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The Anatomy of a Hollow Society: An Audit of Nepal’s Missing Moral Core

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Returning to Nepal in 2013 after spending most of the preceding twenty-five years abroad, I made a few devastating discoveries about Nepali society. One was how hollow and deeply flawed it was. Struggling to recover from major personal issues, I needed to understand the details of this "hollowness" for my own sanity. Starting in late 2020, I began documenting evidence of this decay on X/Twitter. In this post, I share an analysis of those 130 documented instances to demonstrate exactly how and why Nepali society is currently lost in a state of hollow confusion.

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Manly Nepali Men or Wee-men?

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If you are struggling with mental health issues—especially when those issues are fueled by the bleakness of the world around you—one coping mechanism is to look for the funny side of things. Doing so allows you to laugh when you might otherwise spend all your time crying.

This is an account of a coping mechanism I adopted while in Nepal and how, in the process, I ended up documenting the shocking level of patriarchy and sexism that exists there.

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With Many Nepali Men, You Can Take Them Out of Nepal BUT You Can’t Take Nepal Out of Them

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I avoided being part of Nepali associations and organizations all the years I lived abroad. Luckily, that wasn't too difficult most of the time because most places I lived in neither had any sizeable Nepali population nor organizations.

One reason behind the avoidance was a discovery I made about many Nepali men -- you can take them out of Nepal, but you can't take Nepal out of them!

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When Form and Protocol (“Sanskriti”) Generally Take Precedent Over and Is Valued More Than Substance…

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When form and protocol generally take precedent over and is valued more than substance, a society struggles to make social, economic, and political progress. One such form and protocol is showing respect for and/or deferring to old men. In this blog post I demonstrate how two old men use the guise of lack respect for old men as a pretext for silencing young adult women of similar academic and professional stature as them for no other reason than the fact that they are female.

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