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> I think India and Africa pretty much have the same deep-rooted culture/religion problem of ignorance, corruption and generally not giving a shit about others.

>This sort of culture has been accumulated over centuries and isn't going to go away anytime soon.

I agree with the overall sentiment in your post. Some more explanation about the culture in India which is accumulated over "centuries" would be nice. Which centuries are we talking about?

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I starts conquest of muslims from 15-16 century , effect of that in society and culture. Then european conquests from 18 century and then british rule for 200 years, first 100 under british east india company and then under queen victoria. India got its freedom in 1947 but for me it was never free. Indian and african countries were not freed to be developed and stand up for themselves. colonizers made sure of it before granting freedom to these countries. As an Indian living in the capital all my life I can say that I dont see the country getting better until everything that is working here is dismantled and fresh new start happens with new models and technology. Which seem like it will take a long and hard time added with a lot of destruction thats already happening to achieve that.

Caste System(More like Racism. Keeping groups of people away from economic opportunity), Families where people have been desperately poor for generations(poor people create more kids on average and most of them end of poor and desperate)... 100's or millions with no primary education/even literacy...

Can you give me examples of this caste system probem?

After actually living in India for some time - my impression has been the opposite - overzealous affirmative action

If you're in a position where you even have to submit a resume or deal with an organization that even knows what affirmative action is, you are already in a better caste than the majority of India.

The affirmative action is dictated by the government. Not private organizations - especially at the education level

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