Posted by: lovestosuggest September 19, 2014
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In the end everything boils down to personal freedom. If being Nepali, i want to speak Nepali or Hindi or Maithili or Newar or English or any sign language that should be my freedom. However, there is no guarantee that the listener will understand you. Same thing applies to food you eat or clothes you wear.
Regarding people from Madhes: There are very narrow minded people who have tiny view point of the world we live in and they will remain the same until we teach them the values of personal freedom. This is a herculean task however not impossible. As the generation changes this mind set is changing too. I remember my childhood days when madhesi people were treated badly (verbally abused) and even in kathmandu(which is not my native place) i was surprised to see the racists. But this is changing, I have at least 5 friends who married people from madhesh or were madhesi themselves who married the so called pahade. Nowadays, things are changing and so are the people and their lifestyle. This does not indicate that things for madhesi people or tribal people have completely improved but this is one of the change which indicate our racial or social or another bias is slowly fading away.
Whenever i meet any person, i love to speak in a language he prefers (provided i know his language). Axiomatically, i prefer speaking hindi to people from India or surrounding area who speak that language. When i do this, there are some people who argue with me or suggest me or feel bad for me. But when i speak english the response is mostly on positive side. Why is this? (I suggest this type of people should change themselves, if they think they are cosmopolitan / liberal. ). At the end of the day, the same people are telling me there is hegemony of Nepali or Hindi or Newari or English. Isn't it just a language ?
I am just utterly surprised what people achieve personally when insulting others on such a trivial matter when deep down his ambition or fulfillment does not necessitate this type of behavior.
Just look around and if you are old enough you will discover very new pattern and a beautiful canvass emerging in Nepal which will truly be a 'rangibiragi fulbari'. There are young people who do not consider race, religion, ethnicity etc when making friends or love so please do not try to fill their mind with this idea that we are different and if we are different we should wear, eat, speak and live different.
You got the idea, IT_guy. Don't label people, people are different but at sometime being different we are same (wave particle duality lol). We just show our nature.
Regarding people from Madhes: There are very narrow minded people who have tiny view point of the world we live in and they will remain the same until we teach them the values of personal freedom. This is a herculean task however not impossible. As the generation changes this mind set is changing too. I remember my childhood days when madhesi people were treated badly (verbally abused) and even in kathmandu(which is not my native place) i was surprised to see the racists. But this is changing, I have at least 5 friends who married people from madhesh or were madhesi themselves who married the so called pahade. Nowadays, things are changing and so are the people and their lifestyle. This does not indicate that things for madhesi people or tribal people have completely improved but this is one of the change which indicate our racial or social or another bias is slowly fading away.
Whenever i meet any person, i love to speak in a language he prefers (provided i know his language). Axiomatically, i prefer speaking hindi to people from India or surrounding area who speak that language. When i do this, there are some people who argue with me or suggest me or feel bad for me. But when i speak english the response is mostly on positive side. Why is this? (I suggest this type of people should change themselves, if they think they are cosmopolitan / liberal. ). At the end of the day, the same people are telling me there is hegemony of Nepali or Hindi or Newari or English. Isn't it just a language ?
I am just utterly surprised what people achieve personally when insulting others on such a trivial matter when deep down his ambition or fulfillment does not necessitate this type of behavior.
Just look around and if you are old enough you will discover very new pattern and a beautiful canvass emerging in Nepal which will truly be a 'rangibiragi fulbari'. There are young people who do not consider race, religion, ethnicity etc when making friends or love so please do not try to fill their mind with this idea that we are different and if we are different we should wear, eat, speak and live different.
You got the idea, IT_guy. Don't label people, people are different but at sometime being different we are same (wave particle duality lol). We just show our nature.