Copycat

Copycat, We Are All Aping USA

Our clothes, our language, our movies and our music- our way of life –are more powerful than our bombs wrote American writer/ journalist William Broyles. Yes that’s right not only we but throughout the world every one is trying to copy USA in every respect of life.

You come across American sounding avenues in Gurgaon; our own Bollywood is rampantly lifting from Hollywood movies. Ash Bhonsle in one of her interviews said that R D was so fond of English music and we know why. I don’t want to discuss about likes of Pritam or Anu Mallik. At least R D gave some lilting original tunes like the ones in Love Story, 42.

Our TV channels are looking towards America for inspiration the refined word for lifting. Be it “American Idol” or “Are you smarter than a 5th grader”.

Even news reporting format are those of CNN.

The other day I read in news paper that it was revealed that more and more research scholars in India are copy pasting the research work of American researchers…thanks to internet.
A pair of jeans has become a favoured outfit for guys and dolls, thanx uncle sam for that.

At the same time we are claiming the end of white rule, certainly through copy pasting route you can reach the mass production level as China is doing but intellectually you are a slave to those original thinkers or the creators.

During my  visit to China I noticed the presence of those American iconic out lets like Wal-Mart, Mac Donald, KFC etc. The young generation there is on black dress behave like westerner. The English songs are played in hotel lobbies. In 1998 when I visited Tokyothen one of Japanese business associates informed me that among the Asians it seems Japanese are more like Americans.

Left may shout hoarse in condemning anything to do with USA but we are already invaded and captured in every sphere of our life. If Dollar sneezes our Rupee tumbles.

We have not arrived; we slowly got sucked in what is loosely termed as western culture which is in reality American culture. We have followed the policy of “If you can’t lick them then join them.”