No LFBC to clear this up? Bummer.

Organization is for sissies.

In India, chaos is the only way to get things done.

Item one, the way the traffic flows.

This is, for a person from the First World, the scariest thing in the world. If you haven't seen it, you should try YouTube. The French are famously wild drivers but they by no means approach the chaotic "flock of birds" effect that Indians manage by combining pedestrians and trucks and cars and buses and sacred cows and camels and rickshaws and motorized rickshaws all going all out in all directions at once.

Item two, the way the Indians do business.

There's a can do, never say die attitude towards making a buck that is awesome to behold. If you ask for something they don't have, they'll get it, fake it, sell you something else, or die trying.

Item three, close enough.

Indians are not perfectionists. They don't have time to do things right. They just do. Some Indian comedians from the UK, the US or Canada can give you an idea of the Indian mentality. For example Russell Peters, Indo-Canadian, Shaun Majumber (Newfoundlander and Indian, two ethnic stereotypes for the prize of one in the graveyard tonight), Sugar Sammy (Canada), Aziz Ansari (USA), Danny Bhoy (UK) etc. I have DVDs of the comedy plus some television roles of all of these.

http://www.russellpeters.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Peters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_Majumder

Just remember, India is a human jungle (with all the ecological niches filled by humans) and Indians are batshiat crazy even by American or British standards of individualism and eccentricity. How else would they end up in places like Madagascar, South Africa, Trinidad or Newfoundland?

Russell Peters is especially good at making fun of the foibles and national quirks of many different "minorities". He grew up in Toronto with Indian, Jamaican and white Canadian friends and thus has a remarkable grip on multiculturalism from the inside and outside at once. He does good impressions of many ethnicities, several of which are his own heritage.

I've seen Peters and Mojumber in American TV roles which are feeble, bland and stereotypical. To really appreciate them you have to see them in front of a Canadian or British audience full of Indians, Pakistanis, Middle Easterners, Blacks, Africans, West Indians, etc. Many of these people have formed a world culture and share a trans-national experience which the rest of us can only imagine.

If you can't handle chaos, stay out of the world.

Speaking of chaos, I've seen third world toilet accommodations. I've been to Italy.

You wouldn't catch me dead in India, despite all the wonderful things and people that can be found there. I just haven't got that much flexibility, adaptability, tolerance for insanity and confusion. I think the British only managed because their governing classes were masters of half-assery and paradox to start with and because they were used to having underlings sort things out for them without asking questions about the details.

I think I understand India, it scares the bejesus out of me at least.

Ha! ha! Comma splice!

Comma Splice would be a good name for a band.

phalamir: paswa17: Gen. Vijay Kumar Singh says he was born in May 1951...met with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other Cabinet members...Jaswant Singh, a former defense minister, warned Tuesday...

Talk about nepotism, these guys are all related!



Just in case you aren't trolling: All Sikh men have the same surname "Singh", even though they are not related in many cases. Beyond this, Singh itself is not relegated to just Sikhs, but is a reasonably common surname in and of itself - think Johnson in the US

Nicely done (& subtle) tip-o-the-hat to redmid17's post?

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