It is but education is a bit uneven. India is interesting in that some cities are completely first world, then just aways away from that city you'd swear it was a completely different country.
Japan also has mandatory English classes for students. They study the language pretty much throughout grade school. It's tough getting a language down when you only use it for one class in school. You really need to be immersed.
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Yup it is a an official language. But the education system is Shit. The cities are fine,with some big schools covering different aspects important for the development of a child. But once you get to the rural areas, which btw is almost 70% of India is, that's where Shit gets down. No proper amenities, no proper education, etc.. It's tough. But as one of the fastest growing economy we are doing progress.
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Since the rural population or old people have very conservative mindset due to shunning of sexual education, they think western women just go running around naked and showing their naked bodies to everyone. It's a misconception. They think western women are characterless and don't even think about who they're having sex with and would just show their "Bobs and vengana" to anyone. I'm sorry on behalf of them to anyone who has been irritated by them. And despite a huge part of male population being pajeets, not everyone is creepy.
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A couple thoughts come to mind:
-I have a friend from Spain who has been in the US for a few months. She is still completely floored when she meets people in the US who only speak Spanish. She can't wrap her head around living in an English-speaking country without speaking English. (Note: I know that English is not our legal official language, but to many foreigners, that's how it appears.) Maybe there are a lot of foreigners who believe that you should learn a country's language before you go there. It's an attitude distinctly absent from USA culture.
-I recently picked up a history book written by a Pakistani man about Pakistan. It outlines the violent and religious history of the nation, pointing out where those intersect and overlap. That's particularly relevant in Pakistan, where they win independence from India in a bloody separation on religious lines (from what I understand, correct me if I'm wrong, @spookykink57).
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So maybe she wasn't explaining herself to that employee, but to everyone outside of Pakistan, a country that has been embroiled in pro and anti terrorist movements and factions for the past 20-30 years.
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Umm... There was the partition, bit it didn't happened that way. It was very political. A line was just simply drawn and it was Done by the Britishers as from one side they had the pressure from UNO to grant freedom to India and on the other hand the protests here. Also there were two prominent leaders called Jawharlal Nehru and Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Both wanted to be the first Prime Minister of India. Gandhi ruled in the favour of Nehru and that made Jinnah really salty. So he decided that he wanted a separate nation which would would be called Pakistan as in pure land. He is the face on the Pakistani Currency. Now this was also a big pressure on the Britishers as, Jinnah was pressurising for a separate nation. So one day a line was drawn, no studies were done or field research was done, nothing was measured just a line was drawn which is known as The Red Line. So it wasn't brutal. It was extremely political. And yeah people from both countries suffered because of that
Large number of people migrated from and to both the countries. And I can't quite seem to remember the name of the person to whom the work of drawing lines was assigned.
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And there is a general stereotype that Indians and Pakistanis are thirsty for each other's blood. But that's not true, our governments don't have good relations. People love each other. Sure there are some idiots in both countries that belive that every thing the other country's government does is the people's fault. But the people loving each other are far more in numbers
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A minor change. It's called the Radcliffe line and it was assigned to Sir Cyril Radcliffe
Edit: Hope that Helps @unklethan
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Ah. Thanks for explaining. I just read Nehru's book "The Discovery of India", and I may have misread or misunderstood some of the Pakistan issue. It was written a few years before Indian independence, and that surely accounts for some bias that I read in it.
Nehru doesn't seem fond of Pakistan either, but that may just have been that the British were drawing the line to separate Pakistan, and he didn't like the British.
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Nehru and Jinnah. Both were salty. Couldn't stand the sight of each other,because they were rivals. And Nehru wasn't a fan of Pakistan because Jinnah separated a part of India and made it Pakistan just so he can be the First Prime Minister. And I think both were stupid or either Gandhi was. I mean if they sat down and convinced each other or maybe Gandhi made amends between the two and I am sure both of these options were uses, but Alas! A man doesn't listens while in rage, but, if one of them had stepped down then India and Pakistan wouldn't have been separate nations
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It definitely helps.
Thanks for clarifying and correcting my misunderstanding.
I might try to connect with you on the chat with some more questions I have about India if that's cool
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Yeah. Sure. But it's 0:23 here and I gotta wake up early tomorrow as I have a test on Monday and I gotta study for it tomorrow. So right now I am gonna crash. But I will definitely answer them tomorrow.
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Long story short, they didn't get their freedom from India they got it from England, but they're salty because they tried invading a princely state J&K right after independence (which is a beautiful mountainous region) which said they didn't want to part of neither India or pak. So J&K asked help from indian pm Nehru. Nehru said they'll help if J&K became part of India. So J&K had to become a part to avoid loss of life and that became the reason for bloody rivalry between us that still lasts.
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So I was revising for my History test and I came across a detail I forgot to mention here.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah had founded a party called The Muslim League and he wanted separate nation for the Muslims. While Nehru wanted a united India. Although Gandhi implored Indian people to Unite peacefully against the British rule. The Muslim League went ahead and did "Direct Action Day" on August 16th, 1946,resulting in deaths of more than 4000 Hindus and Sikhs in Kolkata. The Hindus replied back with violence the next day and equal number of bodies of Muslims were dropped. In February 1947 British Government announced that India will get freedom by June 1948. Lord Mountbatten, the viceroy for India pleaded both Hindus and Muslims to unite, but they couldn't. Gandhi was in favour of Lord Mountbatten's proposal, but with the country going into more chaos. The independence was moved up and on August 14th, 1947 Pakistan was formed and on August 15th, 1947 India got independence.
Direct Action Day must have happened right after Nehru's book was published. Things were starting to get really tense right around 1945
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I don't know if Nehru's book had anything to do with DAD and I googled it didn't showed any such relation. It can be a coincidence tho. And things started heating up during the later months of 1945
A big reason for Jinnah wanting partition was because of the religious conflict within India. So the partition meant that Pakistan was for the Muslims, so a lot of Muslims migrated to where Pakistan was (East and West) and Hindus were primarily in India. However, there was still further conflict between east and west (probably not a lot to do with religion, as both states were primarily Muslim), this led to further bloodshed and east Pakistan finally got it's independence and became the country called Bangladesh.
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Yup. And the 1971 war between India and Pakistan was regarding the East Pakistan and then when India won. Bangladesh was formed.
I wish people would give the prevalence of terrorism this situation shows of this the same attention they give the racist aspects of this because that's the root of the issue
Where's picture a man in t-shirt "I am not a terrorist" followed by picture of the same man at Islamic state? Thighs like these are sad, bad and angering.
Japan also has mandatory English classes for students. They study the language pretty much throughout grade school. It's tough getting a language down when you only use it for one class in school. You really need to be immersed.
-I have a friend from Spain who has been in the US for a few months. She is still completely floored when she meets people in the US who only speak Spanish. She can't wrap her head around living in an English-speaking country without speaking English. (Note: I know that English is not our legal official language, but to many foreigners, that's how it appears.) Maybe there are a lot of foreigners who believe that you should learn a country's language before you go there. It's an attitude distinctly absent from USA culture.
-I recently picked up a history book written by a Pakistani man about Pakistan. It outlines the violent and religious history of the nation, pointing out where those intersect and overlap. That's particularly relevant in Pakistan, where they win independence from India in a bloody separation on religious lines (from what I understand, correct me if I'm wrong, @spookykink57).
Edit: Hope that Helps @unklethan
Nehru doesn't seem fond of Pakistan either, but that may just have been that the British were drawing the line to separate Pakistan, and he didn't like the British.
Thanks for clarifying and correcting my misunderstanding.
I might try to connect with you on the chat with some more questions I have about India if that's cool
Muhammad Ali Jinnah had founded a party called The Muslim League and he wanted separate nation for the Muslims. While Nehru wanted a united India. Although Gandhi implored Indian people to Unite peacefully against the British rule. The Muslim League went ahead and did "Direct Action Day" on August 16th, 1946,resulting in deaths of more than 4000 Hindus and Sikhs in Kolkata. The Hindus replied back with violence the next day and equal number of bodies of Muslims were dropped. In February 1947 British Government announced that India will get freedom by June 1948. Lord Mountbatten, the viceroy for India pleaded both Hindus and Muslims to unite, but they couldn't. Gandhi was in favour of Lord Mountbatten's proposal, but with the country going into more chaos. The independence was moved up and on August 14th, 1947 Pakistan was formed and on August 15th, 1947 India got independence.
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