Saturday, March 17, 2007
Indian born confused desi - IBCD
the modern indian youth suffers from the "IBCD syndrome"....globalisation has caught up rapidly with the younger generation ....not only impacting trade and commerce but also sensitizing the youth with the culture and lifestyle of foreigners..... a large part of our personality is nurture and not nature ....reading watching and listening to too many western ideas has an impact on our being.... we become a misfit in our own nation...the change in our behavior is gradually becoming noticeable..."live in relationship; rock music; pop idol- britney; nihilism; western philosophy( camus; kafka; freud); beer substituting lemonade; one night stands; kissing in public; divorce; adultery ;shrinks;fashion tv; atheism ;late marriage; homosexuality....the list is never ending.....people have been practising some of what i stated above since long but giving it " metropolitan acceptability" ( note i havnt said indian acceptability) is new..... the problem we face is stranger than what an american born confused desi would have..why? simply because though the parent child generation gap is evident in them atleast the society around them is westernised...with us we have the parent child gap and we stay in a society which is also expressive of the same gap.... some would call this an evolving society i think otherwise since the change is stronger in small pockets and not in the nation as mass resulting in social oddities.... the reason i probably wrote on this subject is because i see my friends as a case in point.....with excessive influence of foreign media ( russian; british american et all) they/ we end up unknowingly behaving a little like them which is obviously seen as strange/showy/weird/quirky/flashy...depending on which part of india you currently residing( in Patna u will be branded as a flashy showoff half male ; in Mumbai u mite be considered normal).... I myself am still not sure how much water this theory holds so i would like to end this post by asking readers to help me find the answer..
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Couldn't agree more with you on this. Guess I'm an IBCD myself!
Btw why the hell did you stop blogging?
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