Is india a biased nation?

Answer 1

Prologue:
We take pride in telling that we're united to outsiders but not quite so in reality. Marriages still take place predominantely inside one's caste creed etc. People show comtempt toward a section below them and envy those above them. The North East people prefer to come to Hyderabad (where I live) and Bangalore to study and not to Delhi/Mumbai etc because they say they're discriminated. People there call them 'ching chang choo'. It hurts them. Fair Mumbaikars call Dark skinned south indians as 'Madrasis'. Muslims have their own personal law and dont share the Justice system as everyone else does. Anglo Indians Identify themselves more with the English than the Indians. Shameful though but my own Telugu people fight among themselves for regions, water sharing, state economy, government jobs (I'm talking about the Andhra-Telangana dispute). The list goes on.
Hang on Hang on......not so serious.....
Parts belong to a question I already answered to another person,who asked much of the same question. I do not want you to derive anything that alters your contention for or against the motion, though. The following are freshly thought:
Okay so that was the prologue, lets get into Act1Sc1:

Calling India Biased is a very composite judgement. Talking of bias, should be done in the following spheres: Gender Bias ; Caste/Creed/Faith bias ; Age bias ; Professional bias. India is a vastely modulated country. If you ask me to cut this short, "India is not a biased nation." There, I see that frown...read on..

Gender Bias: Well, Taken. India has had a track record of "being not so nice" to its women. Pt. Nehru in "The Discovery of India" does mention that it had been in India's roots that women stay indoors, don't get educated, have no say in family affairs,, eventually reducing them to "organisms that prepare food and produce off-springs" or "chattels" in Nehru's words. But it was during India's freedom struggle that women participated in numbers on par with men, to "shoo" off the Brits. We have had episodes like women burning "Made in UK" clothes etc. Who can forget Manu and Abha, Gandhi's "left hand' and "right hand" quite literally. You see, this was when the Indian woman stood up, began to identify herself to be a part of this nation, the "superstructure", Nehru's favourite word. ">>Fast Forword>> !Stop! >Play>" Year 2007. Is there a gender bias? Yeah Right! My class has 60% girls. Girls top CBSE, ISC/ICSE (which I wrote), PMT and pretty-much every competitive exam. Sure men are smarter than them but they outnumber us. IT firms, BPO companies, or even corporate hospitals recruit women without bias. 80% of Teachers, Lecturers, Professors are women. What're men left to do? the peon's job of ringing the bell, majdoors, tough professional jobs etc. Agreed that a majority of the MPs and MLAs are men but ultimately the creature that runs the whole country is a female....You guessed it....Sonia Gandhi.

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Caste/Creed/Faith bias: Let me choose words here. Lest I be kicked out of Yahoo! "Indians" living in the US boast of "Yeah our cities are organised, well planned, we live together......blah". The truth is that American cities ironically are modulated much like Indian ones,like "Jacksonville in NewJersey" is flodded with Indians, "Nashville in Tennehass....." "Palm beach in FL'' the list goes on... Same here. You have a part of your city that has muslims living (Like Old cy and Hafeezpet in Hyd), while a part of your city is leaking Marwadis, another with Sindhis, some with Anglos, the list goes on. We all live merrily. Now, the problem crops up when, for example, a Marwadi decides to open his "kirana shop" in a Muslim locality, competing with local shops run by muslims. Naturally, he'll be snuffed away and he comes out crying foul: "waaaa...India is biased" People don't modulate themselves to where there are places which is something they call "open market". Reservations of the backward classes, I agree has done its job in uplifting that section of "underpriviliged" society. Little do our administrators realize that there's a dangerous trend developing...of rich SC/ST people misusing these quotas to get into good colleges despite their poor academic records. NDTV terms this as "creamy layer". Talking of educational instts., While you have a "Benaras Hindu University" that makes others crib, you also have a "Aligarh Muslim University", and "Christian Missionary Medical college" and a "Guru Nanak college of Engg & Tech" So things are balanced, aren't they?

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Age bias: This dinky little thing can best be understood by age barriers in writing certain competitive exams. Age barriers for marriage (why 18y for you and 21 for me when I can bloddywell cast a vote at 18?). But the logic here is that ultimately the man is the "donkey" of the house, it's his duty to educate himself, and become an earning member. If I married at 18, you think I'd even be here answering this question, forget about me cracking PMT? Nyaaah!

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Professional bias: It used to strike me of....why our educationalists classify BSc, BA, BCom as "non-professional" while branding MBBS, BTech, BBA as "professional" courses. This is derogatory and bad. example, if a guy, 90% in MSc biotech and another guy, 75% in MTech biotech, go for a recruitment stint at a pharma company, the fact that MTech is "professional" would want the employer to recruit the MTech guy despite his lower academic achievenent than the MSc guy, who eventually, becomes a college lecturer. This is something to ponder about.

Epilogue (sigh....finally):
The fact that some of us just look at this whole thing with a single dimension without a composite picture gives you "answers" that are biased and not genuine points proved or disproved. India is a lovely country for you and me. I realised this when I spent time in the US, that though we jump "arre wah! mein Ammreekah jaonga", it is a pathetically boring country with Indians who've not totally integrated with the American way of life. And want to fly back home India whenever they can afford to do so. Just the fact that a dollar equals 44 ruppes keeps these thousands of Indians living there stay put. With so much of variety and flavour in this country of ours, who needs America? I don't care if I'm paid less here, Atleast I am "me" here and not some "Brown-skinned Indian expatriate" in America.

Answer 2

Why limit your question to India. What is your idea about other nations. I may be wrong, but I feel that nationalism promote a biased society.

Answer 3

A simple answer Yes.

But things are changing and core prejudices are diminishing slowly yet surely.

The fact is that discrimination in India is on many levels and sub levels. The most widely publicized prejudices are those that arise from caste but there are many more subtleties that are widely prevalent in even the Muslim and Christian communities.
For eg the Muslim Sayyeds openly discriminate against the plebeian classes in historic old cities like Lucknow and Hyderabad. Also there are age old prejudices between Sunnis and Shia in Hyderabad stemming from the times of the Nawabs.
Christians tend to be less prejudiced to other Christians and intra community discrimination is less compared to Hindus or Muslims.
Of course among Hindus the bulk of the discrimination at the present time is between the Kshatriya,Vaishya castes and those outside of the caste system the Dalits.The Brahmins lost any political clout they ever had and most of the reprisals against Brahmins are politically motivated as they are a silent community completely lacking any political muscle. A kinda of reverse discrimination if you will does exist.

Answer 4

india is a great nation
all nations are great
it is good /bad acts of the leaders that can make it seem the greatness is or is not
the acts of any citisen are not from /because of the nation ,and no nation should be judged by the acts of some great or some fool,alone.
nations are great spirit forms ,they are formed of all the thoughts of all its peoples not just one or two
no india is not a biased nation,it has many more god than evil as do all ''nations''
never judge any love is the only truth
judge neither nation nor man
try to trust to love to live and let live.

Answer 5

ofcourse not.. if it was a biased nation you would have not seen so many diffrent religions and culture flourishing there. you see the holiday list i am talking about government holidays for christmas, diwali,eid.. so India is not a biased nation.

Answer 6

no it is not a biased nation... it is just like any other nation in the world... please do not have doubts...

go to any other country and stay there for some time... you will find that all the human beings have the same good and bad qualities...

Answer 7

If you are meaning gender bias - yes of course, like any other place in the world (grass on the other side is greener - go there and you will realize we are better off).
If you are meaning bias in terms of foreign policy - again yes of course :-) It has to suit our national interests and we need to lean some way.

Answer 8

the politics has made india as biased and generated fvouritism, castism, mind pollution, hatered and all ills of the nation

Answer 9

every nation is biased one way or the other,we just dont know coz we dont live there

Answer 10

parts of India are horrible....what the men do to women there is a domestic genocide....of course...wherever you go...there is the good & bad !

Answer 11

Name me any country that is totally impartial.