An email has been floating around for a while originated from some crappy Mallu brain. It comes with a ‘Youtube’ link showing Manorama News’ itchy clipping about our Hon: Minister of Health, Ms. Sreemathi Teacher’s speech in English.
Many half baked Mallu Sayipps lol’ed (Read, laughed out loud) after watching this video. Some were angry that she spoke Bilaathi language in poor taste. Some were ashamed: what if others, with whom we have boasted about our 100% literacy, hear this?
For a Mallu, it seems, the greatest achievement in education is to speak in English! unless a person speaks in proper English, he is no better than any ‘illiterate’.
This attitude remains wherever the Queen’s men physically subdued the natives. Thus in the Middle East, you see a lot of truck drivers, carpenters and janitors imported from Europe taking high offices. The moment they land in some King/Sheikh xxxx Airport, they throw away their cargo pants for Executive Suits; they leave behind their crampy London Apartments for luxurious villas by the sea. They get new visiting cards with designations such General Managers, Vice Presidents, etc.
And Mallu with his BCom and BA certificates (which are easily obtained from a printing press rather than toiling in universities) does all the ground work before the Sayipp could articulate those in his accent to make it “Professional”.
The sayipps might have left our land 60 years ago, but they still rule our minds. Our education really failed us. It is only useful in creating Mallus – egoistic hypocrites with slave mentality.
The world is no different – the more we read and the more we watch TV, the more we become slaves – slaves to selfish desires – increasing consumerism, rapes, poverty, oppression, hatred, violence, terrorism…
It’s time we stop gulping whatever is fed to us, we should rediscover the power of our minds… Let's debate over the content of Sreemathy Teacher's speech, not about the tool she uses to communicate.
Many half baked Mallu Sayipps lol’ed (Read, laughed out loud) after watching this video. Some were angry that she spoke Bilaathi language in poor taste. Some were ashamed: what if others, with whom we have boasted about our 100% literacy, hear this?
For a Mallu, it seems, the greatest achievement in education is to speak in English! unless a person speaks in proper English, he is no better than any ‘illiterate’.
This attitude remains wherever the Queen’s men physically subdued the natives. Thus in the Middle East, you see a lot of truck drivers, carpenters and janitors imported from Europe taking high offices. The moment they land in some King/Sheikh xxxx Airport, they throw away their cargo pants for Executive Suits; they leave behind their crampy London Apartments for luxurious villas by the sea. They get new visiting cards with designations such General Managers, Vice Presidents, etc.
And Mallu with his BCom and BA certificates (which are easily obtained from a printing press rather than toiling in universities) does all the ground work before the Sayipp could articulate those in his accent to make it “Professional”.
The sayipps might have left our land 60 years ago, but they still rule our minds. Our education really failed us. It is only useful in creating Mallus – egoistic hypocrites with slave mentality.
The world is no different – the more we read and the more we watch TV, the more we become slaves – slaves to selfish desires – increasing consumerism, rapes, poverty, oppression, hatred, violence, terrorism…
It’s time we stop gulping whatever is fed to us, we should rediscover the power of our minds… Let's debate over the content of Sreemathy Teacher's speech, not about the tool she uses to communicate.
I just stumbled on your blog. While I agree with the inanity of giving english the highest pedestal, I would expect a politician representing our state/country abroad to either
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b) Speak in malayalam and use an interpreter.
Hu Jintao speaks in Chinese always.
Accepting your cultural difference is better than trying to show off in a foreign tongue and not getting the message across.