Cultural
hegemony devises people. It segregates the people from two or more distinct
culture. Especially people who come from first class find second class citizens
of their own country culturally backward and uncivilized. The caste system in
hindu countries like our has typically refortified those class and caste who
have been privileged from decades ago. Thus its not surprising for
Kathmanduites to find Janakpurian a way backward than them because they live in
capital city. Living in sophisticated plaace and thus glorifying oneself is the
matter of ego satisfaction on the circumstance of materialism. Materialistic thoughts
and movement of people also creates fraction among them. People with privilege
of all the necessary and advanced suppliers regard them more advantaged. Thus binary
and heterogeneous cultural formation are the results of society’s geographical
and cultural practices. Such cultural practices are vague because they don’t
have scientific measures to define their parameters.
No
big matter that Kathmandu and Janakpur both are holy cities. Both share common
culture of hindu doctrines but the problem with them is class and caste system.
Caste system has even become successful to keep one in border of indifference. Another
most striking cause is the varied cultural practices that have made
Janakpurians far way to catch the status of Bihar’s and Uttar Pradesh identity.
Culturally the social dogmas make them for incompatible cultures of hilly and Himalayan
region. The practices of marriage, family life and daily life behavioral are
much ruled posed. The private life of women in Janakpur has been presented as much
ideal and prestigious because they are regularized in strict paternal society. The
cultural practices of putting a woman under “Ghunghat” represents not civilized
and most prestigious culture for those western loving women of valley.
Civilization
and city culture has been able to put us far from each other. We hardly find
the person from other culture mere tolerant and as good as us. This is
typically much bigger problem in valley because of education and fast pacing
internet. Being accustomed with western culture and trying oneself to put on
level of westerners by copying their dress style and phony language valley
dwellers have been able to marginalize the Madhesh ideology. City dwellers are nothing
more than a mannequin dressed and tongued in western discourses. Should we let
them construct this identiy or should Madhesh need to change the ideology? The cultural
construction of ideology and habitual practices are the reasons that have surely
kept Madesh in periphery of cultural progression. S
Janakpur
and Kathmandu are the emblems of two culturally distinct orientations. Former is
cosmopolitically governed whereas latter remains as historically governed. The cultural
ambivalence between them is defining them in their own terms. The right hand of
binary opposiotion always functions as the powerful device to subvert the left
hand side of the powerful regime. Thus, the distraction of civic culture found in
Madhesh culture must be put to access of a bit global and scientific education.
Culturally forming binary and oppsiting ideas were there in history and will
continue to exist despite persistent activism and call for recognized appearance.
The appearance doesn’t seem problem here rather the acquisition of self purity.
Confronting the current crisis of cultural binary opposition must thus be
challenged and subtracted from the egotistical notion of caste and class superhot
by valley dwellers. Resolute and prudent consciousness of city dwellers will
help to curtail such detestable ideas for each other.
