China acknowledged that they have issues and worked to solve them. Indian culture is thinking everything about India is already the best. broken roads with nobody following traffic laws, no lanes, people driving in the wrong direction, no helmets, driving on foothpath..all is normalised. inferior and cumbersome solutions in the name of "homegrown" alternatives? don't worry we'll say it's better than western and Chinese solutions. Pollution in cities? we'll just ignore it and call people who try to talk about it weak!
It is, because they place being the "best" in metaphysical and unquantifiable attributes. Just like how American evangelicals pride themselves in being virtuous when their entire religious beliefs is Sola scriptura (aka deliberately misinterpreting the Bible)
I think this “only we are us” attitude is deeply embedded in a lot of cultures. If you think back to a time when the world was larger, a person from the other side of the planet was, then, like an alien from another planet would be to us today: strange, from a faraway place that can barely be understood, totally unlike everyone you know. I think people had a hard time seeing someone so alien as even a human being. To this day it lingers as racism, even very modest forms of it, like thinking immigrants from other countries and people are “all well and good, but not real Americans.”
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u/rohmish 4d ago
China acknowledged that they have issues and worked to solve them. Indian culture is thinking everything about India is already the best. broken roads with nobody following traffic laws, no lanes, people driving in the wrong direction, no helmets, driving on foothpath..all is normalised. inferior and cumbersome solutions in the name of "homegrown" alternatives? don't worry we'll say it's better than western and Chinese solutions. Pollution in cities? we'll just ignore it and call people who try to talk about it weak!