- Assamese or Megalaya or Mizoram people often watch Hindi movies, but how often do Delhi people watch a movie in any of the tribal languages ? .. as Hindi is bing strenghthened then Tribal and minority culture is being weakened

- This recognised by people in Nagaland and people are often shot by terrorists for being Hindi Speakers .. which of course is not right.

- Governments should speak the language of their bosses ... the people not force them to conform to it's language. People in Wales can learn Welsh and do all government business in Welsh. They can as most do learn English if they like, but no one says they have to learn French cos the EU is centred in Brussels. Likewise people of all states should only need to learn their own language and then if they want the language of the state : Assamese, Tamil, Gujarati etc.

- Hindi is not the national language- Like German in europe it's an imporant language and spoken in more than 1 state, but German isn't the national language of the European Union.

- Unfortunately English is the International language. Yes there are some transnational organizations like the Indian Army so I can see the government saying it needs one language, but it would be better if there were only state armies, that way the army could relate to local people better instead of being perceived as Hindi outsiders

- I noticed in Rita's film about a Mizo athlete 60% of the film was taken up by the Indian national Anthem - could be due to brainwashing in school history lessons ?

- I noticed in Malaysia they talked about National Unity and that's rubbish as well as there are only people not people belonging to a geographical location.

-1. It was interesting to hear what Devabrata observed that hill tribes behaviour has got worse since they got TV and they are behaving much more like people from Delhi.

- That they had a better morality before ... with TV and urbanisation they have declined, but have not yet got the "education" and awareness of developed countries, which have better attitudes.

- I certainly prefer the hill cultures of Megahalya and Mizoram to the crowded plain city's where there seem to be much more "stupid" and irritating people.

- it's a convenient shorthand to say "Western", but in fact values are not geographical they are just modern newer and better as opposed to older and worse. Like saying it's not acceptable to beat your wife, believing all people should be treated equally etc.

- I believe that values, attitudes and culture wil in future get better and better, like the same way we no longer accept head hunting, or slavery.
- Say Modern not Western

-insurance man's despair at false claims

Upoad lp comment done India mike

- British set up ILP system

- mountain culture

Khasi food - Sometimes I feel like the guy spreading misery by saying that Santa Claus doesn't exist .. i.e. In the way I dispel their naïve simplistic fantasies , but I proved you can travel to see for yourself at low cost. - The thing is I expose the discomfort of what is different rather than what we share in. .. But apart from fruit and truth what can I share ?

- Why don't Nepalis identify themselves by tribe first ? - There are about 20 Nepali tribes and 18 have their own language. One of the strangest things to me is when you ask them their name it often shows they are a member of one of the 18 tribes that have their own language yet they still identify themselves as Nepali not Tamang, Rai, Limbu etc even though they or their parents have never been to Nepal . And it's not only to foreigners ... many of them livein India and speak Nepali, but they don't know there own tribal language.
- If you meet an ethnic Welsh person in Argentina I am sure they would identify themselves as Welsh rather than British.

- could be due to brainwashing in school history lessons ?