From: joshi@cs.purdue.EDU (Anupam Joshi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: soc.culture.tamil
Date: 16 Apr 92 19:20:20 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University

In article <1992Apr16.174423.15237@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> krishnan@ta1.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>The anti-s.c.tamil group says that since Tamil culture is a subset of Indian
>culture, discussions should remain on s.c.indian.  For example:
>
>kumar@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (V.R.Kumar) writes:
>>If a seperate tamil news group is
>>established, this will lead to the formation of other news groups based on
>>languages and then places and finally religions(already established) as well.
>>Its better to discuss about their languages in their own country news group.
>
>
>However, the pro-s.c.tamil group is saying something else.  They are saying
>that Tamil culture is not a subset of Indian culture, but rather a larger set
>which intersects Indian culture, but also intersects Sri Lankan culture, 
>Malaysian culture, African culture, Singaporian culture, etc.

        Er, if Tamil Culture is not a part of Indian Culture, then what is 
 Indian culture ? People from most regions in India are now settled in different
 places in the world, and by your definition, that would leave a nearly empty
 set for "Indian Culture". Let me try to expose the fallacy of the argument
 you present by giving an analogy. People in USA and UK share the same language.
 Many of the American are descendants of people who migrated from UK. Does
 it mean then that there exists something called "English Culture" that is an 
 entity divorced from the British Culture ? 

        Tamil culture developed in India . Migrants took it to the other parts
 of the world with them. In as much that they still identify with Tamil Culture,
 the right place to discuss things about it is in SCI. If a Singaporean, for
 instance, wishes to discuss Sangam literature, S/he should do it in SCI. If
 they wish to discuss PAP or the chewing gum law, they can do so in SCAsean,
 lah!     The argument about the number of articles on SCI is merely a 
 strawman, as others have pointed out before. Most newsreaders let you see
 the article headers, and you can pick and chose the articles you read.
>
>Should all the people who are interested in Tamil culture be required to 
>subscribe to all the s.c.* newsgroups on which Tamil discussions take place.
>
>Or should those people on the s.c.* newsgroups who are interested Tamil also
>subscribe to a s.c.tamil?

    Discussions on Tamil Culture (  or for that matter, any other culture
 that forms the mosaic that we called Indian Culture) should take place on
 SCI. Any persons interested in Tamil culture should subscribe to SCI !

>-- 
>  Murali Krishnan          |	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>  krishnan@cs.uiuc.edu     |	"The most exciting place in Central Illinois"

                                                Anupam Joshi
                                                CS Dept., Purdue university
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