Reflections / 22.05.2009
Reflections: Go Mohammedans?
Can you tell me what is meant by ‘sublimated violence’?
I am asking this question to try to answer another that was put to me yesterday. It has left me quite perplexed.
A reader wrote and described the following observation. He was attending a serious talk by an American professional. Somewhere in the middle of the talk, the presenter had occasion to mention he was from Pittsburg. All of a sudden, he swiveled from his hip, pumped up his fist, and shouted ‘Go Steelers.’ And then he continued with his serious presentation.
The question posed by the reader was whether I could imagine a South Asian doing something like that and if not, why not?