Pathetic?
I would not go so far.
We don't fully understand them because we are not indians.
I bow up a bit at the idea of them being pathetic however.
My apologies Jim. Not intended in the way you think; I could have used different words and been clearer. I didn’t mean they were pathetic in the usual use of the word like the critical, recriminating “you are pathetic” , but rather in a state of pathos — a state of sympathy, of sorrow, as in a state of a crushing environment.
I claim no moral supremacy. I was born in a culture that buoyed me up, that didn’t enable me to “destroy” myself.
