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**9mm_fan** · 04-11-2006, 12:40 AM

Consider the following story,
Some 1000 years back some foreigners lets say from country X with superior technology came to Europe . They saw that the Europeans were divided into groups like German, English, French,Spanish and so on. They also noticed that they were fighting with each other a lot. Since the X had advanced technology decided to exploit the situation and by sheer cunning took over all of Europe. Now came the problem, X found it hard to rule over a huge territory. They ruled over Europe as one country, simultaneously increased the rift between the states by exploiting their existing enmity. The X found it hard to learn all the European languages and hence promoted their language XL. The Spanish did not want to learn German and the French sure did not want to learn English. Everyone accepted that using XL as a mean of common language was better, remember the European thought that X were much superior to them.
Finally the Europeans decided enough was enough and fought back, under a single umbrella of Europe. The fact that they were different countries was long forgotten. They did succeed in the end and were granted self rule by X as 2 different countries one Europe and the other England. The reason being that rest of Europe is Catholic while England is Protestant.
How will Europe be after independence? They are all speaking language X and debating if Greek or Latin is older and if Greek is derived form Latin or vice versa. They are trying hard to erase the recent past of occupation by resorting to how rich European culture was before X came.
Isn’t this story relevant to what we are experiencing now in India.
Bengalis and Punjabis are as different as Polish and Spanish. The common thread is that they are both Hindus in the former case and Catholic in the latter.

I think we should appreciate our differences and look at the better aspects in each other cultures.

04-11-2006, 12:40 AM	#26
9mm_fan Join Date May 2007 Age 53 Posts 5,191 Senior Member	Consider the following story, Some 1000 years back some foreigners lets say from country X with superior technology came to Europe . They saw that the Europeans were divided into groups like German, English, French,Spanish and so on. They also noticed that they were fighting with each other a lot. Since the X had advanced technology decided to exploit the situation and by sheer cunning took over all of Europe. Now came the problem, X found it hard to rule over a huge territory. They ruled over Europe as one country, simultaneously increased the rift between the states by exploiting their existing enmity. The X found it hard to learn all the European languages and hence promoted their language XL. The Spanish did not want to learn German and the French sure did not want to learn English. Everyone accepted that using XL as a mean of common language was better, remember the European thought that X were much superior to them. Finally the Europeans decided enough was enough and fought back, under a single umbrella of Europe. The fact that they were different countries was long forgotten. They did succeed in the end and were granted self rule by X as 2 different countries one Europe and the other England. The reason being that rest of Europe is Catholic while England is Protestant. How will Europe be after independence? They are all speaking language X and debating if Greek or Latin is older and if Greek is derived form Latin or vice versa. They are trying hard to erase the recent past of occupation by resorting to how rich European culture was before X came. Isn’t this story relevant to what we are experiencing now in India. Bengalis and Punjabis are as different as Polish and Spanish. The common thread is that they are both Hindus in the former case and Catholic in the latter. I think we should appreciate our differences and look at the better aspects in each other cultures.
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