Re: ARTICLE : This is the way of the Western Media!

Posted By prasad (prasad@stud.uni-frankfurt.de)
17 Mar 1997 16:29:16 GMT

> My point is, why CNN is so keen of mentioning, 'Hindu Brahmin convert.'
>
> Does it expect,
> 1.More converts?
> 2.To make this as a big issue to mock at hindu religion?
>
> Being a hindu or christian is a person's own choice.(And, I personally
> feel, only a person who does not know much about his/her own religion
> converts to another and shouts a lot of it). But, after 49 years of her
> conversion, now CNN sees as a big issue.
>
> The pity on us is, we are buying what it (the western media) wants to
> sell. When Prince Charles was told inclining to Buddhism, it showered a
> very harsh attack. And, now here, it again wants to make an issue on it.
>

I think you make a good point here. Perhaps one of the roots of
this could lie in the fact that both Hinduism and Buddhism seem to imply
a renounciation of Western style materialism. By way of example, one can
be a devout Christian or Jew and still be very successful, financially speaking.
Although this is also possible in Hinduism and Buddhism, someone who is
an advanced yogi (to use the example of Hinduism) would not be concerned with
material possessions since he/she knows that the Self is all.

Another point that one could consider is that Hinduism (but not
Buddhism) does not actively seek converts in the way that Christianity does.
Perhaps this could be another reason why CNN chose to mention it.
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