Yes; We classify people based on where they come from. Ohh He is a Bihari, or that Bengali fellow, he will never work after tea! The same goes for Malyalis and Tamils and Gujaratis!
Even If you leave the country, the regional discrimination will not leave you! Then you start to think, he is a Bangladeshi; that fellow is just like all Turks!
So; why is it that we have a typical mindset about the various groups of people? What does it take to build a people? Don't we all say and believe that each and every one of us is unique? Then how can we be grouped and stereotyped into one mold?
Then what builds an image of a people? Who is a typical specimen of an average person? Why; we all have certain exceptional qualities. Then how can you be average? Borrowing from the Japanese Yin and Yang; we are all good just as we are all bad.
Would it not then become the responsibility of the speaker to make a fair evaluation of a community before he describes them in generality?
Would you take a remark from someone in good taste, if it were to be typecasting you in one of the 'typical' categories? it would be just like stripping you off all your talents and beauties; and placing you there with a profile with nothing exceptional!
Now; this comes from a typical Indian; who having worked and lived with most of the nationalities and cultural groups of the world feels that people all over the world are the same; all looking for genuine love, satisfaction in their jobs and a comfortable living. Yet each one I have met is unique, as he is so different from his fellow countrymen, sometimes in looks, sometimes in thought and sometimes in style! I find that the Micro has enlarged to the Macro; and the Macro has shrunk to the Micro... You could enlarge your society of 300 houses to half the world; and find remarkable similarities; or you could look into just one family and find striking dissimilarities!
So once again I ask my readers; We, the People; What is it that defines us?
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