• UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world
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      4 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.

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        4 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.

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        4 months ago

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

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        4 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.

      • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        4 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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        4 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