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Because India. [Edit] Thanks for the comments, in now way is this meant prejudiced and derogatory, I have worked with many excellent Indian colleagues. The co

Because India. [Edit] Thanks for the comments, in now way is this meant prejudiced and derogatory, I have worked with many excellent Indian colleagues. The country normally associated with Chess is Russia, lately India got a huge wave of great talents like Vidit Gujrathi or Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa.

Markoff 5y ago
What? I thought it's pretty common knowledge chess is very popular in India. Which is why they are in 5th place in world. https://ratings.fide.com/top_federations.phtml https://ratings.fide.com/top_federations.phtml
DrBenCarson 5y ago
I’ll go out of my way and assume you don’t mean to be prejudiced or derogatory. In return, I ask that you understand that your phrasing is prejudiced and derogatory.
yumraj 5y ago
> Because India. Do you have something against India or Indians? That too a 16 year old Indian kid.. Hopefully that is not part of your CTO coaching..
- hackinthebochs 5y ago
  It's well known that Indians will absolutely swarm any content about India put on the internet. I follow multiple youtubers that randomly see 10x their usual traffic on a video that happens to be about India in some way.
  - mkl95 5y ago
    This is a well known phenomenon. IMDb (Internet Movie Database) added a Top Rated Indian Movies page* because tons of users rate virtually every Indian movie 10/10. * https://www.imdb.com/india/top-rated-indian-movies/ https://www.imdb.com/india/top-rated-indian-movies/
  - deleted 5y ago
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  - ngc248 5y ago
    And whats wrong with that? seriously asking.
    - lmm 5y ago
      Nothing wrong with it, but it distorts popularity metrics for India-related content.
      - yunohn 5y ago
        The USA’s disparate influence on global culture is so strong, yet we don’t say the popularity metrics are distorted for American content. Odd phrasing IMHO
        usrbinbash 5y ago
        There is a difference between production and distribution, and simply generating lots of feedback.
        ngc248 5y ago
        What does this even mean?
        yunohn 5y ago
        Yes, well that’s your opinion. Maybe justify/source it if you want to make sweeping generalisations of countries?
      - ngc248 5y ago
        Youtubers basically get more views by Indians on India related content. Is that such a bad thing? i mean it has India related content.
        yunohn 5y ago
        I think their dissonance comes from seeing Western culture as the default. Indian content is seen as unusual, and evokes strong other-ism.
  - yumraj 5y ago
    You do realize the India has 1.4B+ population.. So, even a small percentage is huge in absolute terms...
  - 2143 5y ago
    > Indians will absolutely swarm any content about India put on the internet. And because of the large population, even a small percentage would still be a large number. But individual Indians do that on their own independent will though. There's no central authority that declares to Indians "Ooh here's a new content about India. Go go go!"
    - known 5y ago
- KingOfCoders 5y ago
  Thanks for the comment, in no way is this meant prejudiced and derogatory, I have worked with many excellent Indian colleagues.

Markoff 5y ago

What? I thought it's pretty common knowledge chess is very popular in India. Which is why they are in 5th place in world. https://ratings.fide.com/top_federations.phtml https://ratings.fide.com/top_federations.phtml

DrBenCarson 5y ago

I’ll go out of my way and assume you don’t mean to be prejudiced or derogatory. In return, I ask that you understand that your phrasing is prejudiced and derogatory.

yumraj 5y ago

> Because India. Do you have something against India or Indians? That too a 16 year old Indian kid.. Hopefully that is not part of your CTO coaching..

hackinthebochs 5y ago
It's well known that Indians will absolutely swarm any content about India put on the internet. I follow multiple youtubers that randomly see 10x their usual traffic on a video that happens to be about India in some way.
- mkl95 5y ago
  This is a well known phenomenon. IMDb (Internet Movie Database) added a Top Rated Indian Movies page* because tons of users rate virtually every Indian movie 10/10. * https://www.imdb.com/india/top-rated-indian-movies/ https://www.imdb.com/india/top-rated-indian-movies/
- deleted 5y ago
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- ngc248 5y ago
  And whats wrong with that? seriously asking.
  - lmm 5y ago
    Nothing wrong with it, but it distorts popularity metrics for India-related content.
    - yunohn 5y ago
      The USA’s disparate influence on global culture is so strong, yet we don’t say the popularity metrics are distorted for American content. Odd phrasing IMHO
      - usrbinbash 5y ago
        There is a difference between production and distribution, and simply generating lots of feedback.
        ngc248 5y ago
        What does this even mean?
        yunohn 5y ago
        Yes, well that’s your opinion. Maybe justify/source it if you want to make sweeping generalisations of countries?
    - ngc248 5y ago
      Youtubers basically get more views by Indians on India related content. Is that such a bad thing? i mean it has India related content.
      - yunohn 5y ago
        I think their dissonance comes from seeing Western culture as the default. Indian content is seen as unusual, and evokes strong other-ism.
- yumraj 5y ago
  You do realize the India has 1.4B+ population.. So, even a small percentage is huge in absolute terms...
- 2143 5y ago
  > Indians will absolutely swarm any content about India put on the internet. And because of the large population, even a small percentage would still be a large number. But individual Indians do that on their own independent will though. There's no central authority that declares to Indians "Ooh here's a new content about India. Go go go!"
  - known 5y ago
KingOfCoders 5y ago
Thanks for the comment, in no way is this meant prejudiced and derogatory, I have worked with many excellent Indian colleagues.