Why cant we accept the truth........

Originally posted by: tina59

Why cant we Indians accept the fact that countries like the USA are def better than us and are far more developed than us.

hmmm, sounds like an opinion to me

we always boast abt our culture and tradition, but isnt this the same culture and tradition that are preventing us from development.

What gives you this impression? so the growth we have had is against the culture, tradition you mean?

People are so fixated in traditions and culture that they forget abt basic development of both the society and the nation as a whole.

I think India has developed as a society and will grow just like other societies, every society has different circumstances to growth with, not everyone has to deal with the same path

We have innumerable riots over religion, caste, culture, rituals that one cant even think abt progression and then we rubbish other countries like USA when they achieve something.

that is human nature, that is not a speciality only granted to humans in India😉

Like I read so many comments where people were angry that indian media covered news abt the US elections and our country's elections wouldnt get a mention in their papers, TRUE but the fact is, US is the superpower of the world and our country isnt.

Well lets see, there are some in our country who beleive everything they see to the west of them is good and good for the whole world. In fact we in India should be rejoicing, US has taken a step that we have been doing for a while, elect someone as a symbol and then pat ourselves in the back for that

We have corruption(in US they call it as lobbying), lack of publ;ic discipline, lack of civis sense, poor infrastructure, poor development all around.(in US they call it entitlement mentality). Interesting you should mention about poor development of infrastructure, Tom Friedman is complaining about the same citing China and India as an example(Infrastructure can be of roads or be people)

See there is no problem accepting the truth, infortunately truth most of the times changes depending on which side of the wall you are on. FACTS are indisputable, truth isn't😉

Politicians have no vision for the future, all they care abt is holding their seats, 40+ year old politician cant even imagine being the PM of our country coz here politics is all abt aging and power.funny you mention, there are some who are just itching to put a 38 year old with the last name of Gandhi to be the PM and he can certainly become one, the next election given the mindset

I know the moment someone mentions all these flaws, especially an NRI ( I am one too), the next comments " criticising us for sitting outside our country enjoying a "better life" and findind faults" The most common I have heard is defination of better life changes from person to person, so what is good for you may not be good to someone else

But isnt this a fact , can u blame the NRI's for moving abroad. Tell me when ur own country doesnt give u the respect u deserve, doesnt give u the opportunities that u deserve, doesnt give u the quality of life that u yearn and strive for,

so you run away from the fight

and if he/she gets the same from another country even though he/ she is not a citizen , would u blame them for going for it.

India is a highly competitive country, for the same skillset if you find 10 people in US(8 being desi's), you will find 1000 in India, so it is difficult to get respect when you are one in thousand as compared to one in 10

We are so focussed on following culture and criticising others for the lack of it but honestly is culture more important than development of the nation ?

hmmm we all like to criticize each other😆, that is one of our Indian traits

What I am trying to say is that , why cant we accept the truth that we are not developing, that many other countries are better than us, we have a lot of flaws and our country isnt going in the right way , that we go on the defensive whenever someone points these flaws.

I think Indian culture is the best, we are so overwelcoming to others, we have welcome people for 2000 years and learnt from them, sometimes even accepted something they do to be the best and discarded what we have.

see I am giving you concrete example here. We have a beautiful language Sanskrit, but we decided hey English is the universal language, we wont really make it our first language, but we will make all of our education available in that language, that is changing with times, we have done that for centuries as a country

Nobody is perfect, but accept the fact that we are good with some deficienaces, fix them, and maintain some self esteem😉

Originally posted by: chal_phek_mat

Originally posted by: tina59

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Abt Rahul Gandhi being elected, do u honestly think politicians like laloo, mayawati, and thousand other parties would allow an educated young individual to become the next PM.

Originally posted by: tina59

Good points

Abt Rahul Gandhi being elected, do u honestly think politicians like laloo, mayawati, and thousand other parties would allow an educated young individual to become the next PM. Unless a party gets a clear majority , its again going to be 10-15 parties forming an alliance and then each one tries to become the PM.

sure they will whatever Sonia says they will do as long as they get their plum assignments and the corresponding plum revenue streams out of them

Barack Obama wasnt elected bcoz of his race but bcoz he was the right condidate amongst the two as per many, they wanted change and felt he could do it.

Barack Obama was elected for many reasons and one of the many reasons was race, another was the dislike for what the last 8 years stood for and a lot more like these. Every politician offers change from the current establishment to get elected, everyone uses that trick what makes it successful is how bad was the past period. Bush offered change in the moral climate from the Clinton/Monika era and he won based upon it

We again refuse to accept the FACT that we lack development and give way too importance to matters other than development and focus too much defending it .

I dont think anyone is refusing the FACT that we lack development certainly not Indians and/or NRI's. As I said everyone needs a development that doesnt mean it is at the cost of the culture, you can work around it. If one doesnt the development project is going to hit a roadblock and that is perfectly find. Every country has those kind of roadblocks due to different reasons. In India to blow away a historic underwater bridge for infrastructure development is going to hit a roadblock b'cos of sentimental value, but building a nuclear powerplant wont hit as big of a roadblock

In US there wont be a resistance to that kind of a bridge b'cos there are hardly any such sentimental value, (however a lot of these objects are cash cows for the tourism department, so they might hit roadblocks there) but a project of Nuclear power plant will hit a roadblock

See different set of culture, different set of apprehensions and you have to pay heed to those apprehensions to get things done in those representative cultures

People who have seen both sides, know and accept that we lag behind and theres no point defending it coz we dont have much points to defend abt.

And people who see both sides of this, know the difference and similar results due to it