Three men were arrested Saturday after the gang rape of a Spanish tourist on a motorbike trip through India's remote east with her husband, local media reports said.
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.
Edit: lmao I tried giving India the benefit of the doubt
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.
Eh, mystics like to pass them off as crazy fortune telling tools from eastern west egypto-japan-istan, so it’s reasonable to believe that’s where they’re from. The reality is that they’re just Italian playing cards.
Me and my sister liked all that mystic\occult stuff when we were kids, for the fun of it, which now feels a bit dangerous since many people on the Web posting about that were absolutely serious.
One could find long texts about identifying vampires around you sucking energy through proximity and all that stuff.
I’d say this worked as a vaccine - too often I meet people discreetly or openly believing in such things, and usually their interests in their childhood were more mundane.
Man, India always has the worst news stories coming out of it.
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.
Edit: lmao I tried giving India the benefit of the doubt
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.
Just a heads-up, Tarot cards were invented in Italy, not Asia, Africa or the Middle East.
Another glitch in my memory
Eh, mystics like to pass them off as crazy fortune telling tools from eastern west egypto-japan-istan, so it’s reasonable to believe that’s where they’re from. The reality is that they’re just Italian playing cards.
Well, now I know until I forget.
Me and my sister liked all that mystic\occult stuff when we were kids, for the fun of it, which now feels a bit dangerous since many people on the Web posting about that were absolutely serious.
One could find long texts about identifying vampires around you sucking energy through proximity and all that stuff.
I’d say this worked as a vaccine - too often I meet people discreetly or openly believing in such things, and usually their interests in their childhood were more mundane.
[…] used to be perceived as a place of beauty and spirituality […]
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.
sexual conservatism
Are you talking about the pre-colonial era? Because it’s been the same, probably even worse, since before any of us were alive.
Pakistan being a thing because they thought a nationalist Hindustan was cringe