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HillarysBeaverMunch 15 points ago +15 / -0

This is a country that drinks from the same river wherein they discard their dead.

In spite of your favorite help desk number ("Rajiv is just like me!", the average IQ is about 80.

They still have a hierarchical caste system, don't let anyone tell you that just magically "went away" because it is now illegal.

The people at the top are allowed free reign and are rarely punished. Their kids, too.

So I am not too concerned about these numbers. They are fake numbers.

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TheCorrectSide 3 points ago +3 / -0

1 & 2 I don't know

  1. There is a caste system as in lower castes have 'reservations' in government jobs, colleges etc (equality of outcome).

  2. True

  3. They might be wrong, not through manipulation but due to the lack of resources. India is a big country.

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HillarysBeaverMunch 2 points ago +2 / -0

1 refers top the sacred River Ganges.

Lots of photos of dudes brushing their teeth in that river or bathing next to floating cadavers.

3 just refers to the poor treatment the darker groups receive. Dravidians, maybe?

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TheCorrectSide 2 points ago +2 / -0
  1. I've never been to the Ganges so I can't add much to that I'm afraid. But as far as I know, only ashes are thrown into the Ganges as we burn our dead. The river is definitely dirty though, not just the aforementioned ashes but also from factories that dump chemical waste into it illegally. They don't get prosecuted due to 4.

  2. No that's different. There's no systematic poor treatment of people with dark skin, but I'd say it's like being pale in the Western countries. As in if you are tanned, you have a job that allows you to have the free time to lay about in the sun. In India, if you are pale, you work in an office away from the sun and thus have a high paying job.

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Berzerker_king 1 point ago +2 / -1

How did you get into the "dravidian" and all that bullshit? What kind of marxist shit have you been reading? You sound like the kind of person who also reads the "1619 project" and the "critical race theory" and take it to be the word of God, your bible? Is it?

Like marxists write 1619 and critical race theory and all the bullshit in america, they have been doing in India since much earlier times. The dravidian aryan shit is all bullshit that comes from that. You ought to have known better. You see that happening in America right now, don't you?

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Berzerker_king 1 point ago +2 / -1

It is not a standard practice to throw the dead in the river. Dead bodies do end up in the river but it is not a standard practice as you are making it to be. It is not a standard practice to dump toxic chemicals in drinking water sources, in US or in India, but they do end up there in some cases.

Pretty sure that whatever IQ test you are referring to, is not normalized to take people from the same economic background. For sure if you include starving poor into "average" for IQ while US has none, the actual score would drop down. Statistics are very specific about what they are saying, people just interpret however they want to interpret it.

The hierarchial caste system is kinda like the racial segregation system in US ... illegal and going away with time. India is decades behind the US in terms of education, standard of living, etc. etc. and this is not an exception. As a thumb rule, you can assume that India has as much of "hierarchial caste" system as US had a few decades ago.

The elites, anywhere in the world are doing what they can. US is no exception to that. India is no exception to that.

That being said ... there is no reason why you have such a poor opinion of India. The post itself is not derogatory to America or to Trump. You just found yourself an opportunity to say tangential, unrelated shit and you took that opportunity. Didn't you?