cultural identity
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Its time that people stop trying to appropriate Western institutions and terms. And start defining and using their own. Also stop trying to prove themselves to these dumbnuts. Tha...
this is a vexed problem that needs a clear lens 1. modernity has destroyed the economic basis for community formation 2. therefore, the modern world is one of individuals rather t...
Hindu Americans are richest on par w Jews but have lowest fertility in US+too politically irrelevant 1 thing they should learn from Jews instead of simping for Israel, is building...
Again false. Islamization didn't result in Turkification. We know this because Muslim Armenians, Muslim Bosniaks, Muslim Albanians who converted to Islam under the rule of Turks di...
I am part of the 2nd generation born in the so-called "Recovered Territories"– formerly German lands that are now part of Poland. In the spirit of Lower Silesian pride, I'd like t...
I realized in #Ujjain while speaking on the occasion of GuruTegBahadur ji’s punyatithi organized by Bharat Raksha Munch: “Why should the ‘Mighty Tree’ make efforts to appease the...
A bit different for me. I grew up Catholic, and the first time I learned there was another religion was when I was about 7. I asked my mother why my best friend at the time didn't...
Some of Raja Rao's essays & writings are now out: https://t.co/M2yecR3Kfo https://t.co/Gm3qFndhGt
"While leaving Goa for farther East, Francis Xavier said: "I want to be where there are no Moslems or Jews. Give me out-and-out pagans" Here,Francis Xavier was formulating his expe...
In 1978, Native philosopher Fausto Reinaga (Quechua-Aymara) called on Mestizos (assimilated Natives) to return to their Indigenous identity. Too many have yet to hear his call 🧵 1/...
Friend of mine got his DNA tested, his results were kinda cool so thought to share. His father is a Brahmin from Jammu and his mother is Northern European. His Y-haplogroup is R1a-...
the same thing they praise us for is the same thing they want to erradicate https://t.co/McOQAdYFPX
1/x: A thread on Hindutva - by a Sikh. The basics 1st >> Hindutva is an etymologically, lexicologically & historically more accurate term for Hinduism (which is not an ‘ism’ in the...
Being Nilotic (Dark skin) in #Ethiopia Growing up in #Gambella, I have always been curious about the second-class citizen treatment the #Anuak people have always faced. We were ne...
“We are after their fake 33 crores Gods and Goddesses (referring to Hindu deities) and they are roaming around with our golden Buddha.” - Rajratna Ambedkar, religious supremacist...
Decolonized Buffalo supporting claims that Sacheen Littlefeather is a pretendian is just the surface of a greater problem. DB also labels reconnecting Latin American Natives as pre...
Lot of debates going on about the Chola dynasty's religious identity. Thankfully, the Cholas themselves have left plenty of surprising data that answer such debates. Leaving poli...
More than a decade ago I was pleasantly surprised when on a visit to India a young niece who had been brought up for most of her life in the US recited the Hanuman Chalisa fluentl...
Spirit of Cricket is like Secularism, something English won't follow themselves but made mandatory for brown shoulders. England will remain constitutional monarchy but BBC will ca...
My grandparents were from India. My parents from Pakistan. I was born and raised in London and am proud to call Britain my home. 🧵A long thread 1/12
People from outside may not understand that Ukraine is not fighting for its statehood and independence but its existence. If Russia won, there would be no Ukrainian language, cultu...
The notion of Sanskrit being a dead language is actually the pet-hypothesis of Sheldon Pollock. In his article 'Death of Sanskrit' published in 2001, he makes it clear that one of...
Mainlander Han have this really delusional belief that they’re somehow “Anti-Western” while Indians worship the West in everything. Last I checked, it isn’t Indians who move to t...
An attack on Arab visual identity. What an abhorrently disgusting and racist cover from @TheEconomist. It’s disturbing to think that there are people that have agreed on putting...
