India: It's Worse Than You Think
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However, many of the quotes could have relatively easily replaced "Indian" with "American" and I'm not sure I would have noticed other than the occasional references to India specific cultural institutions and caste ideas.
- Many people lie openly. Everyone knows everyone lies, but everyone lies anyway. Many 'Americans' convince themselves of their lies so that they can no longer differentiate between fact and fiction.
- Among ordinary 'Americans', conversations revolve around backbiting, gossiping about friends, discussing celebrities, exchanging superstitions, and animosity toward other groups.
- When I was a child growing up in 'America', I learned that “might makes right.” Power was often abused, with those in control acting as if they had a God-given right to exploit and dominate others. The display of authority could be so extreme that questioning it or expecting those in power to do their duty might lead to retribution. Those in authority seemed to believe that their positions were not for serving others but for personal gain.The article/video is full of inflammatory language and is the very definition of "hate speech".
Please stop posting such things here.
Do you usually allows white supremacy masquerading as intellectualism?
A tad racist here? Contrast with how they do in the US: https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/11h2fc0/median_...
Any time you see a country => IQ mapping somewhere, you should assume you're getting worked. Lynn's work is the most credible attempt at that, and nobody even a little bit serious takes it even a little bit seriously.
But I don't know if the situation is as hopeless as the author describes. Maybe in a personal sense it is hopeless to change society. But there is always a larger undercurrent that we often overlook. Nature dictates that everything that is damaged beyond repair will be destroyed. And rebuilt, renewed.
And in this sense: happy holidays and a happy new year!
A reckoning is coming, but for tech, not India.
I have actually lived in India. I experienced a lot of what the author talks about with regard to corruption, the culture of corruption, the dirtiness and how the cities are jam packed beyond imagination, there's a culture of degradation of those viewed as lesser than you. But in my experience it's not an honorless society devoid of all virtue and all that like the speaker said. Many people do have a sense of real justice there and do want those aspects of the society to be changed, I could tell you stories that would make you weep with joy. I think the speaker is overly cynical about the state of India socially.
I am an Indian currently living in India but have also lived in the US for a long time. Even with that knowledge i would never use such inflammatory language to describe the ills of either country. The person has an hateful agenda not meaningful to solving any problems and hence should not be tolerated nor given any publicity.
Nobody is trying to do "thought control" here. The point is that some subjects should be approached properly and respectfully in order to have some sort of a discussion else it is merely rabble-rousing for the peanut gallery.