They have a rich history but they live in the past, lacking modern sensibilities. Proud, arrogant, ignorant, short-sighted are some words that come to mind.
How common are school shootings in India? Don’t get me wrong, the India is a shithole, but USA is more horrible if you’re poor, a woman, or a minority.
From Wikipedia: An honor killing (American English), honour killing (Commonwealth English), or shame killing is the murder of an individual, either an outsider or a member of a family, by someone seeking to protect what they see as the dignity and honor of themselves or their family. Honor killings are often connected to religion, caste, other forms of hierarchical social stratification, or sexuality. Most often, it involves the murder of a woman or girl by male family members, due to the perpetrators’ belief that the victim has brought dishonor or shame upon the family name, reputation or prestige.
Well I don’t want to get all controversial about it but the thing about India is it’s a country in South Asia with a land area of approximately 3.3 million square kilometers and a population of roughly 1.4 billion. And that might be a hot take, but also we have to keep in mind its primary exports are petroleum goods and textiles. Don’t even get me started on how its borders are the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea, and the Bay of Bengal.
It’s worth more than one visit, just due to its huge diversity. Food is amazing, and it’s very lively. But you have to get used to it, and go with the flow. If you can’t live without all the first world luxuries and/or don’t feel comfortable stepping outside your bubble, don’t go, it’s not the place for you.
Would I live there? No. And I’m deeply saddened by the political direction it’s heading in. But don’t form opinions about countries you’ve never been to.
Multiple national security sources alleged that Indian officials did not dispute the allegations in closed-door meetings with Canadian officials. The Guardian could not independently verify the CBC’s reporting.
Read that Guardian article yourself before sending.
This is a weird one. Some call the guy terrorist because he was part of a movement that’s been going on for past 50 years and gaining traction recently.
Good things include: nice food, diverse places to travel to, socialist programmes to support poor people so they don’t die of hunger, simple lifestyle, fast internet connection, okayish job market.
Bad things: a huge population means lots of criminals as well, politicians here loot the poor, the cities are fucked with lots of people, little space to hangout, public transport sucks, culturally regressive society in regards to individual, women and trans rights, people are becoming more violent, Hindu vs Muslim bullshit rather than focus on making things better.
I work in program in Canada where I see lots of immigrants, and many of them are from India. And they’re some of pretty good people I’ve met. Some were very humbling, some funny as fuck, some cool as shit. Rarely I’d see somebody who’s on the bad side. They’re very respectful of women here and treat others with respect including people with disabilities, even went out of their way to help.
And yes, they acknowledge some dark side of India but there are also beautiful parts that they all love.
A country full of people that absolutely have to get off the plane RIGHT NOW! The plane is back on the ground! Why aren’t we off the plane RIGHT NOW! Nevermind the fact that it’s still moving, we have to get off NOW!
Getting worse thanks to the news I receive being a drip-feed of violent gang rapes and increasingly worrying politics. I’m sure that’s very biased and incorrect, but I wish I heard better things.
Damn new racism just dropped: Yokels who’ve never been there wanna bash an entire nation and culture based on its government. Shouldn’t be surprised Lemmy is already overrun with those disgusting fucks. Europeans are as racist as Canadians.
It’s unfortunate that their infrastructure isn’t great right now. It’s unfortunate the inequality in their society right now. They are still recovering from what England did.
Nevertheless, it is the home of some of humanity’s greatest culture. Amazing food, beautiful people, wonderful aesthetics, fascinating languages. Spiritual home to some of the most profound philosophy and religion humans have ever created. Amazing flora and fauna too.
Everything about India is incredible. There’s just a lot of work to do.
Shhhh… you’re not allowed to point out anti-Indian racism on internet forums.
Seriously though, it’s amazing how many people can’t see how they use the same fucking rhetoric talking about Indians that they themselves would immediately condemn being used against any other population.
India was systematically robbed by an industrialized, kleptomaniac regime less than a century ago. And today they are working to position themselves to be a major world power in the future and fans of colonialism and Western hegemony can’t stand it.
Yep, afford to the people the same dignity that you would afford to the population of any other country with a bad govt. Govt can change, people are a large and varied collection and not a monolith to describe in a singular method.
It has an interesting history and the amount of cultural diversity is fascinating. However, there’s a 99% chance I’ll never go there because of all the horrible stuff I have heard: misogyny, poverty, scammers, pretty damn serious child abuse, once again misogyny and poverty.
An ex British colony that could have been a superpower but got partitioned and turned into 2 countries hostile to each other, preety sad if you ask me.