CBCDs lack intellect

[Excerpts taken from another desi website I frequent. Identities have been altered to protect the innocent :) ]

Discuss...!

I've spent 5 years here in the big country and I can count all the intelligent conversations I've had with Canadian 2nd gen desis here on one hand. I'm not looking for Einsteinesque conversations, or sit around sipping Chardonnay around some glass coffee table discussing da Vinci Code or Tagore like one of those late night discussion shows on public network TV which no one ever watches.

They just seem to lack a global 'big picture' perspective on things, unable to switch between macro and micro level realities.

And don't get me started on their sense of humour...

...and they talk so slooowwww..

Man, on days like this I miss Europe.

Spheric.

CBCD #1 responds:
Who have you been talking too? I agree about the sense of humor. North American humor is not that funny but I also don't get british humor either. Maybe the lack of intellect is because we're too hooked on hockey to are about anything else.

Brit1 responds:
Haha!

CBCD #2 responds:
yup us indo-canadians only know 3 things: bbqs, canadian club whisky and hockey

Brit2 says:
Man...after reading this thread I'm having second thoughts about going to Canada this summer.
Sandeep...what do you say...should we go to sunny Skegness instead?

CBCD #1 says:
Maybe brits talk too fast???

CBCD #3:
ask XYZ...i don't talk slow at all

Spheric:
As long as you don't talk too much that is okay..feel free to exceed the speed limit.. :)

Brit3 says:
hmmm... i hate generalisations, but i'd say the canadians just aren't politicised enough. i have a cousin who's fantastic for intelligent conversation, but even he's not too clued up on world current affairs.
i think the problem might be that you're too dominated by american news, and then the desis switch off from that and end up reading nothing.
i have to admit that i found the media in canada really rubbish. when I was there a couple of years ago, the Toronto Star just kept on going about Sars and the upcoming rolling stones concert. i spent more time on british websites reading up on what was going on around the world than canadian.
plus we're not as much into desi gurudwara politics, because we've been here for longer.

CBCD #4 responds:
Brit3, have you ever heard the sleeping elephant, scared mouse analogy? the us is the elephant and canada is the mouse....every breath the elephant takes affects the mouse. and as for our broadcasting.....it's all bloody american....CBC is the only thing canada can truly claim, but even that in recent years, has been americanised...and this newspaper business....well obviously newspapers are going to go on about one thing and one thing only if they've got nothing else local to talk about!

Reading Lolita in Tehran

This book is a beautiful read. Nafisi has scripted a masterpiece at so many different levels - the transformative power of fiction over the human spirit, what it feels like to be a woman living in the joke that is the Islamic Republic of Iran, of friendships gained and lost, the sadness of leaving one's country. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and would recommend it to anyone....

Review: Da Vince Code

I normally run a mile before I read anything that is hyped up and marketed as a page turner, but in the case of the 'Da Vinci Code' I'll make an exception. I don't think it was that well-written - it's the intriguing historical concepts that keep you going - about how politicized the documenting of religious history actually is, often driven by the agenda of a minority.

Without giving too much of the plot away, before reading the book I often wondered about how was it possible that Jesus led a bachelor life in a time and land when to remain unmarried and without issue was unthinkable ? And why did the Roman Catholic Church pursue a patriarchal agenda over the past 1000 years or so ? And that only a few Gospels were ever incorporated in the New Testament, and the majority of other Gospels seemingly excluded ? What information did those other Gospels contain ?

..definitely makes you think.

Score: 9/10