I am an Indian and I hate to admit this.

Don't forget Fascism based on religion.

I think I missed the "mysticism and spirituality" period. Twenty years ago I knew India for cows, castes, and crap in the rivers.

Idk how the general public viewed India 40 years ago, but from my vague understanding of their modern history they've always been known for a cruel caste system resulting in poverty and disease, which was massaged by the English introducing more widespread transportation and education but castes and disparity still persists after several revolutions. Don't get me wrong, the English were cruel and apathetic, but clearly the locals learned a lot from them in good and bad ways both.

I recently learned about CPI parties of India but they also ingrain religion into their politics? That sounds like one step forward two steps back. I'd love to see more Indian politics and international news in the news and politics communities on Lemmy, sounds like a lot is going on over there and I'm getting real sick of hearing about Taylor Swift's jet and Biden's Cookies.

Oh and also, skin whitening cream is pretty fucked imo. I saw a story awhile back where a famous light skinned actress played an ethnic minority role where they blackfaced and lived in filth, clearly something is wrong there.

On the bright side, you need a tech tutorial, they've got your back.

Don't forget scammers!

Germany f*d up so bad we're still using them as a meme after most of a century. Never go full Germany.

I guess Germany after the 30's (and maybe even after 1919), France after the whole Revolution and Napoleon thing, the UK after voting to KEKW their economy, Norway after being ruled by Sweden... The list probably goes on

This is insanely relevant to me right now. I left India in 2004 and I am there right now for my cousins wedding. I legit hate it everywhere I look. Love my family, but idk if I want to come back.

Also the land of abhorrent javascript horrors.

4chan is gonna know the world through the perspective of an average 4chan user.

mysticism and spirituality

You mean scammers like Sadhguru and Deepak Chopra?

Thought to myself "San Francisco isnt a country"

Never forget the Designated Shitting Streets

To be frank, google's reputation fall pretty significantly in the last 25 years.

Good luck with this post OP lmao

edit: Did way better than I expected. Maybe I think too poorly of Lemmings

Yeah things are pretty bad here. People lack even basic civic sense. I've always felt like an outsider.

I hope Bloodywood manages to stop every rapist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a65A626Ed20&t=0

Superpower by 2020

To be fair, no one believes in Mysticism anymore...

I kinda feel the opposite. Seen as some backwater third world country 30 years ago, to the most populous country in the world, a democracy aligned to its own goals forming a third pole in the global order apart from the US and Russia/China.

Even their reputation as scammers comes from the insane growth of English-language tech work that is now focused in India.

That reminds me... I have to try Indian food sometime. It looks good, but I like to try food made by someone who knows what they're doing before making it myself, so I can tell if I did a good job or not and there aren't many Indian places 'round here.

Went from delusional to schizophrenic.

That's what colonialism does to one

Internet exposed that every or almost every country is a class system with pedo rapists in charge.

The shit river is a cherry but all countries are a shit pie.

In southern US there people without plumbing or other towns have poluted water piped to low peasants.

So rich, so powerful....

UK: hold my beer...

I mean it took India two decades, and even then it isn't all of their reputation. It took Israel 4 months.

So we switched from exotic fetichizing orientalism toward casual racism? Sounds like two pieces of the same coin.

With the exception of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Islam is currently responsible for a majority of the war happening in the world and has been for the last two decades.

The world would be a better place without Islam.