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To: LKO who wrote (58533)	1/8/2005 10:19:26 PM
From: arun gera	Respond to of 74559

OT We seem to be referring to different texts. My post was to: Message 20926547 The slant may have come from the poster. The complete posting is slightly more balanced but still sensationalized and made into "another caste story" about India. >In a complex society of India such an occurrence is not inconceivable but very believable.> Of course it is not inconceivable. >Maybe that Dalit gentlemen was a sleaze-bag trying to score unreal discrimination points, but I am familiar enough with the social context in rural India to not automatically dismiss this story.> I don't think that the Dalit gentleman was a sleaze bag. Most likely he did not get a fair treatment. It just seems that the reporter was willing to tell the international audience what they want to hear. >In US, also there are african americans who run into the problem of DWB (driving while black) snd stopped by police and african americans who will (mis)represent and fail to take responsibilities for their own faults and blame convenient "discrimination".> But how would you like that story to be reported in international press every time something like that happens? And caste is only one out of three types of news stories written about India - caste, Hindu-Muslim, disasters (outsourcing makes it the fourth type these days). Anyway. Enough on this topic, as you say. -Arun