{"id":120190,"date":"2021-07-21T19:05:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T13:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=120190"},"modified":"2021-07-22T10:41:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T05:11:17","slug":"accepting-radical-otherness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/accepting-radical-otherness\/","title":{"rendered":"Accepting radical otherness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Source<\/b>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=G6G8POLD3.1&amp;imageview=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>: Religious tolerance is essential to preserve and protect Indian diversity.<\/p>\n<p><b>Synopsis<\/b>: The U.S.-based Pew Research Center\u2019s survey has thrown up an interesting finding on religious tolerance in India.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Introduction:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Pew Research Center has recently released the results of the survey titled \u2018Religion in India: Tolerance and Segregation\u2019. The survey takes a closer look at religious identity, nationalism, and tolerance in Indian society.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Key findings of the survey:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Most Indians (84%) surveyed said that<strong> respecting all religions is very important to them<\/strong> and all religious groups must be allowed to practise their faith freely.<\/li>\n<li>Yet, a considerable number of them also said they <strong>preferred to have religious groups segregated and live and marry within their own community<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"background-color: #f0e1e1;\">\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read more<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-pew-studys-glazed-picture-of-our-religious-tolerance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Pew study\u2019s glazed picture of our religious tolerance<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5><strong>Impact of the survey:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>This curious finding has <strong>resulted in a BBC Asia report stating that India<\/strong> is <strong>neither a melting pot<\/strong> (diverse cultures blending into one common national identity) <strong>nor a salad bowl<\/strong> (different cultures retaining their specific characteristics while assimilating into one national identity) <strong>but a thali<\/strong> (an Indian meal comprising separate dishes on a platter).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>How to preserve Indian Diversity?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Sociologist Ashis Nandy had developed a framework in the 2000s to understand Religious diversity.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In his framework, he said that, in regions that have <strong>to accommodate not just diversities but \u201cradical diversities <\/strong><strong>everyday mechanisms of coping have to be evolved<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>This has resulted in a <strong>unique form of cosmopolitanism<\/strong> where differences can be accommodated without pressuring members of one community to be like the other<strong> based on a notion of universal brotherhood<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Kochi model of diversity observed by Ashis Nandy:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>On the other hand, another aspect is also possible, where <strong>members of one community can go to extraordinary lengths to help members of the other community<\/strong> maintain their own customary practices including their separate dining and dietary habits.<\/li>\n<li>This type of diversity is based on <strong>tolerance that is built into people\u2019s everyday rhythms<\/strong>, is not backed by any ideological justification. He termed it an \u201c<strong>unheroic form of tolerance<\/strong>\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>He observed this kind of <strong>cosmopolitanism<\/strong> in Kochi. Furthermore, he said this is the reason why the city, which has close to 15 diverse communities, had not witnessed any major religious strife in its 600 years of recorded history.<\/li>\n<li>This model of cosmopolitanism, where people accept \u201cthe otherness of the others&#8221; is different and easy to achieve than the Enlightenment version which teaches us to divest ourselves of all prejudices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Terms to know:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW113660989 BCX0\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/melting-pot-diversity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"TextRun Underlined SCXW113660989 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW113660989 BCX0\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">Melting pot diversity<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"TextRun SCXW113660989 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW113660989 BCX0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW113660989 BCX0\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/salad-bowl-diversity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"TextRun Underlined SCXW113660989 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW113660989 BCX0\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">Salad bowl diversity<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source:\u00a0The Hindu Relevance: Religious tolerance is essential to preserve and protect Indian diversity. Synopsis: The U.S.-based Pew Research Center\u2019s survey has thrown up an interesting finding on religious tolerance in India. Introduction: Pew Research Center has recently released the results of the survey titled \u2018Religion in India: Tolerance and Segregation\u2019. The survey takes a closer&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/accepting-radical-otherness\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Accepting radical otherness<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[8534,263,8533,264],"class_list":["post-120190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-diversity","tag-gs-paper-1","tag-religious-tolerance","tag-society","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":2,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1701437137},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}