Their fight: India decided to rename the dragon fruit to spite China (6 photos)

It is believed that India is trying to get rid of the influence of other cultures - European, Islamic, in order to "de-stylize" the purely Hindu culture.





These are the plantations that have grown in India

But this time they decided to fight not with the British, but with China, with whom India has rather tense relations.

What's wrong with dragon fruit?



There was a BBC story about renaming the fruit

Watch the hands, what is the name of the fruit? Dragon fruit. And what country is the dragon a symbol of? That's right, China.

That's why Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani told the media that the fruit will now be called "kamalam" (Sanskrit for "lotus") because its spiky outer part resembles this flower. The flower is also the national flower of India. So they made the fruit from Chinese into Indian.

A worthy response to China?





By the way, have you tried it? It tastes like a very watery strawberry to me

The thing is that it wasn't China that came up with the name for dragon fruit, they have nothing to do with it. It comes from the distant lands of central Mexico and South America.

It got its name from the dragons that its bright red skin with green scales resembles, not exactly the Chinese idea of ​​dragons.

And it has only recently been cultivated in India, with plantations appearing in many states, including Gujarat, Kerala, Karnataka and Maharashtra among others.



The Indians themselves joke by renaming all things with a dragon to kamlan (lotus)

And this move to rename to something familiar can actually help Indians get used to the dragon fruit faster and include it in their usual diet. Although it is unlikely to be affordable for the general population in the near future.



Crouching tiger, hidden KAMLAN, girl with KAMLAN tattoo, how to tame KAMLAN

- We believe that the level of acceptance of the fruit will also increase if it is considered an Indian fruit," the state chief minister said.

And what next, how will we rename the banana? I won't even mention the Chinese pear.



The Indians are having fun themselves