- You called yourself a Zomi, but don’t know how many sub-tribes are there under the umbrella term of Zomi!
- You called yourself a Zomi, but your Tribe Certificate says something else!
- You come from Zogam, but don’t know where exactly Zogam begins or ends!
- You are not sure if Mizoram is part of Zogam or not!
- You don’t know where exactly Ciimnuai is!
- You don’t know, and never bothered to ask the ultimate objectives of the ZRA, CNF, etc. but you are a sympathizer!
- You are smart enough to write and speak fluent English but fumbled for words when expressing yourself or writing in your mother tongue!
- You can’t complete a single sentence without a bit of Meitei, Kawl, Hindi or/and English!
- Your CD case is flooded with various Zomi VCDs but you are too embarrassed to play them in the presence of your non-Zomi friends!
- You are an NRZ (Non-Resident Zomi)!
(Okay, okay, I admit I’m one of them…but don’t look at me like that!!!)
1 comment:
Hey Lyan, You are absolutely right. We call ourself a Zomi and dont want to use any Zomi dialects, we think our own dialect is a universal language. We may not have a political Zogam but we do, our inhabited lands are Zo land in itself, no body need to clarify that this is Zogam or not, all the land that we inhabited from time immemorial is Zogam, it ma not be in the political map.
In the case of "Your CD case is flooded with various Zomi VCDs but you are too embarrassed to play them in the presence of your non-Zomi friends!" sentence, i dont have any foreign kesets in my case, only Zo songs! Hahahahaaa
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