As a kid, I used to attend wekend art school run by the Bengali bureaucrats of the local Tagore society. Kinda killed my taste for big-A Art
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It made me associate Tagore specifically, and Bengalis in general (=artsy French of India) with being bored to death, though I liked drawing
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Just read Tagore Wikipedia page for the first time, and learned the backstory. Modern Bengalis cargo-cult him, but genuinely impressive guy.
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Yeah, I could easily do an India-Europe mapping. India-US wouldn't work. The U.S. Is not diverse enough to sustain the mapping.
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. It's old enough, big enough and potentially diverse enough. Problem is mass media hit before non-networked variety blossomed.
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No, more like Irish. Drunk, passionate/emotional brawling cheerful farmers. Germans probably closest to Tamil.
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Punjabis more like Italians - noisy love of food, family, fierce passion, not very thoughtful
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