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"India is so large that trying to claim that "India is like this" or "India is like that" seems futile" Out of curiosity, which country is small enough to be a
by dudul 11y ago
"India is so large that trying to claim that "India is like this" or "India is like that" seems futile"
Out of curiosity, which country is small enough to be able to say "Foo is like this" "Foo is like that"? Brazil? Italy? Switzerland? What's the right size to be able to qualify a country with one sentence?
- arjie 11y agoSolid point. It's homogeneity vs. heterogeneity that matters, rather than the size. And being heterogeneous in one respect doesn't guarantee heterogeneity in others. For instance, America is a large country, and has people who live all sorts of lives. And yet when asked whether women have the same rights as men, the responses are incredibly homogeneous. On the other hand, opinions about whether abortion is morally acceptable are significantly different between urban (and suburban) populations and rural populations. America is large. And you can very well claim that Americans believe men and women should be treated equally. No futility there. And India is no different. There are issues with opinions which have broad appeal there and issues on which opinion is divided. Nothing is served by pretending that some group of individuals is so diverse that there is no issue on which they overwhelmingly favour one opinion. That's rarely (if ever) true.
- nine_k 11y agoVatican? San Marino? Andorra?
- dudul 11y agoAre you completing my list or answering and saying that everybody in Vatican/San Marino/Andorra is the same, and that it is acceptable for example to say "everybody in Andorra is nice", or "everybody in San Marino likes gold"?
- pavanky 11y agoThere are plenty of small countries with populations smaller than medium sized cities. But that's besides the point. People here don't use the same brush to paint the entirety of US (or Europe), but they openly do so for many larger developing countries.
- pj_mukh 11y agoIndia = Europe. Literally. Parts of India are as disparate as England and Italy. Misogyny, direct and indirect, though is fairly consistent.