India; The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (Part 2 of 3)

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Comment by arjen on February 18, 2009 at 11:15am

you can try and catch up with the western world.....as all third world countried try to do..even though a third world country was in reality a producy of colonial rule divide and conquer, taking away vasts amounts of gold and wealth which made india at that time 18th centuty the richest place on earth...conincendently when they left it eas the poorest place on earth. So modern india has alot truths to uncover. in a country where the rich poor divide is most apparent where 80% of the poor are controlled by the remaining 20 % wealthy. SO therefore theire live style and choices are reinforced bytheir way of life..for example a rich would want to eb assoicated with luxuries from all over the world, embrace pub culutre, drinking goin to clubs, so the rich reside in the same envirmonts all rich people do. Then the question is do these 20% rich people who own and control 90% of indias wealth, control india morals and future. Do these rich classes who align themselves with western values, having lived in that enviroment, do they represent he best for the whole of india. While the rich are campaiing for society in which religon and morals play little part to make way for a complete capitalist society in which the rich live out happy lives and the poor never being able to work out of poverty, drink and pub culture eroding their life as a means of espace from the poverty, therfore draggin them down further and futher. So my question is it not the riches responsilbity to maintian those morals and guidelines which they expect and give to theri own clases to filter down to the poor. As the rich in india learn englishg and western ways the poor will reamin deeply rooted to faith as the only outlet. Therfore by apeasing to the rich ...society will in the end suffer the most, where monney is not being invested in to poor, whre commerialsim and capitlism will make ppl decide on their own happiness of others. most will choose their own. So why our poor children who cant eat, sleep get eduucated, go to clubs and pubs, they will watch ppl of their own race...the rich classes, will use and abuse them, and then play and frolick in front of them...the capitalist soiecty is not one of cohesion, longing and love...it is what is happening in india. the divide. the right. but no responsibilty.

Comment by Val Cavalheri on February 16, 2009 at 12:05pm

It's amazing the culture shock that we all experience when traveling to other countries. The types of things we take for granted. Even when I go back to Brazil, a country I know well, it's easy to find fault with how things are done and how I feel we do it better here in the States. I suppose that this is also adds to the problem in how other countries see us as being cocky and acting superior. I wish I knew how to solve that dilemma in my own mind.

Comment by Murat on February 16, 2009 at 11:39am

Tracey,

From what I see on TV about Haiti, they seem to be doing much worse. India has the largest middle class in the world with 200 million people. Problem is that it is a small portion of the 1 billion total population.

Comment by TraceyParent on February 16, 2009 at 11:29am

reminds me of Haiti, except I do not feel the same hope fro Haiti as you do for India. Very sad.