Redditor desperately trying not to use “savage”
Redditor desperately trying not to use “savage”
Redditor desperately trying not to use “savage”
interior factors
If they say it's not a systemic cause, an external cause, they're being racist. Because the only option left is "internal", there being something inherently wrong with the group of people they're talking about.
Economic or societal factor are a thing and would be internal. It doesn't have to be about race...
Doesn't have to be, but in this case it absolutely is. I grew up hearing enough screeds about those people and their toxic violent culture to recognize the language racists use when they want to be a littlle bit deniable.
So easily could've just left the first paragraph out lol
When you use so many micro aggressions in one post that it becomes macro aggression
I'm just so tired of hearing how every corner of the earth in some kind of abnormally high crime wave.
India's in a crime wave. London is in a crime wave. Peoria, Illinois is in a crime wave. I am once again begging to live in the world these people think we live in, where everyone has an utter contempt for civil law and they're all doing crimes all the time with impunity.
"Indoctrinated by Modi"
Don't you idiots cheer on Modi? Or do you deep down realize that you're the real savages when you see non-whites sometimes act like you?
wait what's going on in india?
This is the thread (CW: death): https://old.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/17fqiur/another_bridge_fall_in_india_gujarat_october_2023/
I mean, Modi isn't helping, but it's not like he cast a spell on the population to make so many of them Hindu Nationalists, or is singularly a bigger influence than colonization was.
1 politician significant for the past ~20 years or the traumatic destruction of a country arbitrarily divided into three by the British as punishment for independence, i wonder what could have greater consequences for nationalist movements on the indian subcontinent
It's a capitalist developing country, and shares exactly the same problems all the other capitalist developing countries share.
It starting in the same place, with the same population and the same level of development as China, and unlike all the other communists in the world China's growth was unchecked thanks to Deng. The difference between communist development and capitalist development is laid bare by the difference between the two.
pure projection
Understatement of the century.
It's interesting to compare India and China since both have huge populations and gained independence at the same time. Personally, I really do think it comes down to governance and central planning, where the dictatorship of the proletariat and central planning is more suitable to developing a large semi-feudal state than liberal democratic squabbling.
Literacy programs. Mao's literacy programs meant that the Chinese peasantry were able to take on new roles in a developing nation. It's not that everyone in China went on to become a brain surgeon but the ability to recieve and obey written instructions makes people far more productive
India's caste system means there was never as much interest in making some people literate and the country paid for that. There are parts of India that were ran by Maoists at the time of Mao's literacy programs and they are considerably better off
In some ways yes, but China managing to hold on to nominal independence and partially modernise in the late 19th century/early 20th century helped, compared to India which was forcibly de-industrialised. Having all your machines carted to England and your skilled tradesmen and artisans reduced to serfdom for 150 years is a hell of a setback. One that even the chaos of the Opium Wars, Collapse, and the Warlord era can't quite match.
China murdering the landowners rather than paying them off also helped.
Not sure if the colonial occupation of India is quite comparable to the carnage China saw in the first half of the 20th century. The boxer Rebellion, three revolutions, the warlord era and Japanese genocide during WWII and then the violence of the civil war afterwards.
India had repeated famines sure, but I don't really think you can argue they were worse off than China at the time of independence.
No shortage of dead landlords in India, depending on when and where you were standing. But the Mao/Deng/Hu/Xi era has cultivated a very different kind of domestic self-sufficiency than the modern Modi state that simply exists to serve Western interests.
i'd say the level of 'modernization' in China would've been a rough parity or even less than India overall. in both cases most the rail was built to serve imperial interests, like the most developed system in Manchuria---but China had 27k km of lines in 1945 vs. probably a bit less than 77k in india (when they reorganized it in 1951, can't find earlier overall figures). i'd say most of the progress from the late Qing was more-or-less erased in the warlord era & japanese invasion
i mean it was to the point colonial-developed Manchuria is seen as a big advantage for the Communists to acquire (which btw the Soviets didn't "hand over", i don't know who started that myth the GMT occupied most of it but lost it in early fighting)