[lbo-talk] Re:cockburn's "false" take on india

[frank scott]

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>" uvj at vsnl.com wrote:
>A normal foreign tourist visits Delhi, views Taj Mahal
>at Agra and moves on to Jaipur/Udaipur in Rajasthan. Radical
>tourists visit Mumbai slums and brothels !"
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the subjective "tourist" is not just a problem for radicals...americans 
come to a place like new york and visit museums, see shows, or operas, 
and go home with tales of glamor and glitter...or they get mugged, see 
dirty streets, are treated gruffly by someone, and describe their 
experience as being in a living hell ...and they speak  (relatively) the 
same language and are from (relatively) the same culture...and their 
experience is certainly , subjectively true, while it doesn't say shit 
about the experience of millions of new yorkers who never see a show, an 
opera, etc...

give cockburn a break, and maybe check your own bias: should he have 
only spoken to the new yuppie class? and totally disregarded any other 
reality in india, like, say, the dreadful situation of those who 
suffered in the recent floods, partly because they are not part of the 
wonderful progress enjoyed by  those surfing on the information tech wave?

fs