From: rachada@icaen.uiowa.edu (Ramakrishna Chada)
Subject: Re: I HATE TAMILS (2) (Respect other's)
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 19:12:15 GMT
Organization: Iowa Computer Aided Engineering Network, University of Iowa

In article <19AUG199209392130@utkvx4.utk.edu> raj@utkvx4.utk.edu (S. KANAKA RAJ) writes:
>In article <1992Aug19.055657.10740@news.uiowa.edu>,
>rachada@icaen.uiowa.edu (Ramakrishna Chada) writes...
>
>>I have just expressed my opinion and I dont understand where I said that my
>>ideas are superior. Stop being delirious.
>
>"Hey idiotic Tamilians. Learn Indhi which is such a great language. You are 
>losing your life without learning it." This is what people who try to impose
>Indhi say. Now do they not mean that Indhi is superior to other languages? I
>would like to see Samaskridham (Sanskrit) being taught in schools which is
>indeed ONE of the rich languages; but not Indhi which is first of all not a
>pure language. It is a masaala language.
>
>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>   I respect my mother does not mean that I hate the mothers of others.
>
>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>

You are jumping to conclusions. If you think that I ever said hindi is superior 
to other languages then my assumptions that you are being delirious are quite
right. Most people love their mother tongue and I also do mine(which is Telugu). 
That doesn't however stop me from appreciating the beautiful language Hindi.
While talking of Hindi as a masala language you could have atleast spelled the 
name of the great language samskritam right. 

Appreciating a language doesn't mean you are ready to allow its imposition. 
Imposition means using force and that necessarily means going against the
will of those being imposed upon. I am fully against the imposition of Hindi
as "the" language on the non-hindi speaking people. If Hindi is imposed as 
the language(in the sense that all official transactions are in hindi) then 
the non-hindi speaking(south indians included) definitely stand to lose. The 
average person in the non-hindi speaking regions of the country will be at a
disadvantage against the average person in the Hindi speaking region.    
 
There is also this feeling that every person in the nation should know Hindi,
if he doesn't then he is good for nothing. This has been betrayed by quite a
few of my North Indian friends/acquaintances who have had a good educational
background. I think this feeling is more common with the common masses of the
hindi belt. This is a feeling of intolerance and ignorance of the other languages 
that have developed as well as Hindi, over several centuries. This feeling is  
directly related to the apparent lack of knowledge of the other parts of the
country. Such lack of knowledge is shameful and they need to do something
on this front before they ask the rest of the country to know Hindi. People
would become more tolerant if they have better exposure to the languages and
traditions of the other parts of the country.

Many of the above things apply to most tamilians I know. They are quite intolerant
of hindi. For that matter their ability to tolerate telugu seems to stem from 
the idea that it has its origins in tamil/dravidian family. They are quite closed
as a group. This I found true even with my friends who have had the best 
education anybody could. I am not saying that they would hate others but they 
show this birds of same feather flock together thing. And the feather here is   
that you should be a tamilian. They show strong tendencies as a community and
deal at a relatively superficial level with others. I cannot think of a reason
why, just as I cannot imagine how the well educated north indians can be ignorant
of their countrymen.
For whatever reason, people in the other parts of the country seem to be more
tolerant in this respect.

I have only talked about appreciating each other's languages and traditions. 
I oppose imposition of Hindi as well I can. I do not think there is a need for
using Hindi as a "official" language in non-hindi speaking regions.

These are only my opinions. Please read in qualifiers like "most" wherever
you can. There are exceptions to everything. 

Ramakrishna   
Xref: sparky soc.culture.tamil:1231 soc.culture.indian:28698