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Why is it that any other culture can attack and protest about our culture, but we would be ridiculed, harrased, and called racist etc if we did the same thing. Can you imagine the outcry if a westerner stood on the street corner and burned photos of mohammed, protesting ramadan, or protesting the Sankranti festival in india, saying it was evil or something?

it seems like such double standards to me. why do people just not allow others to celebrate what they want, when they want. as long as they are not hurting anyone, what does it matter?

2007-02-14 08:55:14 · 4 answers · asked by Minerva 5 in Society & Culture Other - Society & Culture

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True, it is a double standard. However, it sounds more like it's just an extremist group, not the entire country. I think that people are just angry because they feel that their own way of life is being threatened. It threatens an image in their minds of the way the world should be, so they are doing what they can to get rid of it. However, if they really were stable in their beliefs, things like this wouldn't upset them so much. They would let the world be the way it is because they would have confidence in their own faith. I guess it's not that way in this case.

The weather somewhat hindered the protesting...maybe that could be a sign.

2007-02-14 09:11:02 · answer #1 · answered by Persephone 6 · 1 0

In context, India is a country that has very strict values in regards to public displays of affection - with holding hands even being seen as foreplay. They are struggling under two identities - their traditional values and impending western values.
I think it was just a way of sticking their hand up and saying they still held firm to their traditional values - and I find it really hard to beleive that any one could be so offended by the protest against such a poxy, commercialised event like Valentine's Day.

2007-02-14 18:29:19 · answer #2 · answered by whingybaby 2 · 0 1

They really need a hug! Why protest something that is an optional holiday? What is the point? I would have liked to know more about the group.

2007-02-14 17:03:24 · answer #3 · answered by one in ninety-nine 3 · 1 0

Sell chinese disguises to the gypsies!!! o.o

2007-02-14 17:01:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

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