On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Charles Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 moast 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.
One look at this amazing mess that we call multi-party democracy (which seems to work for some definition of "work"). I nod my head sideways and say no :-) We are more diverse than whole of Europe (tall claim that ?). Anyone who has travelled widely over India will agree with this fact. In this nation called India is just a artifact left by British rule. We should have been badly balkanized but we aren't (or atleast not there yet). -- Vinayak
