Culture wars that stir India and America

Communal grievance: India faces a similar culture war in its supposed mixed-marriage issue. — The Statesman/ANN

ONE of the challenges free and heterogeneous societies like India and the United States face is culture wars. I was listening to a Chinese-American student of Stanford University on a radio programme she was broadcasting. She was using terms like “yellow fever” and “rice king”.

She then went on to explain. Yellow fever is the apparent attraction that a white man feels for the East Asian woman. The same man is referred to as a rice king apparently because he loves exotic rice dishes served up by the East Asian woman. Anywhere you go in America it seems that yellow fever is raging.