English!! Do you speak it?

This past week my timeline was filled with Mr.Subedi's incident over there at the UN headquarters at New York. For some reason he could not understand the word cuisine and he kept saying "rice".
Although the "Dal Bhaat Power, Twenty Four Hour!" slogan is famous in Nepal, the interviewer found it to be very funny and the video got viral.

After all the laughs and gags had ended in Facebook about the incident, there were a group of people sympathizing with him. While on the other hand youngsters and some old people were sharing the video and making fun of him there some people criticizing the sharers. All in all it turned from a funny incident to a very big issue. People were supporting Mr.Subedi from a point of view that everyone does not have to be well versed in English and some even stated his Curriculum Vitae over the social Network.

So, it is true that everyone should be good at their jobs but it is not necessary that everyone should be well versed in another language. I am even surprised that he understood that accent and the question (some part of it) when most of my classmates who shared those videos can't even spell "serendipity". But that being said it was a fiasco because he couldn't understand it and in a personal level it was kind of funny and we should have left it there.

But no, all of us have to stretch it to unbelievable lengths. It is bad to make fun of someone who has a weakness but while all this went through, it reflected the part of society. See, the majority of people that use Facebook actively from my experience is the population of people from age 15 to 28 from Nepal. I am talking about us using Facebook most compared to other age group. This group of people are the same group of people who have been ridiculed for not having a good command over English in their schools by their teachers. Some of us have even had harsh punishments for speaking Nepali at school grounds. Thus, this regressive teaching method developed a mentality that made an image onto our minds.

The image was "Those who cannot speak English, are dumb asses!" That is the reason why students try to speak with fake accents and make fun of those who cannot. This is my claim against those people who are complaining the people who shared the video and terming the sharers as "Insensitive people". I am not saying that was not insensitive but this has more deeper roots in our society than we are looking at. If we dig deeper the teaching method that fosters a mentality that inability to speak English is inferiority when it clearly not. This teaching dictum is the reason why most have become insensitive to this issue.

But it justified to say that insensitivity is wrong. As Rabindra Mishra Sir said, doing something good is far better than speaking English. But we still have to look at our society and the kind of culture we are fostering. This is an indicator of how twisted our society has become. There are no heroes or villains but just victims and perpetrators in society and roles switch instantaneously. The sooner we realize this fact about our society and sooner we review our education system (Not just formal education but moral education as well), the better!