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To: arun gera who wrote (58516)	1/8/2005 5:34:41 PM
From: LKO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Does an upper class snooty person in the US goes to the same parties as the person in the hoods. And no cliques will form when they all get together in times of trouble. Don't you watch Survivor? <g> Cliques are different than discrimination. If because of ones race, one is not allowed to sit where they want on a bus, that is discrimination. That happened not too long ago in US. And probably discrimination (real discrimnation of an ugly kind, not class-based social cliques) still happens in US today. In a recent PBS McNeil's program on English, an african American linguist stated that there parts of South where he woudl still not be comfortable going around alone. It is probably true and you will not find anyone strongly denying that. I realize that India has stronger class differences than the US. I am not disputing that. All I am saying is some elements of the media are playing up these minor problem. The West (and Indian media does that too) wants to look at India only through the lens of Hindu- Muslim or caste differences. They should not be that lazy and do actual reporting not just strengthen the prejudices of the Western audience. That is where I disagree about that specific news. That item was reporting it. I do not deny that media indulges in stereotyping sometimes, but that is not most often the case. They are minor problems and the press reports them as such. Are you seeing any good stories about people helping other people in India without the help of "foreign aid". How often do you hear that? And you seem to have an awareness about India. You must be watching network/Fox TV news :-). I read the nicely liberal biased media and I see plenty of people helping people stories with no westerners involved. And even if they are, what is wrong when reporting them to a western audience ? There have been plenty of reports of local charity heroes on PBS news, New York times, Washington post in the context of this tsunami. Tell me truthfully. Don't people in India help each other in times of trouble? Do they call it charity? Do they spend time patting themselves in the back all the time that they helped someone in trouble. Yes there are people in India doing good charity work and I have read/seen/heard plenty about it. You seem to prefer people who do charity without publicity. Yes, there are people who are nobler and stay anonymous. Others are ego motivated and publicise their charity. Different motivations for different people and I don't care as long as they do charity. You can have an opinion that one kind is better than others but I don't think publicity of charity for feel good, marketing whatever reasons is that evil.