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This is quite the story. The author has a very low opinion of his fellow Indians. I copied the opening paragraphs here. The article is quite a bit longer. It was taken from a speech by the author. You can listen to it here.
India: It’s Worse Than You Think by Jayant BhandariMost Westerners know nothing about India beyond vague ideas about Hinduism, yoga, gurus, and maybe a dash of Bollywood. To such people, this article will be a rude awakening.I grew up in Bhopal in central India. Since as early as I can remember, I worked in my father’s printing press. I studied engineering in the nearby city in Indore and went to Manchester Business School in Britain to do an MBA. I returned to India to set up a subsidiary of a British company, which was a huge success. When I lived in Delhi, I wrote for the mainstream Indian media. I traveled widely in India and around the world.I had first returned to India with the idea of improving it, but after 11 years, I realized that India was a sinking ship, with worsening and increasingly shameless corruption, degraded people, and a society that was falling apart. I had never met an honest bureaucrat or politician. I applied to emigrate to Canada and my application was approved in a record three weeks.I now advise East Asian and Western corporations on investing in India. Most of what I tell them sounds to them exaggerated, unrealistic, and unbelievable. After much dance, drama, and a great deal of lost money, they begin to believe what I tell them. However, this learning is never institutionalized because of a refusal to understand India. This is a form of political correctness, a poison eating away the innards of Western values.
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I read the whole article and the comments. The fundamental thinking and the behavior resulting from it describes the behavior I see cropping up more and more around the US. Oh there were always some hooray-for-me-fuck-thee types but they were few enough that you'd remember each one you encountered and often tell friends about your experience. You know, the "You wouldn't believe this guy at the....", stories. But that type seems to have multiplied exponentially. I keep hoping it was the lying bullshit from the political campaigns that brought them out of the sewers but that maybe be wishful thinking.
xoxoxoBruce
Thank you Bruce. I never know if anybody reads any of what I post but now I know that at least one person did.
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