YouAreRONGS

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by YouAreRONGS 1y ago
Christians were much more powerful than Hindus though. And the links with the Middle East has given the Muslims a lot of leverage as well. It's likely that with current birth rate trends over the past ten years since the census was tak
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by YouAreRONGS 1y ago
It surprised me that tech companies opted for Silicon Valley style campuses rather than Chinese stytle skyscrapers. It's not feisable to live a Bay Area lifestyle in a city surrounded by mountains like Bengaluru. You would not have to
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by YouAreRONGS 1y ago
It's politically charged to have politically-driven narratives on HN, especially when it has the basis of ethnic politics. This makes it controversial in the first place.
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by YouAreRONGS 1y ago
If you want an alternative view, the state government has to largely spend money on infrastructure and welfare for non-Bengaluru voters who comprise the majority of the population and the vast majority of the land area, so often all the mon
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by YouAreRONGS 1y ago
A lot of the older upper class Hindus in India do actually act like that. And it's also quite common in Sri Lanka and South East Asia for the upper class to do that.
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by YouAreRONGS 1y ago
Is that really anti-intellectualism? Do you have any examples?
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by YouAreRONGS 1y ago
I question why it's on the front page as well even though I'm Tamil. Kerala is by no-means unique in India. It's controversial because the state is communist and majority Christian/Muslim, on top of being one of the thor
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by YouAreRONGS 1y ago
> Many people think of North Indians as the de-facto "business" class in India, It's not "North Indians" that people think of but rather "West Indians". Virtually all of the states along the western coa
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by YouAreRONGS 1y ago
Is that because of the communist government, or simply because the state has a lot of money from the Middle East?
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by YouAreRONGS 1y ago
Comparitively there are far more North Indians, Kannadians and Tamils in the IT world. The bias in much of western media is largely driven by White-Muslim politics in places like Europe, which in turn is driven by corruption from the far-le
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by YouAreRONGS 1y ago
I blame a lot of the cesspoll nature of Bengaluru on over-obsession with living a Silicon Valley lifestlye in the middle of a very dense city. Bengalurians should have been copying East Asian lifestyles where cities which have ancient dense
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by YouAreRONGS 1y ago
It's also commonplace in traditional Buddhist and Hindu cultures, especially a lot of the older upper class in India are obsessed with following Gandhi-like living too. You still find it in many Buddhist countries like Sri Lanka and So
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by YouAreRONGS 1y ago
> It's unfortunate that a lot of narratives about India are driven by the North. The South is way more interesting, in my opinion (I'm biased). It's not from North India though. North India is not on the land-based trade r
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by YouAreRONGS 1y ago
Literacy is a by-product of raising living standards. It's not inherintly something that will alone lead to higher living standards.
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by YouAreRONGS 1y ago
You've also got the mess in Tamil Nadu as well. Despite having two left-wing parties, it's still got one party that Hindus vote for, and another party that Muslims/Christians vote for.
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by YouAreRONGS 1y ago
I think the main point of the opposition argument is that it's Kerala's religious demographics that led the state to be dependent on Middle Eastern remmitence. If you did a demographic survey of South Asians in the Middle East, th
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by YouAreRONGS 1y ago
The main reason is probably because it is a small state with a majority Christian/Muslim population who work in the Middle East. It allows the state to get to a higher lower income level quickly. But there's very little in terms o