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Mar 1st, 2007, 20:02
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Mar 1st, 2007, 20:53
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| Naan.tering Nabob  Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Abode of Glooscap
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2. It is important to get Vitamin D for physical and mental health - otherwise risk depression and overweightedness in middle age. 3. If you got it - flaunt it! 4. They are soon to form a troup called the : Varanasi Naga Baba-ettes 
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Mar 1st, 2007, 20:58
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 I believe in If you have it flaunt it and also get ready to be gawked at idiom. | |
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Mar 1st, 2007, 21:01
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| This is just a cameo appearance  Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Chennai, India
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Mar 1st, 2007, 21:06
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| Naan.tering Nabob Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Abode of Glooscap
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| Everything in moderation, Nick. They're saying now that lack of Vitamin D is a leading cause of Colon cancer and other nasties. Certainly bathing in the sun all day is a past time of yor .... but so should be the act of total embundlement in the heat - 24/7. .... happy medium in this all one would think!? |
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Mar 1st, 2007, 21:13
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| Naan.tering Nabob Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Abode of Glooscap
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| Hijab wearing soccer girl is all the rage in Canada these days. Slightly off topic but as the world gets smaller - dress issues appear to get larger ....... http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/...ccerhijab.html |
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Mar 1st, 2007, 22:02
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| The cultural insult is often blown out proportion. Indian's are not as easily offended as forums and guidebooks will have you believe. So I've always thought let ladies wear what they want (within reason of course) as long as they personally can deal with the stares and comments, I see no reason for people to conform to supposed "norms" India is changing fast, it's no longer a place where everyone will look down on the way you dress. |
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Mar 1st, 2007, 23:11
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| I can't understand how the Indians can be offended by the way women dress when all the ladies in sarees show a bare midriff and cleavage. The men openly urinate in the streets, which is something I have not seen anywhere but India. Jenny
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Mar 1st, 2007, 23:16
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| a pain in the asana  Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: the India inside my heart
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as for peeing, I've seen it here on the Chicago expressways when traffic is at a total standstill and the guys are pissing at the side of the road! and they weren't Indians! 
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Mar 1st, 2007, 23:21
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| Open your eyes folks in any big city/town covering up is becoming less and less important!! Peeing in the street, I guess you don't get down to the city center on a Saturday night |
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Mar 1st, 2007, 23:42
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Mar 1st, 2007, 23:55
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 | Good post lotusblossom . . . India is changing fast . . . but perhaps not as fast as some of us who travel there might like. And of course it's happening in the big cities first; as it most often does in the West. I remember driving into a small town in the midwest of America, about fifteen years ago. I was driving a Toyota . . . and the midwest is Ford country . . . the looks I got . . . but we're talking about clothes . . . in general I agree with cyberhippie, as long as people can deal with the stares and comments, why not? But often, and I've seen it with western women wearing both skimpy clothing and even once in traditional Indian dress, it goes beyond staring, beyond comments, to physical contact. While India is changing, like it or not, clothes (or lack of/choice of) do say something about you, as I believe they do in the west. Maybe a part of the problem is that the clothes some of us wear in India say something to many Indian's that isn't what we meant to say.
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Mar 1st, 2007, 23:57
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| Probably many of the female tourists are ignoramt about the culture and the way common indian dress up, and that's why they be wearing the same clothes which they wear in thier country. But i am sure after some starry looks, they would have realised that everything is not okay. |
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Mar 1st, 2007, 23:58
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| Agreed Darmabum. However can I just add that attacking someone physically and blaming their mode of dress, is just about the lowest excuse imaginable. You knew that anyway though |
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Mar 2nd, 2007, 00:26
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| I think men and women should be allowed to wear as little or as much clothes as they want to wear. "Modesty" is subjective and so who are we to judge others? India is great, in that, I don't believe that there are any modesty laws on the books. But, people who wear less than the norm, shouod be prepared to deal with undue attention. |
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