An Indian court ordered the arrest of Hollywood star Richard Gere on Thursday for kissing Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty at an AIDS awareness event this month saying it was an obscene act committed in public.
Gere's repeated kisses on Shetty's cheeks at an event to promote AIDS awareness in New Delhi sparked protests in some parts of India, mostly by Hindu vigilante groups, who saw it as an outrage against her modesty and an affront to Indian culture.
Groups of men had burned and kicked straw effigies of Gere and Shetty in sporadic protests across the country after newspapers published the picture of the kiss on their front pages and TV channels aired visuals of the event.
Red Corner or 7 Years in Tibet? Never seen Red Corner but I enjoyed 7 Years in Tiber. That was in the era that everyone assumed Brad Pitt stunk at acting because all the ladies liked him and no one is capable being objective.
My Chinese co-worker stopped being nice to me when I brought in The Essential Dalai Lama. This was unacceptable to me, since she was standing in front of me in my free country, to which I was born, and not being thankful for my right to read that book, which had nothing to do with her.
araby wrote:My Chinese co-worker stopped being nice to me when I brought in The Essential Dalai Lama. This was unacceptable to me, since she was standing in front of me in my free country, to which I was born, and not being thankful for my right to read that book, which had nothing to do with her.
Sounds like your tolerance of your co-worker's belief is in question.
araby wrote:My Chinese co-worker stopped being nice to me when I brought in The Essential Dalai Lama. This was unacceptable to me, since she was standing in front of me in my free country, to which I was born, and not being thankful for my right to read that book, which had nothing to do with her.
Sounds like your tolerance of your co-worker's belief is in question.
I don't know what her belief is, so I do not understand your comment.
araby wrote:My Chinese co-worker stopped being nice to me when I brought in The Essential Dalai Lama. This was unacceptable to me, since she was standing in front of me in my free country, to which I was born, and not being thankful for my right to read that book, which had nothing to do with her.
Sounds like your tolerance of your co-worker's belief is in question.
I don't know what her belief is, so I do not understand your comment.
I THINK he means you are being intolerant of her intolerance.
Raymond S. Kraft wrote:The history of the world is the history of civilizational clashes, cultural clashes. All wars are about ideas, ideas about what society and civilization should be like, and the most determined always win.
Those who are willing to be the most ruthless always win. The pacifists always lose, because the anti-pacifists kill them.
How would you feel if someone who worked with you brought in a book called The Essential Fidel Castro? That is what Araby's coworker thinks of The Dalai Lama.
Reading anything that promotes an ideology does not necessarily mean you take that ideology as your own. Snubbing someone because of a book they choose to read without knowing why they chose to or what they gain from it is as ignorant as someone who takes anything they read as absolute truth simply because it is written word.
Raymond S. Kraft wrote:The history of the world is the history of civilizational clashes, cultural clashes. All wars are about ideas, ideas about what society and civilization should be like, and the most determined always win.
Those who are willing to be the most ruthless always win. The pacifists always lose, because the anti-pacifists kill them.
Trust me, I'm not defending her, I just see where it came from.
Or perhaps it could be the coworker snubbing her simply for being shallow and being unable to fully understand the importance of the Dalai Lama, who knows?
She moved here from China for a better life. I respected this woman, professionally and personally. Her opinions on my choice of reading were her own and I was not disrespectful to her when she expressed her disapproval. I did however, want to remind her that she left her own country for another one-a better one-and any opinions she has on the dalai lama or my book are rightfully hers, as well as my right to read it (or any other book) and for that she should be thankful, instead of critical. I said nothing though.
