Hiya Antonio,
What a pleasant surprise man! How have you been? 
You're right that we cannot run away from stereo-typing and each one of us are guilty of this at some point. I just wish we displayed more humility the next time we encounter people who do not come from the same cultural or social background such as ours.
Bunty.

Hiya Dagney,
Thanks for dropping by. I have encountered that kinda behaviour too when as a kid I went to Bihar. my cousins and young uncles and aunties  made fun of my pronunciation of certain words. I particularly remember how they kept teasing me coz I pronounced "war" (wor) and they insisted it should be "Waar"....lol! They kept needling me that the person who didnt know to pronounce a simple word like "waar" is not fit for anything great in life....lol! 
Bunty.

Hello Dr Madhavi,
It's heartening to know that you have such an opinion...way to go gurl! 
Have my mind all over the place and this was just a way of thinking aloud the things that bother me and where we are headed. We are so consumed about killing others happiness that we forget to have fun ourselves.
Bunty.

Hello Sue,
Wow gurl...I'm quite impressed with your response.....Thanks!

When I mention the snobbery of the english speakers, its generally the elite from the Metro's. I stay in Bandra in Mumbai where you find quite a few of those. The social etiquette is that if someone speaks to you in a language that you understand....answer them in the same tongue.

Ofcourse there are non-english speakers too who react bitterly towards the well meaning english speaking folks who do not understand the regional language of a different state.  That again is an unjustified resentment.

Bunty.

Hello Madsji,
More than naraz I'm disappointed in people who do not grow despite having so much exposure to the outside world. This blog was just an expression to display my frustration at the capacity that a human mind is capable of and yet we are stuck in mediocrity.
Thanks for taking the trouble to respond. Yes...I have been a bit tied up off late....
Bunty.

Hiya Nupsie,
I see you get the drift  when I talked about people from the metro's and their attitudes towards non-english speakers. Thanks for responding. 
Bunty.

Hello Bunty, 

I guess this is a stereotyping thingiee.....Hindi bhashi or for that matter non english speaking people are ghati/gawaar etc etc. But I guess these days the 24 hour hindi news channels have also contributed to that......dont yu think so?

Bunty,

You are right. The snobbery of english speaking people is palpable. But then here's the flip side to the coin.

The snobbery (I wouldnt call it humility....) of non-english speaking people is huge too. I have seen first hand the resentment they have for someone who speaks english. I have seem the brutality with which they repel every generous overture of an english speaking person. The carry a chip on their shoulder... a chip of monumental proportions...

What say you...?

Cheers,

Dagny

Bunty
perpetual problem...especially with indians...its ingrained in our psyche..what we should or shd not do..... what is right and wrong...accept it because I say so...the dictat comes from parents, teachers, elders...it blocks your reasoning and rationale......in initial years it blocks your curiosity.... by the time you realise your parents or teachers were wrong, the dye has been cast...diff then to wriggle out of it...
Being a doctor I have to answer a lot of such questions because they don't conform to others idea of a doc...
but then I have a mind of my own...
 
you could have elaborated this.... nice post 
 madhvi

Hey Bunty,

Interesting blog.

In the first part, you asked when we will stop slotting people into familiar moulds. I think it will happen only when we truly open ourselves to the world around us and take the time to absorb the vast diversity. It will astound us so much we will forget our dyes and moulds in our anxiety to find a slot for ourselves!

As for the snobbery associated with English language, I have had quite a different experience in Kerala where I come from. If you speak in English there, it will be met with  curious looks, sniggers or even silence. But there too, things are changing with development of tourism. People are accepting that there are people out there who communicate in English because they just do not know Malayalam.

When Malayalees travel to Mumbai and further north, they speak in English not out of snobbery, but because of their inability to express themselves in Hindi. They will hold in total awe and respect anybody  who can speak chaste or even apun ki Mumbai slang version of Hindi. 

What I am trying to say is, most of the times, communication in English in India is just a necessity and not snobbery.
  Sue