tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-217659783490652480.post2719248834865730626..comments2023-05-03T02:53:55.216-07:00Comments on अभी दिल्ली दूर है।: I still haven't posted on any of the things I said I was going to post onremhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00331623041674858889noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-217659783490652480.post-65902360683587017612012-07-05T11:22:48.650-07:002012-07-05T11:22:48.650-07:00wow, what a genius idea
i never even thought about...wow, what a genius idea<br />i never even thought about that<br />partially because i don't know anything about hippies or rock and roll, haha<br />but this is so exciting<br />i have so much more to think about now<br /><br />although i think part of the problem with considering it from the reverse with America is that I think with America it isn't necessarily an issue of relative strength or weakness of culture as much as it is a sort of cultural vacuum<br />but maybe that isn't trueremhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00331623041674858889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-217659783490652480.post-79059229173394863962012-07-04T05:30:16.185-07:002012-07-04T05:30:16.185-07:00Rock culture and India have such an interesting hi...Rock culture and India have such an interesting history. I love hippie culture and style, and even though I knew it was the case, I didn't realize until I got to India just how much of the hippie culture was reverse colonization. The New Age, the colors, the sitars showing up in the Beatles' music...<br /><br />It seems that your experience at Hard Rock is a kind of full circle thing, not nearly as simple as some might want to call one-way colonization.Modern rock culture comes in a big way from hippie culture, freedom, drugs, sex, independence. And a lot of hippie culture was a Western absorption of Indian spirituality, fashion, and values, though, as you are seeing, absorption is never complete and one culture often misunderstands the culture it is trying to become more like. Do you think you could take this statement, "Is it a sign of India's cultural robustness that it is absorbing the culture of other countries and making them its own?" and replace India with America, at least in the context of the hippie movement (if not also the Westernization of Zen, etc., etc.)? What are the implications of either of those statements?Lori Hiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05505713514903772284noreply@blogger.com