On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Sirtaj Singh Kang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> - There is a wide range of bands of thought if sampled across the > population of India, but a given Indian person chooses far too few. You really think so? Relative to what - the world wide range of thought? I think that in general Indian cultural thinking is both less liberal at the more liberal extreme (say relative to Scandanavian countries) and less conservative at the more conservative extreme (say relative to the most conservative Arabic sheikdoms). If you want to rank India relative to other indvidual countries in terms of diversity of thought I'd personally rate it relatively high in homogeneity. There are certainly outliers, but in general I'd say that Indian society was relatively homogenous in attitude. Just for one example take Indian attitudes toward arranged marriage. -- Charles
