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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My Indian neighbors celebrate Diwali and put up a Christmas tree in December. They give their kids Easter baskets and celebrate Holi.

Cultural mash-ups are part of what makes America glorious.  Our best cultural contributions (rock, jazz, Southern food, Asian fusion) are mash-ups.

You can be butt hurt all you want because a bunch of white women practice yoga exercises, but it doesn't matter. Nobody gives a shit. [/quote]

Once again the point that I believe OP was trying to make (though worded really poorly) is that it's absolutely fine to do yoga.  No Hindu cares if you want to do it, the problem occurs when all this de-linking from Hinduism happens.  Cutting it off and saying it's got nothing to do with our religion, that it's just a 'cultural mashup', it's just physical, it's kosher if I call it Kosher Yoga or Torah Yoga or it's not Hindu if we call it ChristianYoga or HolyMoves.

Do the Indian people you know that put up a Christmas tree have an organization changing Christmas to Krishnamas, celebrating the birth of Lord Krishna.  Do they say it's a cultural mashup and that a cradle with Baby Krishna should be placed on a makeshift manger outside.  Have they patented whatever different worship methods you do on Christmas and say it's their own now?

[b]It's one thing to recognize that you are participating in a part of another culture and to value it and appreciate it.  It's completely another thing to say if you practice it the same way and change the name that it has nothing to do with the origins.[/b]

It's a double slap in the face when ancient religious practices are patented and claimed by people who so badly try to distance themselves from the origins in fear of being "tainted" by the name Hinduism since they're so afraid of going to hell if they acknowledge that's where they are actually borrowing and learning this knowledge from.
 
If you fear Hinduism so much and hate the fact that the Sanskrit word yoga is intertwined with Hinduism and India for that matter then go back to your Step Aerobics class and leave it be and don't try to faux sanitize so you practice it without that weird Abrahamic guilt.

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rereading OP, it seems she was referring to programs that do not hide the Hindu roots. She insists not just that it has Hindu roots, but that it cannot be used apart from the Hindu roots. [/quote]

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