Comments on: On toilet paper and cultural differences http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/10/19/on-toilet-paper-and-cultural-differences/ a blog about information Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:37:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Some ramblings on culture « Where Next http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/10/19/on-toilet-paper-and-cultural-differences/comment-page-1/#comment-249169 Some ramblings on culture « Where Next Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:43:02 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/10/19/on-toilet-paper-and-cultural-differences/#comment-249169 [...] by alanbuxton on December 27, 2007 Confused of Calcutta had a great post on cultural differences some weeks back. In it JP references this [...] [...] by alanbuxton on December 27, 2007 Confused of Calcutta had a great post on cultural differences some weeks back. In it JP references this [...]

]]> By: Dark 'n' Cold http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/10/19/on-toilet-paper-and-cultural-differences/comment-page-1/#comment-210037 Dark 'n' Cold Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:09:51 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/10/19/on-toilet-paper-and-cultural-differences/#comment-210037 Black Skin, White Masks By Frantz Fanon Black Skin, White Masks By Frantz Fanon

]]> By: Dark 'n' Cold http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/10/19/on-toilet-paper-and-cultural-differences/comment-page-1/#comment-210036 Dark 'n' Cold Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:00:47 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/10/19/on-toilet-paper-and-cultural-differences/#comment-210036 Within India your name and surname allowed your fellow country men to make an assesment as to your place of origin. I find it sad that as you state for “what ever reason” you felt a foreigner in your own country. However for those of us like myself and my children, born of black parents in a Caucasian country like England, it is always the color of your skin not your name, that makes you a foreigner in the eyes of your fellow country men no matter how British you feel, no matter how integrated we believe we are. Within my own ethnic community, like your own, there are still self inflicted injustices, based around the shade of your skin, the coarseness of your hair, the width of your nose, the thickness of your lips etc. based on misguided aspirations, to map as close as possible to those Caucasian physical characteristics that are deem by those blinked media barons, and sad to say many of my own people, constitute the universal image of beauty, propagated via popular publications and media portals. So the point of my post is this, Cultural diversity within your own country should be celebrated and embraced, however when you feel like a foreigner in your own country due the role of the dice that dictate your parents, your place of birth, and hence your clan, this exposes the ethnic internal prejudices we all have to fight and remove. Therefore JP you and I can never be anymore than a foreigners, no matter where we reside within this planet, even though I was born in this green and pleasant land. I have deliberately stayed away in this post from the subject of religious diversity, another time, another post. Within India your name and surname allowed your fellow country men to make an assesment as to your place of origin. I find it sad that as you state for “what ever reason” you felt a foreigner in your own country. However for those of us like myself and my children, born of black parents in a Caucasian country like England, it is always the color of your skin not your name, that makes you a foreigner in the eyes of your fellow country men no matter how British you feel, no matter how integrated we believe we are.

Within my own ethnic community, like your own, there are still self inflicted injustices, based around the shade of your skin, the coarseness of your hair, the width of your nose, the thickness of your lips etc. based on misguided aspirations, to map as close as possible to those Caucasian physical characteristics that are deem by those blinked media barons, and sad to say many of my own people, constitute the universal image of beauty, propagated via popular publications and media portals.

So the point of my post is this, Cultural diversity within your own country should be celebrated and embraced, however when you feel like a foreigner in your own country due the role of the dice that dictate your parents, your place of birth, and hence your clan, this exposes the ethnic internal prejudices we all have to fight and remove.

Therefore JP you and I can never be anymore than a foreigners, no matter where we reside within this planet, even though I was born in this green and pleasant land.

I have deliberately stayed away in this post from the subject of religious diversity, another time, another post.

]]> By: DE http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/10/19/on-toilet-paper-and-cultural-differences/comment-page-1/#comment-207916 DE Sun, 21 Oct 2007 13:21:53 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/10/19/on-toilet-paper-and-cultural-differences/#comment-207916 Cool; now I can say I have Chinese punctuality. Cool; now I can say I have Chinese punctuality.

]]> By: Sandman http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/10/19/on-toilet-paper-and-cultural-differences/comment-page-1/#comment-207025 Sandman Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:50:01 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/10/19/on-toilet-paper-and-cultural-differences/#comment-207025 Yes, indeed. Indians born outside of India are foreigners everywhere and at home everywhere. But we have learned better than most people in the world how to be tolerant of every culture and to generally fit in. And it continues to evolve with Desi culture bridging the gap between generations and east and west... Yes, indeed. Indians born outside of India are foreigners everywhere and at home everywhere. But we have learned better than most people in the world how to be tolerant of every culture and to generally fit in. And it continues to evolve with Desi culture bridging the gap between generations and east and west…

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