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		<title>Hindi &#8211; Hindu &#8211; Indian &#8212; what&#8217;s the difference?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I was reading the newspaper yesterday (like I do everyday of course) and headlines on main page surprised me:  Something about Hindi Community suffering a terrible tragedy.  The article was about a known and good hearted person from the Indian community in Montreal who passed away in an accident.  While this blog entry is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So I was reading the newspaper yesterday (like I do everyday of course) and headlines on main page surprised me:  Something about Hindi Community suffering a terrible tragedy.  The article was about a known and good hearted person from the Indian community in Montreal who passed away in an accident.  While this blog entry is not about that, it really brought a good question in my mind, what is it with folks over here not knowing the difference between &#8220;Hindi&#8221;, &#8220;Hindu&#8221; and &#8220;Indian&#8221;?</p>
<p>All of you guys out there who have no idea how to call us Indians, here&#8217;s the difference:</p>
<p>Hindi &#8212; Language we speak in India, so calling &#8220;Hindu&#8221; community a &#8220;Hindi&#8221; community will be totally wrong!  Imagine, a major english newspaper in Montreal making such a stupid mistake, that too, big bold headline on the main page.  *rolls eyes*.</p>
<p>Hindu &#8212; A person who adheres to Hinduism (the religion).  It does not necessarily means that he is from India, he/she could be from anywhere really, as long as they believe in Hinduism and call themselves Hindu.<br />
Indian -  A person from India.  So No! People from India are not &#8220;Hindi&#8221; (actually no one can be called Hindi as it&#8217;s a language, you can&#8217;t be &#8220;Hindi&#8221;, you can only &#8220;Speak Hindi&#8221; or you can be &#8220;Hindu&#8221;) and no, not everybody in India is a &#8220;Hindu&#8221;, in fact we have a very mixed population with all religions present strongly, be it Muslims, Jews, Catholics, Sikhs, Parsis, Jains, Buddhists.  Please do understand the distinction: &#8220;Hindu community&#8221; vs &#8220;Indian community&#8221;</p>
<p>Not only does the Montreal Gazette puts that in their Sunday May 6th newspaper, but also, in another little news snippet, they think Lahore is in India, the headline:<br />
Lahore, India</p>
<p>right!</p>
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