Again I'm not sure that anything is keeping the country afloat other than the good nature of the people to simply survive.
There are many other cases out there, but they don't get the same voice in the media.
That doesn't help anything. Both things aren't problems, you bringing up another country's problems doesn't make your country look better.
It's like saying "Our country has illegal loan sharking? Well, your country has immoral bankers, so there!". Just muddying the waters is what you're doing.
You have a term for it - "eve teasing".
Also, you guys tend to have a big slant towards victim shaming - no decent woman will get raped. This is generally in the countryside.
In the big cities, many countries have issued travel advisories because of rape to avoid India for female travelers.
So yes, there is a qualitative difference between Indian rape and western rape. Don't muddy the waters with other matters of sexual misconduct. We're talking about India here.
Even the majority of mythologies, and social perceptions don't victim blame in the case of rape so I don't know where this "no decent woman will get raped" is coming from. However I will admit that there's still a perception that going out at night is dangerous which, even as a guy, I subscribe to for the most part. It is nullified if I'm going with others, and depending on the area. Unfortunately there's still a social stigma associated to the rape victim, which is changing.
"So yes, there is a qualitative difference between Indian rape and western rape."
What a load of bullocks. There's a "qualitative difference" between the crimes of all countries as all crimes are dependent on their specific geographies, culture, and people, which all invariably change. This is the case even in the USA.
"In the big cities, many countries have issued travel advisories because of rape to avoid India for female travelers."
Based on what? One anecdotal case? Or based on what statistic? Or is it just manufactured? I mean what proof do you have to actually make it a valid claim?
That's a specious argument. There are differences between crimes of all cultures, and there are similarities. One huge difference is that rape videos are widely distributed and sold in India, without much social condemnation. That indicates a level of acceptance and social integration not present in most other countries. http://www.aljazeera.com/blogs/asia/2016/10/al-jazeera-purch...
> Based on what?
http://qz.com/346172/what-countries-around-the-world-tell-wo...
The travel advisories are out there. Not just rape, but lewd acts and molestations. Are these travel advisories well founded? Maybe, maybe not. But the fact is that they exist.
Just FYI, rape happens in the USA too (cf. Brock Turner). No government can "solve" the rape problem.
I grew up in India. I had a decent number of Indian women as friends, who were close enough that they'd tell me very personal details. Not one of them ever mentioned being assaulted to me.
I then moved to the US. And about 1 in 5 women I've come to know have told me that they were assaulted. This ties in well with the official statistics[1], which works to roughly 500,000 women being raped per year.
On the other side, here's a news article claiming that ~34,000 women were raped in India in 2015 [2]. In a country with ~500 million women, that's a pretty small number (with the caveat that even 1 rape is 1 too many, in my view).
So please, enlighten us with where you got your "order of magnitude more" number from.
[1] http://www.nsvrc.org/sites/default/files/publications_nsvrc_...
[2] http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/08/india-34000-cases-rape...
The level of barbarism inflicted on women in India during acts of rape is chilling. Like Isis levels of savagery.
That's how it's an order of magnitude worse.
And rarely is anyone charged let alone convicted for such brutality.
In the years since I moved to San Francisco, there have been plenty of such cases in just this little area. Example: [1]
And don't even get me started on the rapes of little boys committed by Catholic priests, all over the country.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Richmond_High_School_gang...
As for police investigation the state I live in is quite strict. So much so that even a mere accusation can get you thrown into jail and ruin your life. So charges are brought against the perpetrators, and the judicial system is continuously improving. To say that "it doesn't exist" is a blatant hyperbole that honestly I believe reeks of malicious intent.
As characterizing India's situation as special, or extraordinary in comparison to any first-world country is extremely dishonest. So while Rape is most definitely a problem, and the judicial system in India is especially lacking, the criminality is not.