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| Rainmaker |
Posted
on 30-Jul-02 05:36 PM
Nepricans and conventions
All of them looked like the indigenous breed from the Himalayas, an amalgamated version of the Indians, Hispanics and the Chinese in one mortal being. Endowed with tremendous musical talents, they were a bunch of drunkards assembled for a good hooting time in one of the hotels in the city of Minneapolis. There was basically three groups of people assembled, first the ladies, beautiful but already chosen or married, another consisted of the graduates, distinguished by their pouting beer bellies and their conversation about networking, computers, and whatever...and finally, the young bachelor students, with no hope of finding anymore beautiful girls and obviously drunk.
They flocked from Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, and the other states in the mid-west. With a bastardized accent between the American and the Nepalese, everybody barked wearing a princely aspect. Like a bunch of crabs in a basket, we love to pull each other’s legs. In other words we are bound by the habit of mocking one another and the same thing was prevalent within the vicinity that summer day.
I went to the rendezvous to share my similarities with my so-called own people, but to my dismay discovered a lot of discrepancies between us. We are more egocentric than ethnocentric, and that I know now for sure. Namaste, meaning I salute the god in you, was trodden by the cliché, whasssup dude?
The MC’s mounted on the stage as if it were a warhorse. It is definitely an arduous task to host a formal event in front of the dwarfy looking culturally lost Nepricans. They normally receive showers of abusive comments as a courtesy from the hooters. As usual artists with tremendous talents walked the stage, some with a bunch of applauds and some with tumults. Legendary songs and tunes echoed that ballroom impostering an auditorium, namely sweet home okhaldunga, jati maya and others.. At the end they all managed to earn some sort of veneration from the audience. My surveilling eyes caught a sigh of relief engraved on the faces, of the organizers, disguised in smiles. A successful event without any brawls must be dancing inside their minds, I reckoned. It was 1:00 hours in the morning and the show was over. The only people left in the vicinity were some volunteers, the hotel employees and some of my drunk people harassing the bartender, asking her to sell them some more of the aqua vitae. A slogan for the day.. Drink till you die..
------rainmaker
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| abc |
Posted
on 30-Jul-02 06:54 PM
Nice write up......Keep it up buddy....
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| Junkie |
Posted
on 30-Jul-02 07:44 PM
Hey Rainmaker ..... well covered and equally well written. But I refuse to believe that "we are bound by the habit of mocking one another" is a bad habit. Since did we have to conform tothe westernized view of "mocking someone" is a leg's up attitude. That infact is the very start of being "neprican" ...one that is ingrained into you and hard to let go despite changing the boxers into daural suruwal.
No offence though! It's just that I recently argued in my class that while western culture use "humor" to put one down.....such is clearly not the case in eastern philosophy. Infact "hasi thata" is a major mark of friendship ...... It's when ppl smile infront of you and quickly change their views and say "hya tyo keta/keti tah testai ho...... pidit" ..... : )
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| Rainmaker |
Posted
on 31-Jul-02 12:57 AM
i got your point junkie, mocking is a norm in our society, and it is nothing bad. but i am not proud of it either....i would rather not opt to follow such norms. it is all yours, keep it safe as you seem to advocate it loudly....
"it is not daily increase, it is daily decrease ....... hack away the unessential"
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| Suna |
Posted
on 31-Jul-02 07:03 AM
Nice write-up. I know nice is not an adjective but I am a tiny bit short on bombastic words this morning.
I think this was the closest I, myself, would have come to describing shows that I have attended. You did forget to mention the MCs addressing mostly in English but to be fair to Puru, I think one is in a dilemma as to how one should be addressing Nepricans :).
I do have one thing I wanted to comment on and maybe I am a bit sensitive about my height and the height of my family members and the Nepalese people in general BUT what exactly did you mean by dwarfy looking ....Nepricans. I think that we have been referred to by many as being small whereas Nordic people have been referred to as being big. Why then the connotation that being short is negative and being tall is positive? I am of average height back home and I was pretty comfortable with that but it wasn't until I got here that I suddenly became aware that I was politely referred to as being petite! All because of this western notion of beauty in a few big cities. Being short has a lot to do with one's genes and nutrition (no I was not malnourished!) and geographical environment. If you look around you there are more and more Nepalese who are considerably taller than their ancestors or even their parents. Therefore you generalized comment would not describe the Nepalese youth of today. AND maybe by some freak of nature you are 7 feet tall.
A conversation I once had with my 6'2" African relative:
My you are petite!! what size shoes do you wear?
(at this point stooping to peck me on my cheek making me feel acutely aware that I was, yes, short and like she was this big wonderful, glorious person)
Me: Wow you are sooo tall. Do you know what they call people like you back in my country? Ghoda: meaning horse. One without any grace or charm!
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| Shanti |
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on 31-Jul-02 09:17 AM
What Neprican convention is this in Minneapolis? I know only two conventions happened this year one in Washington D.C and another in Detroit, Michiga. Was there any other convention too?
You guys are right that Nepali loves to pull each other's leg only rather support each other.
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| Biruwa |
Posted
on 31-Jul-02 10:03 AM
yes, Nepalese pull each others legs. For example, calling nepali people in general dwarfy is one of the leg pulling things. Is being smaller than the americans bad? People have not learnt not to discriminate based on physical appearance,religion etc. even afer coming here.
Then again calling pot belly and other such obscenities is another use of bad words. But we Nepali people enjoy it when we call others that.
I myself don't have a pot belly neither drink beer all night but I thought that there could have been a better constructive criticism, maybe.
I have noticed that the Indians in general are extremely helpful when it comes to their fellow countrymen. U guys must have heard the joke about the barber, right! But nepali people think only for themself. For example, I heard that there were a few nepalis who got the cheap tickets (some flaw in airline system, sometime back), but didn't tell their fellow nepalis but it spread like wild fire in indian community.
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on 31-Jul-02 01:15 PM
I agree with Biruwa...The criticism could have been done with better words and also Indians are very helpful among their own....they are even very helpful if you are their no matter what the religion.....jasto reputation bhaye ni they are one of the most helpful ppl I know...agreed not all but mostly....
And what the heck is wrong in being called small?? If you are small then why cant ppl call you small? Oh please! dont tell me its rude or something...till now I was in the impression that "how rude" is what the amrikans say for everything.....khoi I dont see no humour in the way they "pull the legs" either......
Everyone has different ways of acceptiong things and perception...fully agreed!... you do have the right to say whatever you wanna say....agreed to that too.... just dont be so hypocritical please....you are calling others DWARF, DRUNKS AND POTBELLIED middle agers boasting and saying that you DO NOT criticise....hullowww....!!!if criticising is in out "culture" as you guys put it (or maybe I understood that) so what? atleast we know we criticise and everything is not RUDE somehow!
oh well do comment further dont stop here!
;)
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| Cutie |
Posted
on 31-Jul-02 01:20 PM
Well the man is just writing what he saw.
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| Rainmaker |
Posted
on 31-Jul-02 03:24 PM
People!!!!!!!!111 my whole point was to make this thing a little humorous, hilarious... so i guess, you guys should take it a little lightly for there are more important things to discuss about, for instance, the corruption in nepal... the poverty..you name all the bad things and it is there..
i know that it hurts when it strikes you..and i like the retaliation, how bout channelizing this aggression towards fighting corruption in nepal?.. it might work....
and again you so-called educated fools ... stop accusing the bahuns for everything. Blame yourselves and do something about it..... lastly i am not a bahun ....
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| Junkie |
Posted
on 31-Jul-02 08:43 PM
Hya Rainmaker bhai ......
if only Mockery was half as bad as slandering ...... I'd be quarter the man I used to be .......
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