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The most arresting images of Hindu symbols can't be found in a museum or on a website. Instead, you'll find them tattooed onto the arms, torsos, necks, and legs of young women who teach yoga. It's a permanent display of multiculturalism that raises questions deeper than whether you can do a headstand. And we're not talking a discreet little Namaste tucked under an ankle somewhere. We're talking full-on sleeve tattoos. Designs that cover the entire back. Images that protrude out of sports bras. I'm a married man, but hey, you can't help but notice these things. And wonder what it all means. A tragic story in the Los Angeles Times brought home the point recently. It told of a 16-year-old girl in an Indian village who was raped and then essentially ignored by the village elders. She killed herself. The story has sparked national attention and outrage across India due to the broader plight of young women. According to the Times, rape is underreported because of the family shame that attaches to it and the unlikelihood that a sexually assaulted young woman will ever find a mate. The story also raised attention to the traditional method of village governance, under which the wealthy and powerful males of a region essentially decide all legal matters and dismiss claims of sexual assault. The condoning-and even the ordering-of honor killings, in which young women accused of sexual activity are murdered-also became a topic for discussion. I'm not about to criticize India as a nation, which has made enormous strides in the decades since independence to raise hundreds of millions out of dire poverty. India has also become a major trading partner of the United States and a counterweight in Asia to the dominance of China. The administration of George W. Bush deserves special credit for solidifying that relationship. Nor am I about to say anything negative about Hinduism, one of the world's great religions. I just find striking the rather naïve devotion to a system that so vigorously denies the rights of young woman to personal safety, freedom from sexual assault, and the ability to have an intimate relationship without risking judicially sanctioned murder. Yoga's great. It's fantastic exercise, it releases the toxins in your system, it stretches you out and gives your internal organs a massage like none other. The term yoga means "unity" - as in unity of body, mind, and soul. Movement, thought and breath come together on the yoga mat as nowhere else. So the question has to be asked: how could so many young, spiritual, thoughtful women in our society so vigorously cover their bodies with imagery tied to the very system that subordinates women (and the poor) and denies women their age and younger the very rights to personal freedom and choice that we Americans take for granted? It all comes down to one word: multiculturalism. Now, I'm all for kids learning about other societies, other worldviews, other religions, and other economic systems. But the problem is that our schools present other approaches to life, spirituality, and government as if they were all equally valid. They aren't. The concept of American exceptionalism has taken a massive beating over the last few decades and has been all but kicked to the curb by the Obama Administration, for whom multiculturalism is a foundational belief. Specifically, the idea that America is no better and no worse than any other nation on the planet, and that "it's wrong to judge." It's not wrong to judge. And we are different. This is the only country in the world where ethnicity is a matter of interest but not a reason to kill someone. We don't have ethnic cleansing here-we have ethnic restaurants. We embrace people from every part of the planet and we have a term for them. Americans. This doesn't happen anywhere else. Ethnicity is not the key determinant in what makes America unique. It's the idea carved into the base of the Statue of Liberty: Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Not breathing freely as in a yoga class, but living free of massacres, of pogroms, of being forced out of one's community or one's country because of one's ethnic identity. America transcends ethnicity. That's our uniqueness and our greatness. The young women teaching yoga and getting themselves inked up with all those beautiful Hindu images may have simply taken the idea of non-judgmental multiculturalism a shade too far. I can guarantee that nowhere in the world do young women tattoo American flags onto their backs. But we don't ask for that as a nation. We look askance at the policies that other nations permit, such as the ones described above. But as for the cultures as a whole…we need not judge. I have an idea. If you're going to get a tattoo, how about an eagle with the phrase E Pluribus Unum? It might not be as sexy as a Namaste. But it's what protects our right to live as we choose. And that's a position more important than any you can take on a yoga mat. |
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