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It is not one homogenous people, there are overarching similarities. Unfortunately, with more of the good people moving out, this wont stay the same forever. In India you get a lot of inconsistency in justice for these things. You even had politicians make statements that boys will be boys and the girl was asking for it, dismal.
Note that you are citing a politician who is widely criticized for opposing the death penalty for rape due to concerns over false accusations. "Boys will be boys" is not a reasonable English translation of his comment, but Indian media is just as biased as western.
The median rapist in the US serves 4.2 years and US leftists think this is too long.
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/03/how-much-time-do-criminals-really-serve.html
India has many issues, but it isn't Pakistan by a long shot - although UP (where Mulayam is from) is of course one of the more Pakistan-like places.
As it relates to recent discussions more relevant here: the Indians going to Britain and America are Tamil and Bengali Brahmins.
The table shows that "Rape/sexual assault" has a median of 4.2 years before first release, which is the second-longest (shorter than murder by a lot, longer than negligent homicide by a little). However, not all of that is rape. Some sexual assault is just rape by another name, but "sexual assault" also includes lesser offenses such as groping.
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No, Indians in the US are mostly Telugus who scam the most, gujratis and punjabis in canada, punjabis in the uk again but they are pakistanis but they are not brahmins or even upper caste mostly. This is simply not true as the three states I mentioned are mostly middle caste states.
India is inherently an unsafe place for women, period, people here are very creepy, I do not self identify with them and that is for a good reason. Most rapes here go unreported.
Yes, it despite all its issues is way safer than its neighbors, you can see girls in thongs in goa, cannot imagine that anywhere else in the subcontinent. Still, it is inherently a bad place for women, most of the biocapital here is bottom of the barrel. Some parts of SEA are safer than europe now for women simply because they do not have an influx of people overrepresented in crime statistics.
yes, but Muslim ghettos here are basically secluded zones so they are not far off, this goes for any and all places. Tamil Nadu and Bengal have a worse future than UP. UP has a sizeable upper caste population, more Tamil Brahmins exist outside of Tamil Nadu, Bengal will have more muslims than Hindus by the turn of the century and the upper castes (kayasthas and brahmins) have already started packing thier bags.
He was a terrible person by all accounts, got kar sevaks punished for the Ram Mandir, comes form a middle caste that wrecked havoc in Bihar, did the same in UP after their failed Sanskritization comments and made even worse remarks on camera.
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