Re:The Day I Got My Green Card
by Ar-Curunir on Sunday July 03, 2016 @12:46PM
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A notable increase does not imply a large amount of violence. And personally I doubt that India had less sectarian violence in the past; it was just covered less dramatically.
Re:The Day I Got My Green Card
by intopieces on Sunday July 03, 2016 @06:37PM
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Truly, you and I operate with different definitions of "peaceful coexistence" if yours has room for tribal discrimination and sectarian violence.
I agree there, and lacking any concrete data, it's better to not pass off opinion or speculation as fact.
For quite a lot of the sectarian violence, I blame the government and the political parties for having policies that favour some castes over others, and for being soft on sectarian violence. Moreover we, in the middle class, who lead lives far away from politics, are largely isolated from these shenanigans.
"India, one of the most diverse countries in the world with a population of 1.3 billion, experiences severe caste and tribal discrimination, and in recent decades has seen a notable increase in sectarian violence."
Bettye Miller's piece on Ajay Verghese, author of The Colonial Origins of Ethnic Violence in India (2016) [0]
[0]https://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/37140