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To: arun gera who wrote (97531)	1/6/2013 12:36:41 PM
From: Joseph Silent	Respond to of 218462

This could be VVV at work, or even advanced VVV. :)

To: arun gera who wrote (97531)	1/6/2013 3:16:31 PM
From: Maurice Winn	4 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 218462

< Agreed that a lot of rape cases will not be reported in Delhi, but so is the case anywhere.> No, everywhere is not the same. In Sweden Julian Assange was reported for an absurd "rape". The reporting is a function of the response which is obtained. In Sweden, complaints are taken seriously by police so rape is probably uncommon [other than by Moslems who see infidels as fair game]. But as they pointed out, if such data is not measured, we can draw few conclusions from false figures. There are so many people in India that rape is not a simple matter. Finding a woman alone, with a suitable place available to rape her, is not easy. Judging from the response of half of India to our daughter when we visited 12 years ago, the wish to rape is alive and well, but it's inhibited by various restraints, such as swarms of people everywhere. But in general, India seemed very peaceable, like NZ in the 1950s. Culturally, it felt quite Kiwi from back in the day. I felt more at home there in many ways than in the USA for example. The local papers reported almost no crime. One reported incident was quaint by comparison with the daily horrors now reported in NZ. It felt safe anywhere we went. But there was lots of violent interaction between individuals, with police carrying canes for whacking people to get them to move out of a train station or whatever. <Despite few death penalty cases and limited law and order, Indian cities are still safer than US cities. Explain that!> Better socialisation. Social norms. Also, the USA has a violent gun-toting culture with confrontational attitudes. India has low envy levels. Culturally, acceptance of one's lot is a social norm. The daub of paint on the worry spot is a reminder to not worry. I'm tempted to put one on here, except it would draw attention annoyingly and I'd have to explain why I've got it on. The USA is the only place I have felt so unsafe I took evading action - outside the Greyhound bus terminal in Los Angeles a few months after the Rodney King riots. I walked back inside and caught a secure transport from INSIDE the terminal rather than out on the streets where criminals were lurking as though it was going to be a race to see who could be first to attack me. Elsewhere in the world, I have felt comfortable enough. Just being in India requires high levels of acceptance. Being India means it's part of who you are. Which is not to say it's defeatist or fatalistic. There is nothing nihilistic about India. It's all about survival. Nihilism would be dead in days. The Kantian surrealism so fashionable in the Euro world would likewise not last. Reality is up close and personal in India. Anything does go in India, but it doesn't go very far before it meets reality. if I piled my family on a motor scooter in NZ, without crash helmets, then ignored traffic lights and all road rules, I'd be arrested and imprisoned as a reckless maniac. India is free. The rules of the road are people rules. It's very pleasant to be free. It's madly dangerous in some places, with overtaking manoeuvres as bad as in China. On a bus in China heading north, a few young Americans were shrieking in fear at the over-taking process. Their response was quite funny. One of the strangest places I've seen was a town in Yugoslavia in 1974. I think it was Pristina but it was somewhere about there. It was weird walking around the market and "downtown". Everyone was sort of sullen. Not angry. Just sort of taciturn. No smiling or laughing, chatter or the normal people to people interactions. I had no idea why. It was strange. A couple of decades later I understood, as the carnage of Balkan conflicts rose to the surface. That was the opposite of India. If India had got rid of British socialism and bureaucracy, but kept english, the Queen, law, free currency movement, and government, the Virtuous Victorian Values aspects, with the locals running it like Hong Kong, it could be the best country on Earth. Making roads by hand, breaking individual stones by hand, is not much use. Capitalism and Virtuous Victorian Values need to be turned loose, freed from the cloying kleptocracy keeping India mired in muck. Human and other genetic selection and engineering, combined with Cyberspace, would be a good place to start. ElMatador needs to go and get swarms of people laying fibre everywhere. There is a Globalstar gateway needed - Hyundai was going to do one but it all went wrong for some reason. Globalstar going bust was one aspect. Mqurice