the_dunk_tank @hexbear.net Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name] @hexbear.net 12 mo. ago

let them fight.

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stop calling them sir. At one point India was actually hard to oppress what happened to them
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  Isn't it interesting that politeness and subjugation have the same vocabulary?
  
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  I guarantee you Indians were taught to call people sir by people who view calling someone sir as acknowledgement that they are superior to you
  
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  As an Englishman I know well the history. I've also known a hell of a lot of Indian people to know they are people of great character, intellect and culture.
  
  is this a bit or do you actually not realize how this comes off? the colonized don't need or want compliments from the colonizers. they want back what was stolen from them.
  
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  I've also known many Indians and I have never heard one of them call anyone sir
  
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  that's a really stupid point to make obviously I listen to what people say and these people don't call people sir
  
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  As an Englishman I know well the history
  
  Please sahib, explain the customs of these exotic people of the Orient of which you are an expert. Regale us with tales of your service with the British Raj among the unenlightened Hindoos
  
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  no I contributed my own relevant experience to the conversation. You say that Indians often casually call people sir. I have grown up in an area with a high proportion of Indian immigrants and known and worked with many both raised in the UK and recent immigrants and have not known them to call people sir. My point being is that it is clearly a more complicated cultural thing than you were saying
  
  Tell you what next time I'm talking to an Indian I'll ask about it as they should have a better idea of their own culture than we have
  
  As an indian , born and living in india , I feel indians only use sir under subjugation , however sometimes its out of respect ( like calling a scientist or someone sir out of respect for their contributions)
  
  that actually sounds very similar to the British usage
  
  In the past
  
  you say that like sir doesn't carry the same meaning in non-colonial bourgeois contexts. sir is for children and servants to address their 'betters', it's politeness in that the people involved conform to the behavior expected of their social positions
  
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