i love my country (INDIA), do you ?

Answer 1

I've never been to India. But, I love the Indian embroidered fabrics that I sometimes see. I love yoga (both hatha & the philosophic side of it). I like a lot of Indian food. I love henna tatoos and traditional Indian clothing. Indian people, culture & music always seems to be so exotic and beautiful. But, you always hear about the poor and the economic & social disparities. I hope to one day visit it, experience the country & get a better idea for what India and her people are like. It sounds like a facinating and richly diverse country to visit and experience.

As for my home country, the USA, it's a love-hate relationship. When I spent three weeks in Canada last summer I came to apprecite certain things about the US, like having a capitalist-style health care system rather than a socialist one. On one hand it sounds rather nice to have free health care for all. But, I heard stories from some of my Canadian classmates about having to wait for several months for necessary medical tests after a knee injury because the wait list was just so long. That's absolutely unheard of here in the USA, even with the beaurocracy of HMOs.

It also got to be tiresome having to constantly make conversions from metric & Canadian dollars to US meassurements. However, I am fully aware that the rest of the world uses metric and that it is a system that tends to make a lot more sense. US meassurements are rather random ..... freezing temperature is 32 degrees fareinheit. Why??? In celcius it's 0 degrees and 100 degrees is boiling. I can't even remember what boiling temperature is in fareinheit! :-) Of course the fact that the US stubbornly snubs the metric system that the rest of the world uses is in and of itself another thing to dislike about the US. :p

While I did miss certain things about the US that I am used to there are many things that cause much consternation ...... For instance the US has a government that is currently run by a moron who most of us can't stand & rarely agree with. How he ever got reelected is beyong me!!!!!! There is too much polution, too much commercialism (esp. when you are trying to raise a young child with sound, non-materialistic values and a healthy sense of self esteem). People often work too much ... though not as much as people in Japan and probably other parts of Asia it is still much more than people in most (if not all) of Europe and I'd imagine other parts of the world as well. Both in terms of hours per week and amount of vacation time taken.

Too many people are uptight about a mother publicly breastfeeding while they glorify sexual images of a woman's breasts (and the rest of her body). It's completely ***-backwards, if you ask me. There's too much pressure on mothers about how they feed their child & regardless of which choice she makes she's liable to feel ridiculed by someone and internally by most of society.

There's too much emphasis on trying to make little babies independent rather than accepting their natural dependence and the fact that they drastically change your lifestyle. There's too much seperation between children and the rest of "grown up" life. Children are expected in many instances to be seperated... to not go to museums and fancy restaurants, to weddings, fancy events, parties .... even a fundraiser for my daughter's preschool!!! (She was the only one there!) It's completely ridiculous!!!! I understand that in most of the world children are involved in the lives of their family and the people in their community. It's so different and I don't know how or why the US has gotten it so wrong!!!

The attachment-parenting movement is starting to gain some momentum and actually recognizes that it's important to foster *healthy attachment* with babies and children in order for them to grow into *confident*, *healthy*, *independent* adults. But, it's still a minority, "hippie" movement that too many people misunderstand and criticize.

I understand that in most of the rest of the world a mother's natural instincts are valued and that they rule how a mother responds to her infant instead of telling young mothers not to "spoil" their baby by holding them too much or responding to their cries too soon or telling them to let their child "cry it out" if s/he should awaken in the middle of the night. It's tantamount to emotional child abuse if you ask me!!!

I hear that in most of the rest of the world infants sleep with their mother (as nature intended), mothers breastfeed without so much as a second glance & often as long as the child wants. In the US it's practically scandellous if a mother breastfeeds her child past 12 or 18 months whereas in the rest of the world the length of breastfeeding is something like 3 or 4 years. Or so I hear. It's such an amazing difference. In the US, despite recommendations by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the World Health Organization aprox. 1/3 of infants are still breastfed at six months.... aprox. 3/4 of mothers start out breastfeeding. So, it seems that there is a lack of support (both emotional from family, the father, friends & coworkers and practical to help her with problems & difficulties that may come up), pressures to return to work too soon and not enough allowances made to accomodate a breastfeeding mother in the workplace and in public, misinformation dolled out by some physicians, prevalence in media & in physicians' offices of formula despite the lip service that "breast is best." There are so many discrepancies! I even had a pediatrician tell me that I should scale back how much I was nursing my very healthy, happy four-month old daughter because I didn't actually know how often I was nursing her and therefore it must be too much. WTF!?!?!

I'm sure others could go on and on about political / government and social problems..... still others about the environmental issues facing our country and how the US is far behind other industrialized countries .... particularly those in Europe. The US doesn't seem to be taking issues of peak oil, global warming or sustainability seriously enough and that's a scary and very dangerous stance for one of the world's largest countries to be taking. There's too much abuse of the environment.... too much control and influence in government by those who lobby for big coporations that log our forest, drill for oil and otherwise care only about the bottom line and not how it affects mother nature. The abuses are endless. But, at least we have the freedom for activisits to fight back and grassroots organizations to try to spread information, educate the public and fight in congress for laws that will help to protect our precious environment.

I hate the xenophobia that has exploded since 9/11. It existed before 9/11. But, that day's events and its aftermath greatly exacerbated and intensified that problem. I heard a story on NPR the other day about the struggles that Chinese immigrants had to go through around the turn of the century and into the beginning of the 20th century. Things like the Chinese exclusion act, anti-misegination laws, anti-Chinese sentiments, and restrictive covenenants that prevented non-whites from purchasing land were mentioned. Things that are widely recognized now as being wrong and racist. But, then you hear stories about the government trying to strengthen our borders to keep out illegal immigrants (just like we tried to keep out the Chinese & later discrimiated against Japanese and other people of color). The question is debated about whether immigrants are taking away jobs from US citizens ..... just like it was debated about hard-working Chinese immigrants in the west who came out here to build our railroads and later found and did whatever work they could. The echoes of our not too distant past are deafening! Yet so many people stand defiantly yelling about how many ills illegal immigrants plague our country with. It's disgusting and saddening!!!

Yet, the US is comprised of people of so many different lands and cultures. And that is at least one thing that most Americans seem to value, if not understand. The diversity of people in this country and in cities like Los Angeles / states like California is one of the things that I love the most. So, in spite of all the many many many things that drive me nuts, make me mad and that I wish I could change I would have a hard time giving that up for anything else! We need not travel around the world to experience different cuisines, meet people from different places, hear different languages & different music, see different kinds of entertainment, dances & art or find books in another language.

Answer 2

Can't say I love it bc I have never been there but I hope to visit someday. I'm sure I will at least like it a lot. You have awsome food, beautiful art and a very interesting history and religion. Most of the Indian people here in the US are really nice.

Bahamadude, LOL. We can't be that bad. We have people from all over the world living here by choice so if we suck the whole world must suck, right?

Oh wait, I just read Spartan Rob's response. OK on second thought maybe we do suck.

Answer 3

I loved India. I went to Andra Pradesh and a ton a rural villages doing work with BIRDS, a non religious group to help Dalites. Though I did get sick, from the Malaria meds, not the food. Though I could have done without the monkey's stealing my stuff!

Answer 4

Certainly and especially South India

Answer 5

Do I love India or Do I love my country?

I like India. Can't say I love it.

I LOVE my country. USA!

Answer 6

Yes. India has a great sense of history, mythology, and culture. To be able to visit the great temples and ride the trains would be a once in a life time experience that would bring my history studies to life.

Answer 7

I live in the USA. It is far and away the greatest country in the history of civilization. We are more prosperous than any other land. We have the best military in history. We have the most freedoms. We have the most opportunity. This is a great land, blessed by God. God Bless America

Answer 8

I love India and i'm extremely proud to be an Indian.

Answer 9

Yes I love my country, England

Answer 10

make the question " we love our country INDIA, do you?"

'cause I'm also Indian & love the country.

Everyone loves their motherland, as parents love their children, whether they are good, handicapped, smart.

Lets all love the World.

Answer 11

I am an Indian and love my country for what it is.