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Read through the comments of an indian news website. Makes me sad. We should love more. I hope people are better than that. A lot of sexuality based and religion based hate. I hope things improve. I hope people love more.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/Being-gay-...

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Read the comments on Yahoo or Redstate. You will find similar comments. Don't judge a country by the cranks online.

I agree. Also, youtube.

People in India on an average are intolerant and mean. I have spent some time in the US and I was surprised to find that the average person you run into in the world is a nice person. I dont know why it is so in India. May be its because of the population pressure and a bad selection criteria in society. In some situations mean behaviour is the only way how you get things done.

There's plenty of intolerance and meanness in the US, and population density isn't a factor. We're good at hiding it in casual interactions.

Pretty smart generalization!

Crikey, I always assumed the Times Of India had an intelligent readership.

Far from it. People subscribe to it for their daily dose of cleavage in their newspaper supplements that can be passed of as journalism. In other words its mostly a tabloid.

Some 10 years ago it used to be a really nice newspaper though and I mean really good. Their editorials used to be held up as examples of good writing skills. Now you would find typos, grammatical errors, not to mention factual errors.

EDIT @zimpenfish > Murdoch paper, by any chance? Nope, at least not yet. Small mercies I guess.

> People subscribe to it for their daily dose of cleavage

Murdoch paper, by any chance?

Intelligent =/= Tolerant

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