When I saw this video off of one of my Facebook feeds, I just had to say… “wow.” While I respect religious beliefs, if this is what we’re teaching our children, then sometimes I just don’t know what to say. I have to wonder what it is that children are actually being taught, whether they understand that you can still be friends without having the need to save everyone; it’s like trying to convince a Republican to become a Democrat or vice versa. Beliefs are there for a reason, be it Christianity, Hinduism or whatever, and convincing people to convert is just like what one of my good friends told me once:
“I can beat it into you with a bat, but in the end, I just end up with a bloody bat.”
Personally, there’s some truth in that statement; each person is responsible for finding their own way. But I can tell you that this type of behavior is one of the reasons why Eastern and Western cultures clash: when one side doesn’t view the others’ perspective and instead tries to deduce their reasoning through their own eyes, there’s a serious failure in communication. It’s the same reason why Matteo Ricci was one of the most successful Jesuit priests in China, due to his explanations of Christianity using concepts that stemmed from Confucian beliefs.
Sometimes, it’s a miracle that there are not more bloody bats in this day and age.
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16 Comments to “Young Christians Try to Convert Indian Girl on YouTube”
anita wrote:
OK… I haven't finished watching yet, but… “one regular friend and one Indian friend”??
Posted on 14-Aug-09 at 1:27 pm | Permalink
erika888 wrote:
I heard that this is satire.
Posted on 14-Aug-09 at 2:10 pm | Permalink
Facebook User wrote:
Yeah, I heard it's a fake.
Posted on 14-Aug-09 at 2:25 pm | Permalink
Yan wrote:
Got to get them hooked young, like cigarettes. Kidding. This looks fake.
Posted on 14-Aug-09 at 4:09 pm | Permalink
facebook-3305315 wrote:
This is infuriating. I couldn't even get past the 1st minute when they were telling her what she was “African + Asian.” Pure ignorance
Posted on 15-Aug-09 at 8:54 am | Permalink
ahuang06 wrote:
This is a brilliant, hilarious satire! The writing for this is fantastic..
(I had to do a lot of digging to convince myself that it was a satire. What convinced me was the mention of “Poe's Law” as a tag.)
Although, I feel like I had many of these sorts of conversations in elementary school, which really is somewhat tragic.
Posted on 15-Aug-09 at 11:12 am | Permalink
bbp1aya wrote:
Satire or not, I have a feeling these are the type of people we have all over in those hickish Southern and Midwest states…
Same type of people that voted for McCain.
Posted on 16-Aug-09 at 10:31 am | Permalink
invasian wrote:
Nice generalization. Have you ever even been to the Midwest or the South?
Posted on 17-Aug-09 at 8:37 am | Permalink
bbp1aya wrote:
Been to Charlotte NC, Myrtle Beach NC, Chapel Hill NC, Richmond VA, and Dallas TX. Big cities. And people are like that. The people in the middle-of-nowheres were even worse.
Posted on 17-Aug-09 at 12:55 pm | Permalink
protosswannabe wrote:
Go someplace with preconceived notions and you'll see just what you wanna see.
Posted on 17-Aug-09 at 7:55 pm | Permalink
invasian wrote:
Four of those locations are are in two states that touch each other.
Are you from the Northeast?
Posted on 17-Aug-09 at 7:55 pm | Permalink
bbp1aya wrote:
LOL. Trust me, I *didn't* want to see those people.
Posted on 18-Aug-09 at 8:46 am | Permalink
invasian wrote:
Right, and there aren't any people like that where you are from.
Posted on 18-Aug-09 at 8:49 am | Permalink
gillers wrote:
Wow, this is an amazing — and for me, very disturbing — video. It started with the young woman saying she had a “regular” friend and her Indian friend over. And then it got worse. Then the stuff about how Sara must be African, how could she be Asian. Can the youth of America really be this ignorant?
Maybe it's satire, but since it not entirely over-the-top and so subtly done and believable, if it is a work of satire, it's brilliant but not helpful, since most people who see it (especially if they're evangelical Christians) will believe it to be a real video, not a satirical enactment.
But if it were satire, at least I'd feel a little better….
Posted on 18-Aug-09 at 10:56 am | Permalink
ckshaw wrote:
Let's start with her statement at the beginning “…having two friends over, one regular one and one Indian one.” Really? The ignorance flows from there.
Posted on 25-Aug-09 at 4:44 pm | Permalink
usthakur wrote:
my name is u s thakur from chhattisgarh, india. i like making new friends.
Posted on 28-Aug-09 at 12:56 am | Permalink
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