India is a land of unity in diversity! We all believe that we Indians can live peacefully with each other if not agitated by others! That is in some ways true, but there will always be some sort of friction between people as a result of the diversity. Hindi is the national language of India but this does not give the right to the Hindi speaking community ( I am speaking about the mass public in general ) to make a laughing stock of other languages!! All languages other than their own are jeered at by most of the people here! This is truly embarassing for us who take pride in the fact that we have such a diverse culture and yet it is we, ourselves who pick on the most basic symbol of the culture - their language! I know that the mass I am talking about will hardly ever read this blog and even if they do, most of them will hardly be able to understand it! These people are so proud to be able to speak Hindi, they are never able to completely cope up with English, the language that is universally spoken and which is the most useful in the working arena!
Being a person from a non-Hindi speaking community, I have tried to learn Hindi without formal education but sometimes, grammatical mistakes occur, and people cling on to these mistakes rather than seeing the correctness of the Hindi spoken most of the times. These sort of incidents I, myself, have seen making people frustrated! Thus, as a result people end their attempt to properly learn this language and go back to their roots and their mother-tongues!! This further results in vernacularism! I personally have nothing against Hindi but it is the superiority complex of these people that does not go well with me!!
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