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I'm not sure how to address it, but if I'm reading you and rayiner correctly, you're both trying to make an anticolonial point. He's saying something about India being older and therefore more culturally mature, or something. No?

Admittedly the comment should have been less snarky but that's a different issue.

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Thanks for flagging the rayiner comment.

rayiner's original comment was defending colonialism.

"If it wasn’t for British colonialism, both of us would be subsistence farmers right now instead of on HN."

If you read his subsequent comment "forest/indoor plumbing" it is definitely sarcastic and comes off racist.

Further down he switches to India being older but does not consider that ancient Indian history is whitewashed in today's world in most western cultures.

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