A few points I'd like to make: 1. In light of Valentine's day, let me begin by discussing this holiday. Valentine's day is a celebration of promiscuity. Nepal will proudly keep depravity out of her doorsteps. It is said that in the United States, every individual has had at leasy one sexual encounter with another individual of the same sex. This is Western Culture, folks. While Nepal does have its knee deep in tantrism and other sexually explicit philophies and forms of art, people are still conservative when it comes to sexual issues. Valentine's Day will lead to Nepal's decadence. This should not be tolerated. I am glad that my right-wing hardliner brethren in India are opposing this Western so-called "holiday" of turpitude and hedonism. Such draconian steps should also be taken in Nepal, or else we're all heading down the road leading straight to hedonism. 2. While modernization is a force to be reckoned with, European hedonistic practices slowly crawling into our culture, thereby destroying our centuries-old heritage, CAN AND MUST be stopped. In the United States, teen pregnancy is very common. Threesomes and menage a trois are so common and for those looking for cheap thrills, head to a swingers' bar. I lived there for two years, until I got tired of America's PORNOGRAPHIC culture. Pornography can in fact be viewed in public places if you know your way. Gang-violence is more rampant than in Nepal, which I found very surprising given that Nepal is not as developed as America per se. 3. America is a depraved nation. As I said before, I lived in America for a couple of years before I got tired of the lack of morality over there. While Bill Clinton was impeached for cheating on his wife, what one forgets is that a Republican senator had to quit because he himself cheated on his wife, yet he was calling for Billie boy to resign. Of course Bill Boy is a moron. Evangelical Christians are so hypocritical that I cringe when I have to THINK why moral issues became such a hot-button issue in the 2004 election. The crux of the matter is that more than 60% evangelicals have had a divorce in America. One gentleman whose surname is Gannon recently got into trouble, because while he was spouting conservative values in a conservative webpage, he was discreetly posting his salacious pictures in homosexual web sites. In other words, he was a giggolo, selling his "service" to please other men, and perhaps himself. The gentleman describes himself as muscular, tall, with 8" cut "bazooka", if you know what I mean. We Nepalis are very much for family values. We respect the elderly and make sure that their every demands are met. We don't induldge in pedophilia. I am sorry to say that, while I respect America's capitalism, I, FOR ONE, cannot support America's hedonism and depravity. 4. Pornography is a work of art in America. They have magazines like Playboy and Hustler that celebrate sexual images of women. One of my American roommates was an avid reader of these magazines, and in fact kept it in the bathroom, so he could read it while he was there. I was so disgusted by this rude gesture of his. How could he assume for one second that I would enjoy such lewd magazines that denigrate women? So ultimately I went to one of my roommate's bathroom the whole semester. He made my life a LIVING HELL. I make this point because pornography in America is like buying candies in a store. They're DIME A DOZEN. They don't understand that these are degrading to women, that they corrupt children, that the enjoyment of pornography is a mental disease. 5. Parties in American schools. Once, one of my American "roommates" forced me to go to a party with him. Now, I never went to a party before, and since I was curious about it, I decided to check it out. Some of the things I saw there has scarred me for life. There were women, many of whom, were wearing very skimpy clothes, braless with transparent tops, and in many cases, pantyless, since I managed to get more than a few peeks because my eyes were wandering. The music was so loud that I felt like I was gonna go deaf. Then there were American men, all drunk, shouting on top of their lungs. I was flabbergasted. Never, ever, had I ever been subjected to such vile behavior. Some of the men were groping women in their bosom area(or "funbags" as they like to call them pairs in America), and the women didn't seem to mind it. All these things were hard to swallow, and made me a bit queasy. So I got the hell out of there. 6. And finally, LOVE is an asinine WESTERN concept. Let me give you the statistics. Almost 55% of American marriages--and American marriages are all based on love--end up in a divorce. My parents who had their marriage arranged, still get along great, and have never had quarrels. Most people don't fall in love. Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet has placed in Western psyche the idea that love really exists. I don't buy this baloney. Here's why. There's no guarantee that a person who claims he has fallen in "love" will always be in love with that person. So in essence, the notion of love is just infatuation that last longer. Therefore, when a Western couple stop falling in "love" they end up with a divorce, which ultimately hurts the children. So instead of love, I think the focus should be on the family. That's why Nepali families are so strong, and I personally don't know any Nepali marriages that ended up with a divorce. Learning to love your wife, even if you didn't love her from the start, is the basis of all Nepali marriages.