[Assam] assam Digest, Vol 5, Issue 47

[Chan Mahanta]

>   Sometimes I feel angry with the way people refer to Assam - they 
>say we are >not very competent that's why trying to agitate and 
>raise voices against the >hindi speaking people !


*** One reason could be seen right here in assamnet -- that certain assamese
denigrate their own as the CAUSE of their problems, that they are 
incompetent, corrupt, lazy and what have you, and thus deserve to be 
exploited. They spread the myth that people of Assam are that way due 
to a genetic disposition or cultural ethos. Of course the accusers 
themselves are ABOVE that. They must have escaped the genetic curse 
by some divine selection process.

Points to the Indian system of education and its failure to promote 
critical thinking further stymied by a pre-conceived notion of a 
problem or solutions there-for.

We are just as competent, as good, as industrious as anybody else in 
the world. Just look at all those who left. It is not the air or the 
water of their adopted lands or that they are somehow waded out of a 
better gene-pool that assured their successes.

Unfortunately Indian governmental system, further degraded by the 
complicity of the ruling class in Assam, has created the environment 
of low expectations, of state policy-manufactured winners and losers 
in life's many lotteries -- in every sphere of human endeavor; helped 
not only the robbing of our natural assets  but continues to try and 
make it appear to be the natural law, and have systematically 
destroyed the incentives to be productive while being accountable to 
society and the common good.

I hope folks like yourselves will not take this bull-**** lying down 
ever again, and tell those self-loathing,spineless and clueless 
blabber-mouth patriot wannabes off at every opportunity you get.

Defiantly as always and proudly as an Assamese,

cm
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