Re: Jain Diet

On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 01:52:05 +0000, dsi100@yahoo.com (dsi1) wrote:

On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 1:14:30 +0000, Bruce wrote:
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I thought you didn't include Indians, Saudi Arabians and Turkmenistani
in "Asians".

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Americans don't typically consider Indian people to be Asians. Mostly
it's because they are so different culturally from the Chinese and
Japanese. The same is true for the Filipinos. For Americans, it's not a
matter of geography but of culture. In the end, culture is more
important than proximity.

Following that reasoning, Greeks aren't Europeans because they're
culturally different from Dutch and English.

I used to open up the extremely large Asian collection at the school
library on Saturday. I had to go to the back of the library to get to
the light switch. Sometimes I did it in complete darkness. It was a long
walk back there through the Indian section. The books reeked of cumin
and coriander i.e., curry. The pulp paper of the books was infused with
the stuff.

Yes, Indians are rather olfactorily overwhelming. I once went to a
grog shop next to an Indian restaurant. It was run by Anglo
Australians but smelled heavily of curry.

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Bruce
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