the resulting slaughter of Sikhs by Hindu swarms, Ghosh expounds on his little part in guaranteeing the wellbeing of a Sikh couple, who, until it was past the point of no return, declined to trust that they could be the objectives of a crowd's wrath. Be that as it may, in spite of the dramatization of that entry, the heart of the paper lies in the little demonstrations of resistance mounted by standard natives insulted by the gore. His expositions spell out little truth from huge