[TAG] [lgang] 'Cane in the offing

[Kat]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 01:50:48PM +0530, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Kat wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 01:42:25PM -0700, Mike Orr wrote:
> > > 
> > > Another flaw is, where are the Asians?  What happened to all the
> > > Buddhists and Hindus?  He seems to have forgotten they exist.  Did
> > > they convert too?
> > 
> > *sigh* This happens a *lot* in English language fiction, unless
> > Buddhists or Hindus are specifically the central concern of the plot.
> 
> Not to mention the Sikhs and Jains...and Atheists who get neglected
> off the map.

This one is, to my mind, actually more serious. The number of Sikhs who
are taken for Muslim, and then abused for it (not that I believe Muslims
should be abused, but to be bashed for a case of mistaken
ethnicity/religion strikes me as some sort of additional wrong.)

Kat