Culture Post #4
Holidays.
India celebrates numerous holidays majority of which have religious affiliations. These holidays are officially recognized by the Indian government and schools are off on these days.
In my earlier post, I mentioned that Hinduism is the largest religion in India. Christianity and Islam are the minority religions in India. However, in a country of over a billion people, a rather large part of the population follow the minority religions.I would like to focus my attention on the conflict between the people who follow the Hindu tradition and the people who follow the Islam tradition.
From my observations, I have learned that people do not pitch the religions against each other. Instead, people put the name of religion on the conflict. It is people fighting one another. Yes both religions have their share of dissimilarities. However, in India, actions of the past still dominate the relationships between people. The political/social history of the conflict is long and rigorous. Therefore, I would like to emphasize my focus on how people seek to find common ground while have differences. Hindi, as a language, play a large role in the conflict because the language is embedded with the cultural respect that is practiced by the Indian society!
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