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To: Papillon who wrote (936)	5/28/1998 2:45:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12475

Lies,damned lies and statistics- Another point of view. Papillon and everyone: Do you agree with it or not???? rediff.com

To: Papillon who wrote (936)	5/29/1998 2:56:00 AM
From: Rational	Respond to of 12475

Papillon: You can send an enquiry to the Harvard History Department to get the exact title of the book; or look at the Times of India (last 15 days) to find a reference about the American History Professor who wrote on "How the West Won," which is an approximate title for the book. You are simply too timid to accept the historical fact that the West became rich by killing others. True, the Aryans did fight with the Dravidians, but both Aryans and Dravidians prospered in India. This "battle" was very different from, for example, Europeans coming to America, killing most of the inhabitants and keeping the rest in reservation camps. I would say one thing to you: be very careful to argue or preach sermons from morally wrong grounds. Incidentally, you are a professor (have a Ph.D.) and went to India for 2.5 years. I know many sociology professors visit India to inspect toilet facilities in villages. I was wondering what your mission was. Do you know that an average Indian releases much less pollutants to earth's atmosphere than an average American does? It is a rhetorical question. About the issue of discrimination, Indians did not have to import the concept from the West. Indian society started with a very logical system of division of labor which got distorted over time as a caste system. In my school, I was taught to respect others and learn good habits of even animals. Just think what is going on in the US: it is the murder capital of the world (with the highest per-capita murder rate); it has the highest per capita jail population in the world. Take for example, Washington D.C., with a population of 700,000 and 465 murders every year. Bombay has 15 million people with hardly a dozen murders. Is the quality of life in Bombay worse than that in Washington, D.C.? These vital murder statistics for US are natural because this country has killed more people on earth than any other nation did! You should feel ashamed of these matters when you laugh at India. In 1975, Harvard researchers had published a study to say that India would be a power next only to US and Soviet Union in 40 years. Now you just replace Soviet Union with China and wait 17 more years. India derives its power from sheer intelligence, not from "doles" of the West. You were talking about Korea. Have you estimated their national wealth now? Do you know that Pacific, and SE Asian countries are angry about neo-colonialism? Do you know that prominent economists like the Chief Economist Stiglitz from WB are saying that India's policy of restrictive foreign investment was ideal? Again, these are rhetorical questions. Rational