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Have you ever visited India or lived there for a long period of time? I am not just parroting talking points from major newspaper. I have visited and lived both
by pavs 14y ago
Have you ever visited India or lived there for a long period of time? I am not just parroting talking points from major newspaper. I have visited and lived both in China and India in several cities for reasonable amount of time. While China is no beacon of civil rights and other things most people in western civilization takes for granted; they are still far ahead of India IMHO YMMV.
- gnufied 14y agoYou have setup a straw man here, I hope you realize that. I have never been to China but I will accept that living conditions there - are better than India. However, we _are_ somewhat proud of our democracy (even though we hate it most of the time) and compared to China human rights situation and freedom of speech is more respected in India. Yes, you can pick few cases where - some right wing idiots pulled a stunt here and there but those things were criticized by everyone and afaik govt. and police does seem to work to protect that freedom.
- PakG1 14y agoI think you somehow didn't take the left turn at Albuquerque. My statement was: Don't put the blanket statement out there. Your blanket statement was: I have found that there are two things you can never reason with, religion and nationalism. I wasn't responding to your comparison of India and China, I was responding to your blanket statement. I gave an example of how your blanket statement is not so universal, drawing an easy example a country in your discussion topic. I have nothing to add to the discussion on comparing China and India, as I feel that's been discussed comprehensively enough.