Trivia question: who is my avatar?

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He was a great person.

[Art_from_Ark]

1. I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and guess that it's

Sandokan the Great

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2. Negative, Art (nt)

[lame54]

3. Eraserhead?

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4. Seriously?

I thought this would be a walk-away.

[Scuba]

6. That's lame, borderline racist.

[lame54]

9. on this side of the border...

I can barely see the pic on the phone
Who is it?

[azurnoir]

5. B R Ambedkar albeit in every other picture he is wearing glasses?

I had another choice but your message reads was indicating he is no longer living

[Chan790]

7. Vivekananda

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda (12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendra Nath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk and chief disciple of the 19th-century saint Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the introduction of the Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world and is credited with raising interfaith awareness, bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion during the late 19th century. He was a major force in the revival of Hinduism in India, and contributed to the concept of nationalism in colonial India. Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission. He is perhaps best known for his inspiring speech which began, "Sisters and brothers of America ...," in which he introduced Hinduism at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago in 1893.

My former roommate was a fan...I don't think Swami Vivekananda would have approved. Said roommate was a bit of an cultural supremacist...he was from Northern India and looked down on Southern Indians, Bangladeshis, Pakistanis, Arabs, Chinese, Yoga practitioners in the US, Muslims, Buddhists, Christians, Catholics more so, Hispanics, Blacks and Caucasians; most of all Americans and Brits, including the Irish. He kept claiming we were appropriating their culture to here at the same time we were destroying it there.

My roommate (intentionally unnamed) saw no conflict between loving his own culture and the man who spread it worldwide...and hating cultural ecumenicism.

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8. Ding ding

Well played.

Vivekenandi was himself Bengali, so I doubt he would have approved of your roommate's perspective...