Windies vs. Tiggas

Oxblood Ruffin, a member of Cult of the Dead Cow who's currently in Dharamshala working on the community wireless mesh network there, wrote in about this previous post: "Tigga, Please." Oxblood says:

I was walking down Temple Road today thinking about the "Tigga" thing. And just as I'm drifting with this, two Tiggas go one way and three Windies [Westerners dressed like Indians] pass the other.

Both groups are culturally displaced. But the Windies seem amusing since most of them will eventually go home and lose their kirtas. But the Tiggas can't go home. They're colloidal, unsettled, unassimilated. Their clothes are a cry for belonging, anywhere.

Being a victim of cultural genocide ain't pretty.

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