Comment on american culture
murtaza64@programming.dev 2 weeks agofucking crazy to denigrate South Asia like that when you made the effort to respect culture for all the other regions you mentioned. I guess all the other countries you mentioned don’t have a history of racism, classism, nepotism, sexism or religion?
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No they do but for most of them it’s sort of died off in the last 200 years.
In India, it doesn’t seem to be declining much…
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Looks like it’s being lifted up.
murtaza64@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
I would actually argue that in many ways it’s increasing, at least in Pakistan where I have family, but these aren’t the only countries with growing fascism and regressive social politics (see lots of Europe and of course the US).
But your comment was about stories of cultural importance, not race or gender or class; I can’t help but feel offended that you would choose to shit on my culture for some reason instead of identifying relevant stories like you did for the other cultures you mentioned in your comment. I agree that those -isms should be criticized, but India definitely caught a stray from your comment.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, and I did very poorly represent my case. I really didn’t give it much effort or thought, and I apologize for that. It just appears from an outsiders perspective that the Caste System, while not officially in effect, is an integral part of India’s society and it shows in their films and TV. This is also true for the USA whose poor record of Civil Rights is also a continued focus for films and TV.