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He is from 'Haryana'!

Once again I was forced into a debate. Debate superficially was on the language ‘haryanvi’ but I believe it was more on mentality and perception of people which make them take decision rather than rational thinking. A group of my 'friends' were discussing something on ‘khap panchayat’ and while passing by, I too tried to crack a joke on that. But suddenly someone criticized people of Haryana for their use of ‘haryanvi’(?). It really pushed me into the discussion and I was surprised at their comments, which were way too offending. I shall start with the comments and later will try to look into a bigger picture behind this. Someone started with an incident referring to the rudeness of the language by giving an example of conductor, who misbehaved with him. I too believe that this dialect is aggressive but can this be used to criticize someone? I mean that guy, who mentioned the incident, could have been born in some village of Haryana and would have been using this same way of