You are attacking me. I do not want to attack back.
It is quite evident that some raw nerve has been touched.
My attempt is at explaining things that not evident to the native-English speakers.
As to the Institute, you mention, there is no institute anywhere that I have alluded to. The books on the Slavery on the subcontinent is an excerpt from the Native Life in Travancore written by Rev. Samuel Matteers. I do not think he is from any ‘institute’.
The book on Castes and tribes of Southern India is a book by Edgar Thurston. He is also not known to be from any ‘institute’. Both these are of fabulous content. However, I can’t insist that you should read them.
As to writing all this for some marketing ploy, well, there seems to be no marking ploy in free digital books, the printed version of the same are sold by many publishers. There is no reason for me to take up that point as a point for discussion here.
As to European languages having feudal content, please check my writing, before mentioning anything that comes into your mind. Check these words of mine:
QUOTE: I am aware that at least some of the Continental European languages do have some kind of feudal element in them. Even Celtic languages of Britain, I suspect, do have them, at least in some quantity. END OF QUOTE
Again my words: QUOTE: “In English nations all populations and individuals arrive at an equal platform.” END OF QUOTE. This is a statement that requires a lot of explanation. For England has feudalism and Lords and Ladies, and even a monarchy. Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Brazil, France, etc. do not have. There is much to be mentioned about this contradiction. I can’t take it up in this small place.
Again, QUOTE: native-land sub-human culture. END OF QUOTE. I did not really understand what your expletives meant. Africa had a lot of problems, including slavery, cannibalism etc. None of these things can be mentioned as of now. However, what your words were I cannot understand other than that you were doing some kind of spitting at me.
QUOTE: They could have all been taken back to Africa.”END OF QUOTE. Well, look at the first picture I had posted of them coming as slaves. It is only correct that when someone has been taken forcefully from his native land, he has to be saved and send back. Will any of them really love to go back to Africa?
Your words QUOTE: The experience of slavery is different in Asia and other parts” END OF QUOTE. That is the point. Had they been even a household servant in the South Asian Subcontinent or even in Africa, their human development would have been doubtful.
About the complaints and demands of the newly improved populations:
It is for this simple reason that in South Asia, people are wary of giving a lower downtrodden person a chance to improve. If and when they improve, they have more complaints, and rights and demands. Keep them down is the social philosophy in the subcontinent.
I have personally seen householders who speak good English, prohibiting their servants from speaking English. For once they learn English, the essential creepy subordination that the lower grade words for You, He, She etc. enforces vanishes.
My words QUOTE: “in the subcontinent there might not be much mention of all these things at all” END OF QUOTE. There is no need for any fight to improve anyone. A simple shift from the feudal vernaculars to English, I have seen doing wonders. For instance, in your own home, if you allow your servants to converse in English, they will improve beyond anyone’s wildest dreams. I have seen this. However, would any householder dare to do this?
Now, a quote of your words: QUOTE: But as a person who speaks both Tamil and English on a daily basis, END OF QUOTE., and your comment on that: QUOTE: You are using both languages too, aren’t you? END OF QUOTE.
The idea is not about anyone talk, but about the shifting of human dignity as one shifts from planar-English to a feudal language. It is not that it is anyone’s fault. It is just that it is there. I can imagine the plight of the native-English, when they stand despoiled in words, without they not have any inkling of it.
QUOTE: Each language has it’s own beauty. Why don’t you try to find it? END OF QUOTE. I need to mention that feudal languages have more ‘beauty’ than English. As to finding it and such things personally are not the issue here.
QUOTE: one which stands up for all humanity and the other that discriminates. I stand for the first END OF QUOTE.
I do not think you understand what you are saying. Standing for ‘all humanity’ (whatever that was supposed to mean)and then simply disregarding the sinister-ness of languages that discriminates. These seems to be some discordance.
QUOTE: beaten up into a pulp in the local police station END OF QUOTE Let us not shift the issue by asking me to google. The point is about the Avan- individual (lower grade He) trying to encroach into the social space of the Avar- individual (higher He).
Speaking about Gun violence against Asians, well there was a very similar discussion with a particular language Asian group in the US, when one of their members were shot dead by the native-Englishman. I simply mention the mental trigger in the native language. As usual, in a similar tone that you have adopted, only insulting words came. However, by the next morning, the US community organisation of the that group came out with an advise to their members to refrain from speaking their native-language in pubic in the US. I should say that the point was understood and accepted by someone over there. That was the link I gave.
As you say so many persons talk so many reasons. However, the real trigger is in the language codes.
Now, about racism towards African blacks, well, it is nothing in the US compared to what it is in the subcontinent.
To finish this cantankerous conversation, I should mention that I think you need to know a lot more. I thought you would take some time to understand ideas that possibly were never pondered upon by you before. Instead of that, your only thoughts were to attack me and sort of spit at me.
However, I can take all that in my stride, even though generally I am very careful about who I converse with.
I will be posting a general idea about the features of feudal languages here, most probably tomorrow. It is not personally intended for you. It is just that if there are any native-English reader who cannot get a head or tail about what a feudal language is, it might give some information.
As to all this writing being a some marketing ploy, I think formal education has given you such ideas. There is no marketing ploy in any of my writings. If at all, my writings are all available for free. Please do not imagine that I am trying to sell books to you. That would be too preposterous an imagination.
If it is publicity that I am after, I do not find any enjoyment in such things, I can admit.