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**Fegasderty** · 11-28-2005, 08:00 AM

When I reads this thread, this only came to my mind immediately. I had this friend in my school who is a dalit and his father was a cobbler. We were in the same class for almost three years continuously. And whenever the new class begins each year, that teacher - student introduction formality was there. And each one will get up and tell his name and tell what was his father. And I still remember that face, when he had to tell the whole class and in front of his new teacher what was his father doing.

And we have about 18-20% tamil population similar to my friend.
What would be the reaction if any body ask them about their heritage and their culture? Would they not prefer a "robotic" uniformity? Would they not actually prefer that "my life, feelings and soul shall be lost and forgotten in any kind of race including the technological rat race"

Is this looming threat of cultural uniformity and lose of heritage are actually the result of the silent curse of generation after generation of those people?

11-28-2005, 08:00 AM	#2
Fegasderty Join Date Mar 2008 Posts 5,023 Senior Member	When I reads this thread, this only came to my mind immediately. I had this friend in my school who is a dalit and his father was a cobbler. We were in the same class for almost three years continuously. And whenever the new class begins each year, that teacher - student introduction formality was there. And each one will get up and tell his name and tell what was his father. And I still remember that face, when he had to tell the whole class and in front of his new teacher what was his father doing. And we have about 18-20% tamil population similar to my friend. What would be the reaction if any body ask them about their heritage and their culture? Would they not prefer a "robotic" uniformity? Would they not actually prefer that "my life, feelings and soul shall be lost and forgotten in any kind of race including the technological rat race" Is this looming threat of cultural uniformity and lose of heritage are actually the result of the silent curse of generation after generation of those people?
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