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Three Arrested After Spanish Tourist Gang-raped In India. An average of nearly 90 rapes were reported in India every day in 2022, according to data by the National Crime Records Bureau (www.barrons.com)

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[-] UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Man, India used to be a place of beauty and spirituality. Nowadays it feels like a stain on the human population. Don't get me wrong, I still really love the culture and the food, but there's a lot of societal problems that don't get addressed because of poorer government management.

Edit: lmao I tried giving India the benefit of the doubt

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 27 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Wha-haha?..

That "place of beauty and spirituality" and other hippie perceptions of all those remote countries were and are colonial bullshit. Same as Taro cards, Japanese and Chinese martial arts' popularity, feel free to add anything I forgot.

[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 4 points 8 months ago

Just a heads-up, Tarot cards were invented in Italy, not Asia, Africa or the Middle East.

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 months ago

Another glitch in my memory

[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 4 points 8 months ago

Eh, mystics like to pass them off as crazy fortune telling tools from eastern west egypto-japan-istan, so it's reasonable to believe that's where they're from. The reality is that they're just Italian playing cards.

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago

Well, now I know until I forget.

Me and my sister liked all that mystic\occult stuff when we were kids, for the fun of it, which now feels a bit dangerous since many people on the Web posting about that were absolutely serious.

One could find long texts about identifying vampires around you sucking energy through proximity and all that stuff.

I'd say this worked as a vaccine - too often I meet people discreetly or openly believing in such things, and usually their interests in their childhood were more mundane.

[-] boyi@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 8 months ago

[...] used to be perceived as a place of beauty and spirituality [...]

[-] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 8 months ago

Was it though?

I don't really know anything about India so who knows, maybe you're right and everything there used to be lovely.

Seems more likely that in the past things just weren't reported.

[-] nutsack@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

sexual conservatism

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Man, India used to be a place of beauty and spirituality.

Pakistan being a thing because they thought a nationalist Hindustan was cringe

[-] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 8 months ago

Are you talking about the pre-colonial era? Because it's been the same, probably even worse, since before any of us were alive.

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