Suppose an IT professional with kids works in Bangalore for 2 years. You will force the kid to learn Kannada. Next the IT person changes job and moves to Hyderabad for next 3 years, then you will force his kid to learn Telgu. Then he moves to Mumbai and Calcutta, so you will force the kid to learn Marathi and Bengali. When he moves to Delhi and Tamil Nadu next you expect him to learn Hindi and Tamil. This whole idea is a joke. How dare does anyone torture a poor kid? If people love their respective languages,they should go ahead and teach those languages to their OWN kids. How dare they force this on OTHER'S kids? This sounds like facism to me.
RE:Why forcing languages is wrong?
by ThoondilKaaran on Feb 22, 2008 04:54 AM Permalink
are you expecting the whole population to spend time and learn a particular language because a few people are moving around?
RE:Why forcing languages is wrong?
by D S on Feb 22, 2008 04:59 AM Permalink
We expect them to be controlled by language politics to make CHAOS, volatility AND CONFUSION in their life guided by their pious politicians who have reserved seat for them in heaven based on language
RE:RE:Why forcing languages is wrong?
by Kumar on Feb 22, 2008 04:59 AM Permalink
No what I am asking is that we don't demand that every time a person passes through a city he learn the language and culture of that place. Knowing the national culture and one national language be it English or Tamil or Hindi should be fine. Also, the number of people moving around is increasing day by day. So don't assume it's only a few people. Why this mentality that if it doesn't hurt me but hurts the 'other', it's fine by me? This is a non-compassionate behavior and is not a sign of a civilized society.
RE:Why forcing languages is wrong?
by ThoondilKaaran on Feb 22, 2008 05:06 AM Permalink
If a person moves from their home state (say TN) to other state (say Andra), it is the responsibility of TN guy to get assimilated in Andra in whatever way he could. The TN guy should not expect a Andra guy to know Tamil language. it is not a civilized expectation...
if you move out of your state, do it in our own risk...
RE:Why forcing languages is wrong?
by Kumar on Feb 22, 2008 04:44 AM Permalink
First they started hating based on religion, then it moved to region and language, next it will move to caste, then to sub-caste. Welcome to the great Indian civil war drama that took a short break under the British rule.
RE:Why forcing languages is wrong?
by Roger Binny on Feb 22, 2008 04:41 AM Permalink
Kumar,,,simple solution to this problem ,,,don't be a Gypsy and wonder around. Stability in life is important. If you can't stay at one job and do it right then, there must be something wrong. Is this your case? Or you are generalizing? You need to learn about facism. Listen India is a linguistic nation, these problems will be there wherever you go.Instead blaming the local populas you should ask what can I do to stay in my state to provide me what I need to survive. Secondly Marathis are not favored by all the International and multinational companies as a destination of business. It is the choice they have and they make Maharashtra as a prime location. We Marathis don't mind if some company opens a center in Patna or Lucknow or anywhere in India. It's upto businesses, not to us. So all this Marathi bashing needs to stop and you guys need to look at where is the real problem. Even if that doesnot happen things will not be normal in Marathi Mumbai and Maharashtra. There is no turning back. There will be a blacklash.
RE:RE:Why forcing languages is wrong?
by Kumar on Feb 22, 2008 04:50 AM Permalink
I am generalizing to prove a point. Since this is confusing you guys, I will simplify the problem. Let's assume a person's father works in Bangalore for 5 years and he is force to learn Kannada in School. Then because of job loss or a company transfer his father moves to say Calcutta, now you are forcing a poor kid to learn a brand new language. This kid for all that matters would probably migrate to US and would need neither Kannda not Bengali. Think of a kid who is in the ninth class and has to appear for the board examination next year and you force him to learn a brand new language from scratch. This is going to effectively spoil his education. Why steal a chance at better life from a poor kid merely to satisfy the language ego of non-compassionate people.
RE:Why forcing languages is wrong?
by jay b on Feb 22, 2008 04:50 AM Permalink
The above is nothing but arrogance of a certain percentage of people of a state which has prospered because of Mumbai and all the people allover india who have directly or indirectly contributed to its development. Now most of the maharashtra is developed (except vidharba) because of mumbai. For ex Pune,Pimpri chinchwad,baramati,nashik,... would never have developed for the same reason.
What the people of mumbai (leave rest of india) have got in return is quite obvious when you visit mumbai.
RE:Why forcing languages is wrong?
by CMat on Feb 22, 2008 05:11 AM Permalink
Kumar forget teaching language, teach ur kid to respect local people, local culture. Thats what will make him/her PROGRESS ..by any chance ur kid learn attitude of Bihari, or UPs ..its going to be questionable otherwise
RE:Why forcing languages is wrong?
by D S on Feb 22, 2008 04:45 AM Permalink
Kumar, if you read the comments, people don't understand your analogy. So many consultants from south and west live in different cities of USA like CHicago, NY, Boston...but they all speak English. Same is true for China. But they won't understand your logic. THEY WANT CHAOS, volatility AND CONFUSION BECAUSE this is what their politicians have trained them into for vote politics.
RE:RE:Why forcing languages is wrong?
by Kumar on Feb 22, 2008 04:55 AM Permalink
D S thank you for bringing this in prespective. I still remeber when in school my teacher used to LIE and claim in USA people need a passport to move from one state to another. When I came here I realized there is simply one national language here, English, so that people bond based on values and don't support crooks based on their narrow language bias.
RE:Why forcing languages is wrong?
by Pyare Mohan on Feb 22, 2008 04:36 AM Permalink
kumar settle down some place. if u change a dozen jobs in such short time u r messing ur kids future urself. why r u worried for ur kids future anyway? he will come to Mumbai work on the docks and do zat puja
RE:RE:Why forcing languages is wrong?
by Kumar on Feb 22, 2008 04:50 AM Permalink
No everyone who doesn't agree with YOU is a facist since you are the one forcing language and not me. hehe.
