Here is my list of the indicators to the level of effect of the process of "Globalization:... in various regions of the world ...for when the question of of the level of globalization occurs..
I will approximately define Globalization as :
Globalization :
The level of integration of
a)modern and popular machinery/ technology from the Western spheres ( mostly america and to lesser Extent Europe )... a
and
b) a level of western( american and european)... method of thought and perspective towards the core aspects of culture via machinery/technology
into the other regions of the world that are otherwise lesser in the quantity and concentration of the above elements ( a and b ). The other regions would be .. most of europe , Africa , All arabic countries, All Muslim Countries, India, China, Korea, Japan, and those smaller countries neighboring these )
Indicators / Signss ( in cities )
1) There is an Authentic Indian Restaurant operated by Indians with Indian cooks that is also renowned and popular throughout the city.
2) There is a competeing Indian restaurant owned by Bangladeshi/Pakistani/SriLankan/Nepali people also adevertising Indian food that tastes good but tastes noticeable different
3) All Rebelious children idolize the current American Rap Superstar...as their role models in life
4) All those outside the rap targer audience also know...the names and albums of some rappers..
5) People with no savings and working menial jobs have Facebook Accounts
6) The state of the art cutting edge Public computer access facilities for those who cannot afford computers...are full of people chatting on MSN messenger .
7 ) Marijuana/ Hashish is as easiesr to access( purchase and use ) than bottled water or diet coke cola.
8 ) There are some poor and English Illiterate Indians and/or Chinese people working harder than any other community through difficult menial jobs.
9 ) The forward univeristy educated elite minority class go to Mcdonalds expecting the finest cuisine America can make while purposely wearing expensive clothes that most of the population can not afford all as a fashion statement..
10) Europeans come to live there becuase it is cheaper than living in Europe.. and think that the local populatiion are nice people
11) There is a higher rate of abortion ... why?
a) higher access and encouragement to use condoms increases the level of "activity" in the community resulting.. in higher preganacy results... where the majority of the cases can not accomodate the pregancy and must inevitable chose abortion.
b) greater political and cultural allowance for abortion.
12) The higher access to American pornograpgy on the internet reduces the demand for the local "sleeze" industry..
13) People from cold weathered northen Europe adults are buying guest houses there... and are living there 6 months out of the year.
14) Boys have to time share their attention to Euro football.. and American NBA Basketball coverage available on the internet.
15.) Many young girls secretly marry or run off with European/American tourist men as a means of escaping family directed traditional culture..
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Friday, December 19, 2008
Southall , Wembly , and others of the sort
After I recently and reluctantly visited London, I came across some strong surprises.
My senses regarding people atleast were mostl alert when i came across the notorious "south asian" or Indian community.. ( which actually includes the now sovereign "countries" of India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and lesser known Nepal , Bhutan, and Maldives )
Even though I had heard alot about them and watched Bend It Like Beckham...it was still an awakening experience to confront them in person.
After I arrived in london...
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Fair and Lovely... Lara Dutta... ?
I first saw Lara Dutta.. on an Indian TV station a few years ago and had no idea who she is , her claim to fame , or what sort of Indian she is .
My first thought was ... why is her first name Lara... is she mixed as an anglo indian or is she christian...? that was my first thought...
Later... I foudn that she was an aspiring hindi film actor.. and that her claim to fame was winning a Miss Universe pageant representing India....and naturally that ensured her a role in a hindi movie.
She was part of the new generation of hindi stars ... reprenting the new brand of " JISM " movies.. of the new modern Vijay Mallya endorsed " progressive " India.
I assumed , just as the girls of yesteryear, that should would be of the character of her generation in the bollywood community...
However the next time i noticed her,,, I realized that she was not ...
The next time she entered my attention was.. when I was watching a baseball game .. on american TV.. and saw the commentator listing all the girls that New York Yankeess baseball player, Derek Jeterm, had dated. The list included many american celebs, and eventually Lara Dutta.
I was schocked to hear that an Indian girl... even of the bollywood persuasion would have made Derek Jeters list.
Derek Jeter, is Black - white Interacial American.
In America, despite being interacial officially... he is culturally all Black..
So Lara Dutta was dated a Black man....!!!!!
That is the first thought that any average indian cine fan would have had.. whether living in india or the west.
I dont live in India, so I dont what her cinema community think... but I must assume that she is considered bold for doing so....
Even in america...supposedly the most advanced country in overcoming "racism" towards Black,.... any famous Black - White pairing recieves another class of media and public attention. In the media, It will be an unspoken exclamation as any explicit statements may suggest " racism"...
There are just a handfull of Black celebs in american culture.. and all of them half black partners....For some reason If a black man takes a spanish latino partner.. the same exclamtaion for having a white partner does not result... This is becuase... despite having a closer racial and physical likeness to white people... latinos are considered clearly Un White.. adn hence comparable to blacks....
Will Smith, Denzel Washington, Samuel L Jackson, --- from films
Micheal Jordan, Shaquille O Neil, Barry Bonds, -- sports...
The same Derek Jeter... has not dated many " white" celebs... his list includes... many spanish models.. , black models., mariah carey,, and now lara dutta, an Indian.
Lara Dutta.. regardless of how "progresive " she might be... is still of community... the cine world.. the controls her career.. a world of image and where ur career is ur image to the fans, and film community...
She is more than bold.. in partnering with Derek Jeter .. despite how enticing his offer is... $20 million./ yr... famous... and desirable...
I did say "dated".. meaning past tense.. as it has ended.... few years ago...
From Derek Jeter, an American Black man,, she moved to
Kelley dhorjee, a Bhuran Descent fashion model in India...
When i first heard Kelleys name.. I thought.. another weird name... and only recently i found that he is of Bhutan descent..
For those who dont know... Bhutan is a country just north of india.. that shares a lot of cultural traits with India.. but differs in appearance as the Bhutan people appear to the crude eye... " chinese looking "....and ofcourse are not.. they are more crudely refered to as : "brown people"...
Again Lara Dutta.. broke the conventional boundaries even for her generation of modern progressive JISM girls, and chose Kelley... the " chinese looking guy"
So far the unmentioned significance behind this article is that Lara Dutta, has the physcial traits of a Miss Universe among Indians... These traits are so rare among the population that... she will be encourage by the culture to value them... as it is considered both rare, valuable, and good looking...
So she is likely , by social encouragement, to de value those physiques that are not considered good looking.... by either the INdian filmi standard or the American standard.. which is the 2 guys she chose....
the Black Guy and the Chinese Looking Guy...
MOst interesting.. that there is such a person as Lara Dutta... !
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Mumbai Pictures : Progressive" Masala..?
The "Progressive " Invasion of social cultural identity that swarmed into India in the late 90s and 2000s did not spare the forum of cinema from its grip.
The previously fiercly guarded film format made many concessions to the progressive wave of culture to such a great extent that it is legitimate claim that films today are completely different from those just 15 years ago.
The first major change that came is the obvious.... SLEEZE material that began with the western clothing of late 90s fashion that exposed more of the body , espcicially the bust and the legs, and then to girls making physcial gestures of lewd suggestions and obvious promiscuis nature.
These points were predictable since the indian audience of the 70, 80s and early 90s...got as much as they wanted of sleeze from western cinema through video rentals...Now there was an opening to put these elements in hindi movies via the domestic supplier.. the bollywood film producers.
As the Progressive or " times have changed" motto entered the mumbai film industry and audience.. this was the first and most predictable allowance from western cinema...
In Early 2ks... the sleeze quota for bollywood was represented through the " Item Number" component of any standard film. Girls who could not achieve as a leading girl... through the persona of the virgin could abandon ship and enter the item girl market. The new level of sleeze required by producers for the item number was justified with the title of "modern"... THe modern item girl would immediately be recognized by the title, image and qualities of the Item number upon being recognized in a film.
Maybe the most well know example is the "khallas girl" from company. She could not achieve as leading lady .... At age 25.. she made the sudden decision to become an item girl. She must have considered , that there probably would be no going back to leading roles after such exposure.
Company proved to be one of the landmark movies of the year, 2002, and decade to this point.
Though the rest of the film was stictly sleeze free... the khallas girl item number must be attached to it to judge the whole work in its entirity.
The khallas number had no other function in the film... but to entertain those in the audience who had a default demand for sleeze.. The prominent khallas number had no relevance to the nature or story of the film.. Boney Kapoor , the producer of the film, saw the box office rewards from its prospect and put it in the film.. Here it is an evidence that even as early as 2002, the sleeze item number had become a standard in the new format of films. Ram Gopal Varmas trend setting nature in films had the effect of popularizing the plot independent modern item number as it appeared in greater frequency in the films of the years ahead.
Beyond the sleeze item number , which is never the core of the film but a sideshow, the more important changes occured the main characters of the film.
The previously fiercly guarded film format made many concessions to the progressive wave of culture to such a great extent that it is legitimate claim that films today are completely different from those just 15 years ago.
The first major change that came is the obvious.... SLEEZE material that began with the western clothing of late 90s fashion that exposed more of the body , espcicially the bust and the legs, and then to girls making physcial gestures of lewd suggestions and obvious promiscuis nature.
These points were predictable since the indian audience of the 70, 80s and early 90s...got as much as they wanted of sleeze from western cinema through video rentals...Now there was an opening to put these elements in hindi movies via the domestic supplier.. the bollywood film producers.
As the Progressive or " times have changed" motto entered the mumbai film industry and audience.. this was the first and most predictable allowance from western cinema...
In Early 2ks... the sleeze quota for bollywood was represented through the " Item Number" component of any standard film. Girls who could not achieve as a leading girl... through the persona of the virgin could abandon ship and enter the item girl market. The new level of sleeze required by producers for the item number was justified with the title of "modern"... THe modern item girl would immediately be recognized by the title, image and qualities of the Item number upon being recognized in a film.
Maybe the most well know example is the "khallas girl" from company. She could not achieve as leading lady .... At age 25.. she made the sudden decision to become an item girl. She must have considered , that there probably would be no going back to leading roles after such exposure.
Company proved to be one of the landmark movies of the year, 2002, and decade to this point.
Though the rest of the film was stictly sleeze free... the khallas girl item number must be attached to it to judge the whole work in its entirity.
The khallas number had no other function in the film... but to entertain those in the audience who had a default demand for sleeze.. The prominent khallas number had no relevance to the nature or story of the film.. Boney Kapoor , the producer of the film, saw the box office rewards from its prospect and put it in the film.. Here it is an evidence that even as early as 2002, the sleeze item number had become a standard in the new format of films. Ram Gopal Varmas trend setting nature in films had the effect of popularizing the plot independent modern item number as it appeared in greater frequency in the films of the years ahead.
Beyond the sleeze item number , which is never the core of the film but a sideshow, the more important changes occured the main characters of the film.
Friday, March 14, 2008
Islam-iya Aaj Tak...! --- Discussions of Islam in the International Forum ....
Since the 9/11 and the subsequent military devastations of Afghanistan and Iraq... the Muslim scholars have had more importance and significance as they are responsible for the provision of intellectual discussion about Islam .. in all arenas :
theology, history , current society, and political revelance.... to both the Muslim community , and the International community .
In my observations of the world ... I have found some scholars much more competent in representing the elements of Islam than others...
Here I will discuss those who have appealed to me most
1) Dr. Zakir Naik - Indian Muslim Scholar :
Zakir is by far the person who has informed me the most about the finite definate points of islam that I did not know before hand.
His background as medical doctor and his highly structured and scientific method of representing Islam was very appealing. He has been doing " dawah" for more than 10 years all over the world while holding discussion forums aimed at informing people just like me... curious , speculative non muslims.
Like most Muslim scholars he has studied the Christian and Jewish religion texts and history meticulously.. but unlike most most muslim scholars, he has thoroughly studied Hindu Indian tradition in both history and religion texts..
The Hindu relgion texts, the longest amount of texts of any established religion, are the source of the most amount of debate within any religion. None of the the alleged Hindu scholars of the recent age have clearly transalted the meanings and significance of these texts to the objective scholastic academy of religion in either india or abroad..
Meaning, that those academians who challenge the background or credibility of the Hindu texts were not given concrete or even remotely viable answers about its content. All that was offered by the Hindu voice was an answer in the form an abstract poem..... whihc although rich in virue did not answer the questions that initiated the reply..>?
With this said, Zakir Naik.. who is first qualied in the Islam Qoran.... memorizing every line and attempting to know the signicance of each line... has gone to extreme extent of doing so with the Hindu scriptures and challenging those who represent it.. the Hindu Priest.. to represent and explain its core meaning...
Zakir Naik is the only public figure.. who I have found even remotely competent in honestly and directly explain the convoluted meanings of the Hindu scriptures.
I feel inclined to give him more acclaim for his understanding of Hindu scriptures... then his over the Islamic Qoran... since the Hindu Scriptures have less public attention to translation for the masses.
2) Israr Ahmed - Indian Muslim Scholar
3) Muaammar Gaddafi - president of Libya
4) Ahmed Deedat- Indian Muslim scholar from Africa
5) Brother Imran- Indian - founder of IREC
theology, history , current society, and political revelance.... to both the Muslim community , and the International community .
In my observations of the world ... I have found some scholars much more competent in representing the elements of Islam than others...
Here I will discuss those who have appealed to me most
1) Dr. Zakir Naik - Indian Muslim Scholar :
Zakir is by far the person who has informed me the most about the finite definate points of islam that I did not know before hand.
His background as medical doctor and his highly structured and scientific method of representing Islam was very appealing. He has been doing " dawah" for more than 10 years all over the world while holding discussion forums aimed at informing people just like me... curious , speculative non muslims.
Like most Muslim scholars he has studied the Christian and Jewish religion texts and history meticulously.. but unlike most most muslim scholars, he has thoroughly studied Hindu Indian tradition in both history and religion texts..
The Hindu relgion texts, the longest amount of texts of any established religion, are the source of the most amount of debate within any religion. None of the the alleged Hindu scholars of the recent age have clearly transalted the meanings and significance of these texts to the objective scholastic academy of religion in either india or abroad..
Meaning, that those academians who challenge the background or credibility of the Hindu texts were not given concrete or even remotely viable answers about its content. All that was offered by the Hindu voice was an answer in the form an abstract poem..... whihc although rich in virue did not answer the questions that initiated the reply..>?
With this said, Zakir Naik.. who is first qualied in the Islam Qoran.... memorizing every line and attempting to know the signicance of each line... has gone to extreme extent of doing so with the Hindu scriptures and challenging those who represent it.. the Hindu Priest.. to represent and explain its core meaning...
Zakir Naik is the only public figure.. who I have found even remotely competent in honestly and directly explain the convoluted meanings of the Hindu scriptures.
I feel inclined to give him more acclaim for his understanding of Hindu scriptures... then his over the Islamic Qoran... since the Hindu Scriptures have less public attention to translation for the masses.
2) Israr Ahmed - Indian Muslim Scholar
3) Muaammar Gaddafi - president of Libya
4) Ahmed Deedat- Indian Muslim scholar from Africa
5) Brother Imran- Indian - founder of IREC
First Dalit CEO in Indian IT business
I found this on you tube and was surprised to read.. that
" Thirty-one-year old Atul Paswan has successfully changed what many may have said was his destiny. A Dalit from Siwan district in Bihar three years ago, the village schoolteacher's son set up a software company in Bangalore "
I was surprised because... I thought that in this age of education... and university opportunities .. and caste quotas... that an ambitious Dalit would have reached this point atleast at some time in 1990s.
Since the government of Indian doesnt publish or reveal any statistics about "caste" demograpgics in different sectors of the economy... speculative people like myself dont know the presence of each caste in any sector..
I have to assume that Brahmin and "Upper Caste" have the higher presence in all power positions ....especially those positions of definative bougeoise foundation..
Is there even a single "low caste" persona of note who is part of the indian IT boom...?
I collect data like this.. and even I dont know...?
So this you tube video... was quite alarming and informative for me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8xOia2MjXU
" Thirty-one-year old Atul Paswan has successfully changed what many may have said was his destiny. A Dalit from Siwan district in Bihar three years ago, the village schoolteacher's son set up a software company in Bangalore "
I was surprised because... I thought that in this age of education... and university opportunities .. and caste quotas... that an ambitious Dalit would have reached this point atleast at some time in 1990s.
Since the government of Indian doesnt publish or reveal any statistics about "caste" demograpgics in different sectors of the economy... speculative people like myself dont know the presence of each caste in any sector..
I have to assume that Brahmin and "Upper Caste" have the higher presence in all power positions ....especially those positions of definative bougeoise foundation..
Is there even a single "low caste" persona of note who is part of the indian IT boom...?
I collect data like this.. and even I dont know...?
So this you tube video... was quite alarming and informative for me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8xOia2MjXU
Sunday, March 2, 2008
என்றேட்ரும் சிர்ரிப்பு
When I first started watching tamil movies in the 1980s.... the film format had a balanced format.....
the main adeventure story of the hero..........with portions of comedy romance landscape and then finally return to the adventure...
This format was the generic in indian maintstream cinema.. in hindi , telugu and tamil... but more rigidly maintained in tamil...
Superstar Rajani...adhered to this standard....
As the Rajani and Kamalan dominance passed... in the late 90s... a slighlyt new formated developed.. that focused away from adventure....
Here some of the landmark comedians from the last 15 years.... had disappeared from as the format was dropped... Such landmark comedies... were the heroes of my cinema...
they were the heoes for me...
the two big names : Goundermanu and Senthil.....
the main adeventure story of the hero..........with portions of comedy romance landscape and then finally return to the adventure...
This format was the generic in indian maintstream cinema.. in hindi , telugu and tamil... but more rigidly maintained in tamil...
Superstar Rajani...adhered to this standard....
As the Rajani and Kamalan dominance passed... in the late 90s... a slighlyt new formated developed.. that focused away from adventure....
Here some of the landmark comedians from the last 15 years.... had disappeared from as the format was dropped... Such landmark comedies... were the heroes of my cinema...
they were the heoes for me...
the two big names : Goundermanu and Senthil.....
The late 90s format had less dominant quality of comedy..
IN the 2000s a new format developed... with emergeance of comedy again....
this time the newer generations comedians emerged:
Vivek and Vadivel...
To me these two towers... have gone on to become the two biggest stars in this decade...
as the big stars.... of the previous ers... Rajni and Kamal... had reduced the amount of films reduced....
the void in the market... atleast in the number of releases and the attention of the viewers was met with new young " heroes"....
Vijay and Ajith....
Both of them proved to be box office succeses.. but were not comparable in the magnificent charisma of Kamalan and Rajani....
To me.. void in this charisma has been met by Vivek and Vadivel... only....
The other heroes that have come up... such as Surya and Vikram are credible.. but the number of releases is short of vikram... and vikram is few steps away... what deters surya most is his poor selection of films whihc seem to be motivated by the need to compete with vijay and ajith and the younger heroes in the line "westernized metropolitan themed films."....
Despite box office succeses.. the low quliaty in nature of these films.. have hurt his credbility as top star in cinema...
The lasting superstars of the decade have been Vadivel and Vivek....:
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