Shunned from society, widows wait to die

mammasan
mammasan Posts: 5,656
edited July 2007 in A Moving Train
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/07/05/damon.india.widows/index.html

How can people be so fucking cruel, specially to their own family.
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  • vedderfan10
    vedderfan10 Posts: 2,497
    Yeah, I just read about this today. It's horrible. An outdated custom. It's not like it's their fault either...
    be philanthropic
  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    When I look around and see stuff like this I think to myself...man...I was born around 500 years too early to even begin to comprehend this mentality.

    However the condition of the planet is much sweeter right now than it will be in another 500 years so I guess I'll have to take it and be grateful for that if anything.

    How sweet the air, food, and water must have been a few hundred years ago.

    Sigh...animals. Sad.
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  • Bu2
    Bu2 Posts: 1,693
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    When I look around and see stuff like this I think to myself...man...I was born around 500 years too early to even begin comprehend this mentality.

    However the condition of the planet is much sweeter right now than it will be in another 500 years so I guess I'll have to take it and be grateful for that if anything.

    How sweet the air, food, and water must have been a few hundred years ago.

    Sigh...animals. Sad.

    Ah....but how sweet the air, food, and water must have been a few hundred years ago when most of it was a cess pool, my friend. We survived all these years through pestilence, disease, and who knows how much inbreeding.

    Our times are sad, yes, but we live far longer and stand much taller than we did only 100 years ago, as a human race, as a whole.

    Just look at how far we have come!

    Heh heh.
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  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    That's just fucking sad! How can you turn your back on someone you're supposed to love like that? I can't comprehend that much coldness in someone's heart. :(
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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    Bu2 wrote:
    Ah....but how sweet the air, food, and water must have been a few hundred years ago when most of it was a cess pool, my friend. We survived all these years through pestilence, disease, and who knows how much inbreeding.

    Our times are sad, yes, but we live far longer and stand much taller than we did only 100 years ago, as a human race, as a whole.

    Just look at how far we have come!

    Heh heh.

    I'm not so sure about that, and I tend to agree with this:

    http://www.business.ualberta.ca/rfield/LifeExpectancy.htm
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    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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  • blackredyellow
    blackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    Yeah, I posted about this earlier..... I don't care what the sacred traditions are or what my ancestors did, I could never just turn my back on my own family, especially if it was for something that they didn't even do.

    So sad...
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    of a sunny day
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  • Bu2
    Bu2 Posts: 1,693
    and bitter doesn't come across well, via the internet.

    Even when one ends their post with "heh, heh".
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    We live in a fucked up world.
  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    How do you turn your back on the woman who gave you life, who fed you and loved you and protected you for years and years? How?????
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • IndianSummer
    IndianSummer Posts: 854
    hippiemom wrote:
    How do you turn your back on the woman who gave you life, who fed you and loved you and protected you for years and years? How?????
    by being up to one's neck in age old evil customs. and being a brute.

    i am sorry that India still has such ill practices. somedays I am so ashamed to be indian.
    I have faced it, A life wasted...

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  • baraka
    baraka Posts: 1,268
    IndianSummer wrote:
    by being up to one's neck in age old evil customs. and being a brute.

    i am sorry that India still has such ill practices. somedays I am so ashamed to be indian.

    IndianSummer, how prevalent is this in Indian culture? Is this the 'norm'? I ask because I was a bit surprised by the article. Growing up, we had two brothers that were from India as neighbors. Their widowed mother lived with them and they were a lovely family.
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  • even flow?
    even flow? Posts: 8,066
    What!!! Disrespecting women? Where is Superman in his red,white and blue to save them from themselves? Yeah!

    Thanks for the read.
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  • IndianSummer
    IndianSummer Posts: 854
    baraka wrote:
    IndianSummer, how prevalent is this in Indian culture? Is this the 'norm'? I ask because I was a bit surprised by the article. Growing up, we had two brothers that were from India as neighbors. Their widowed mother lived with them and they were a lovely family.
    not the norm by any means. we have two widows living in our extended family still. one was widowed about 15 years ago another about 40.

    it happens to far less than one percent of indian families.
    I have faced it, A life wasted...

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  • Coming back to life
    Coming back to life Posts: 401
    mammasan wrote:
    http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/07/05/damon.india.widows/index.html

    How can people be so fucking cruel, specially to their own family.

    This is exactly why I am against respecting other cultures for the sake of it.
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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    icarus wrote:
    but it isn't a cultural practice. if anything, indians probably take way better care of their elders than americans. most indians let their parents move in with them and take care of them, rather than relegating them to a nursing home or a trailer park.

    Ok I love a good ol poke at the US of A as much as the next guy, but let's just admit this is a rare occurrence and very unusual for India and leave it at that.

    There is an awakening going on right now in America. :D

    Everything will get better. I, for one, have faith American citizens will do what's right in the world. Things just went a little off course.

    Besides....not everyone can be as smart and awesome as Canadians :D:p

    I am willing to make a few exceptions though. ha...ha...funny...ha...ha?
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    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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  • IndianSummer
    IndianSummer Posts: 854
    icarus wrote:
    but it isn't a cultural practice. if anything, indians probably take way better care of their elders than americans. most indians let their parents move in with them and take care of them, rather than relegating them to a nursing home or a trailer park.
    very correct.
    I have faced it, A life wasted...

    Take my hand, my child of love
    Come step inside my tears
    Swim the magic ocean,
    I've been crying all these years

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