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CHAPTER FORTY SIX - Wearing out refinement

VED · from VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS, Deverkovil; ved036@gmail.com

How refinement can wear out

Here I need to go back to India. Good English medium schools teach their students the elegance of queuing, giving right to precedence, not to elbow out people in front, saying Thank You, Sorry, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, Good Morning etc. and in being quite polite and courteous. However, students who come out from government vernacular schools do not usually have any such training. So, in any social interaction, these latter people would seem to be quite street-smart. The former would seem to be quite timid and too hesitating to take advantage of any chance to act discourteously to promote oneself. However, as the former slowly gets to experience his own weakness prompted by his own politeness, he would slowly remove such limiting training from his mind. He also starts using cruder techniques.

Actually I remember a principal of a central government school telling me frankly that when it comes to real competition, students who come get trained thus would outsmart the students who have had training in social civility. In many ways, he was simply suggesting the uselessness of training in social refinement.

The refinement of English nations would wear off, and a terrible kind of Asian/African social culture would come out.

An irksome mood of persevering competition

Beyond all this would be the incessant mental prompt to defeat the local native-English speaking persons and their children in every endeavour. For, at least some of these newcomers would come with a mental affliction that everything they and their children do should be with an aim to defeat the locals. They would turn every social function, including education into a field of infinite and incessant competition. The local population can at first act as if these quirks are fads that would soon go away. However, these things also, when they are still there can input deep and lingering pain and anguish on the serene English social landscape. Slowly the native-English would get the idea that brute strength is what runs things, and not quiet refinement. The feudal language social code of Might is right has arrived!

I am sure that over the decades the US social landscape has changed from all these impacts of alien objects.

VED · from VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS, Deverkovil; ved036@gmail.com

Activating indicant code triggers on the road

Then there is the issue of small vehicles being seen as inferior and big vehicles being seen as superior in the indicant word codes. It can really boost a commercial vehicle like a lorry’s driver’s ego as he sits in the huge cabin of a huge lorry. He would feel the raising of his indicant code value. The small vehicles look puny. However this would directly conflict with the ego of a driver of an expensive car. He would see a person of intrinsically low indicant value trying to rise above the parameters of his indicant value. He would treat with utter scorn the ego claims of the lorry driver.

Beyond this would be the total defining of small vehicles like motor bikes and ordinary cycle as mere insignificant things and their drivers as next to nothing. Corresponding indicant words come into play.

Then there is the issue of the ability to use a horn. Commercial drivers of jeeps, auto rickshaws etc. are seen as nonentities in feudal language social systems, by the higher groups. This an ego issue for them. Now, the other side has a very powerful weapon in their hands that can make them equal to the others, who claim social superiority. This is the horn. They will use it indiscriminately to level the social ups and downs. It is like giving a gun to a similar guy. He will use it to bring about his own social elevation, or to flatten out all other elevations.

There are other issues also. For example, a vehicle is trying to overtake another vehicle. At the same time another vehicle in coming in the opposite direction. This vehicle has to slow down to allow the overtaking vehicle time to cross. However in a feudal language nation, when the fast approaching vehicle’s driver is a low indicant level guy, instead of slowing down, he would step on the accelerator and come right in to block the overtaking vehicle and to make it go backwards. In achieving this, he would get a mental satiation of a social elevation. He is in desperate need of such positive value addition to his weak indicant value in the virtual codes.

At the same time, if the approaching vehicle is driven by a socially superior person and the overtaking vehicle is driven by socially lower indicant word level person, the superior person would feel compelled to halt the smaller man in his endeavour. For, it would seem an inappropriate thing to allow a smaller guy precedence over the superior.

There are so many such behaviour aspects that feudal language codes can activate in an individual. Now, when such persons arrive in English nations, these mental prompts can slowly get erased. However, it may take time. The mental trauma and the toll on the social communication that these irksome codes can bring in can be overwhelming and can cause a lot of bruises on the native-English citizens that would remain unhealed. In the long term, many minor areas of social refinement, politeness and a sense of fair-play would wear out. For, these things would seem quite useless when dealing with persons who exploit every act of consideration for their own gain in social competition.

VED · from VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS, Deverkovil; ved036@gmail.com

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