"Dave Liquorice" wrote in message
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On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 00:06:38 +0100, Fredxx wrote:

Riding on train roofs, hanging onto the outside of buses, driving like
maniacs is clearly insane behaviour from a culured & intelligent
nation.

It's simple. For centuries they believed in the caste system, where
individuals would be reborn, possibly into a better life. If you
believe you might be better off in the next life, this one doesn't
matter so much. Life is cheap in India, especially for the lower castes.

Aye the caste system is largely alive and well outside of the new
"affluent middle classes" (as in a western consumer definition) but even
they don't object to the lowest clearing blocked sewers with their bare
hands and nothing but a bit of cloth to protect their modesty.

As you say life is cheap. Some in here need to take the western blinkers
off and realise that the western life style is perched precariously on a
knife edge. It wouldn't take much to knock it off and the western
countries to starve. They'd starve in India as well but a much larger
proportion of the population would survive as they are already growing
most of their own food.

Don't count on it.. in that event it is a case of who has the best army that
will survive.