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Why should us Bir Nepalese be so afraid of India?
Do you really feel that India and Indian culture are such a threat to your children that you need to 'protect them from it?' Do you really feel that us Nepalese are that weak that we need to stay away from the Indian disease, in such an active way, otherwise we will get the 'Indian Cancer?' What exactly is the harm that comes from this "Indian Cancer?" What is your greatest fear?
Do you really feel us Nepalese are not strong enough about our own identity that we need to be so fearful of Indian culture or influence? Are we truly incapable of accepting how Indians are different and respecting them for how they are different from us?
Can we not, similiarily, demand, that they respect how we are different from them? Why do we need to shake in fear of Indians and be so scared? Is there no way to promote Nepali culture on its own merit, without showing that it is anti-India? Only Nepalese, who are not clear about the beauty and uniqueness of their own Nepali culture will promote Nepali culture on the basis of 'we are not India.' Of course we are not India. In the world stage, we are a lot more than just not being India. Our beauty, strength, uniqueness is NOT defined by how much we are not India.
I don't understand people who can simply define Nepal's identity as being 'not India.'
I would like to hope that you will give your children strong enough cultural roots and that they will know who they are as Nepalese in such a bold and clean way, that your children will not have a single doubt about who they are. I would imagine that they will be able to boldly hit their chest and say, "Yes, I am a Nepali." But why, would you teach your children to be afraid of, and to run away from exposure of any kind, including Indian culture? What exactly are you afraid will get erased from your children if they expose themselves to Indian culture?
Have you truly not gained anything culturally from the Hindi movies you have seen? Have you truly not seen any parallels of Nepali culture and how society in Nepal works from the Hindi movies? I know many Nepalese watched the Mahabharat and Ramayan and other television serials on Doordarshan and learned a great deal about their own cultural roots.
Nepal is it's own unique culture. We have a lot of similarities with India. And what I am saying is that if we are clear about what we are and what we are not, we can associate and benefit from what India has to offer, without being threatened by India and needing to demonize Indian culture.