Influence of Food on Indian Culture

Abstract

The purpose of this paper has been to describe the mentality of the race conscious. Such problems as the origin of race consciousness, its natural history, and its relation to race movements have been ignored. Race consciousness has been described as the tendency of members of a racial group to identify themselves emotionally and ideologically with their race. They tend to react, and think within a racial frame of reference. Their status and welfare as persons are associated with the status and welfare of their race. The race conscious may be characterized as follows: they tend to develop a sense of oppression, especially if they belong to low status racial groups; they are sensitive relative to the qualities, honor and prestige of their race, resenting any attacks or derogatory reactions; their race becomes a social object, a mental stereotype, which evokes their devotion and loyalty; they take pride in their race, stressing its achievements, loyal to its great men and defending its honor, this pride bolstering their conception of self; they develop racial prej udices against competing racial groups; they become aware of a mission and a destiny, secure in their hopes for the future of the race; and, there is a tendency for a sentimental solidarity to develop among the race conscious, especially so in the case of the oppressed races. Race consciousness is merely another form of group consciousness, serving the same purpose and playing the same role essentially in the life of the individual that any other type of group consciousness does.