Originally posted by: vcs17
a generational shift has happened very rapidly in the past 20 yrs after liberalization.
we were a feudal society and then under colonial rule, the earlier generations even those born in 70s-80s were under that conditioning
there has been a shift where younger people from smaller towns have high aspirations now, education, english skills, access to information due to net and data and want to climb up the ladder and sre super confident of what they are
they dont have the revernce for the "elite" or old money which earlier generations had
they would rather worship a start up founder from a small town who has created a unicorn as they see a possibility of being like that
they are out of that conditioning, speaking a local langauge, watching indian movies is something they will do irrespective of what the elite think
kjo looking down on hindi speakers 20 yrs back would have meant, people not trying to talk hindi to fit in, now they will delibrately not talk english because they dont care to belong to that elite group
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