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> I loathe this kind of thing

I meant "academic learnings." "Learnings" is not a word in the English language.

When I see writing that is this bad, it evokes, to me, an image of an Indian student who effectively only learned math/computer science/engineering, and does not have a sufficiently broad education to think critically and independently about anything else.




As much as you might loathe it, learnings is now a word (and has been used intermittently for a new centuries [1]) so deal with it.

Additionally, Indian students do the best they can given the limited resources (we have). And even when they do have broad education it's not going to be about Mozart and effect of WWII on the western nations - they will always be out of context when it comes to western culture. It's the same kind of lack of ability to think (or express without getting eyebrows raised) about everything else that you might be showing here.

[1] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/learnings


Seems more like you are a provincial person who is not aware that English has many dialects.


Why does it have to be an Indian student? Your point would be equally valid without racist generalizations.


edit: To put it more simply, a stereotype is not the same thing as racism.




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