Published by space bar August 6th, 2008
in India.
Fëanor, while musing about Singapore, England, litter and dog doodoos, suspects
that there’s a relationship between cleanliness (C) and racism (R). Something like:
A sociological theory in there, perhaps? A people maintain ‘qualities’ that they consider important, and resent outsiders that dilute them. This is basic xenophobia, and is possibly intrinsic to human behaviour. But as the outsiders settle among the indigenous, a gruff acceptance leads to decreased xenophobia and increased tolerance to various foibles. Such as littering.
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Ha! What an imagination!
It had been a long time someone reminded me of Luton.
But of course you are day dreaming. Colonization ( race migration experiment for you) did not change habits. Pakistan vs Singapore?
Plus, How would race explain new Delhi?
You got to add couple more compliacted variables and give me half the credit for the equation.
Sunil: I’m afraid the colonists weren’t exactly the cleanest people around. So there was not much scope for improvement, heh.
And now, I must confess that I’ve made a dreadful mistake in the equation. It should, of course, be C = a R. I’ll just skulk off and correct it now, shall I? :-)
Fëanor: I dont know. If the Colonists were’nt clean enough, then we have to invent a race, love. But that’s another dream for another day.