Of all the countries, India is undoubtedly the most awkward.
If it is not strong enough, then the vast land area brought by the seventh largest country in the world, the abundance of the world's top three populations, and even the surplus labor force are enough to make most industrial countries yearn for this rapidly developing information automation society. Among the high-tech industries, Bangalore is a modern city that has been famous for a long time, both in terms of technical level and personal ability, not to mention the military level that is not well known but can actually be among the best in the world.
But to say that this country has enough capital to call the world, India's ability seems out of place. The population is now basically the first in the world, but India's domestic industries that need labor are basically tending to be saturated, and it is a difficult thing to develop its own population advantage abroad, because the local labor force of overseas countries is already in surplus, how can this foreign country be needed?
Subsequently, the military strength comes at the cost of India's own lack of internal development and development capabilities, and their existing weapons are basically buying arms from other countries at high prices, only the right to use and no independent research and development capabilities, which can be described as being stuck in the neck, and what about technology research and development? The old cities are still the tears of the times, and the progress of the country is undoubtedly impossible if it is impossible to convert the demographic advantage into the talent advantage.
Looking at the history of India, it can be found that India in modern times has really taken the express train of the times. After World War II, the production capacity is at the forefront of the world, just use the data of the mainland just founded, whether it is the number of worker factories, or steel production capacity, etc., India's data has always been several times or even ten times higher than the mainland, and the trade is holding the vast path of the India Ocean, which is already under the leadership of England, India has an unlimited future, but who knows, it is such a country that once held a strong initiative in the third world, Half a century later, the ideal is to become a power like the mainland. But at the end of the day, does India really have such capabilities?
The answer is no, and if you want to say why it is so categorical, it is enough to look at the temples, which symbolize the long-standing history and culture of India.
One. The distortion behind the temple, the fundamental reason why India cannot become a great power
If you have the opportunity to visit this side of India, in addition to the local streets and the variety of Indian cuisine, the temples of India will definitely be the most important places to see. As one of the four ancient civilizations, India's long-term culture and history are basically condensed in temples. But this time, it is not the temple that needs to be paid attention to, but a special profession inside the temple - the "temple saintess".
The "holy woman" once symbolized in many religions as the successor of the top or the task of holding the religious façade, while in India, the people who can enter the religious-related positions are generally people in the higher castes, which should be supreme.
But in reality, these so-called "holy women" are all from the lower castes, and they do not enter the temple as some object of primary cultivation or as a matter of good fortune as a religious lintel, on the contrary, they are actually sent to the temple as a private "venting tool", and the work is simply to lie in bed and serve those who are really in the upper echelons of religious positions.
Therefore, the so-called holy women of India temples also have an unnamed title - that is, "temple prostitutes". It's nothing, just a tool, and even a plaything that a woman in the customs industry is not as good as a plaything. And it is such a shameful profession, and now there are many people who send their children there in exchange for the money to provide for their own lives.
So seeing this, the reasons why India cannot become a real power are also shown, there are three reasons, and the most important is the caste system that has been around India since the beginning of India's culture, and is deeply embedded in the genes of India.
Although the caste system has been abolished by India in writing and in law, in fact this is only a verbal abolition, in fact, the essence of the caste system has become a principle for the people of India to get along with each other, and even a convention in the rules of the whole society. From top to bottom, the Indian caste is divided into Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras, and a fifth group, the untouchable equivalent of the untouchable (untouchables who cannot even have citizenship).
The saints, on the other hand, are selected or chosen from the third class, the Vaishyas, because the Brahmins and Kshatriyas belong to the monks, who symbolize the absolute power of religion, and the aristocratic class, which is the apparent ruler, respectively, and the other castes are to provide for the existence of these two classes, so it is only natural that this offering is not only money, which is the most common material thing, but also the body is a means of material support.
So, can these people who were sent to the temple as "holy women" resist? The answer is no, the caste system exists not only as simple class pressure, but also as a kind of oppression and rebellion from rights and social obligations.
Speaking of which, then it is also easy to understand why the caste system is a major obstacle to India's emergence as a developed country. Because it itself symbolizes the existence of India's history and culture, it is impossible for the Indian people to achieve the foundation of becoming a great power - that is, a fundamental social system that allows everyone to be equal and the driving force for the happiness of the people. In this regard, not to mention comparing with the mainland, I am afraid that compared with other countries in the world, the happiness level and motivation of its residents will also be the lowest.
Let's ask, in a society where birth determines the future social status, what kind of work will be done in the future, and what kind of person will become, can the people who live there still be able to pursue an ideal? The answer can only be no. Because such a person is not even allowed to have the freedom to pursue and think, and when thinking itself becomes a sin, creativity, development, productivity, etc., will also decline, and the capable or gifted people, as long as they are not the first two castes, then their talents are doomed to die in obscurity in the dry soil that cannot bloom. Rights and benefits will only be repeated in the hands of people at a higher level, regardless of ability, regardless of meritocracy, just look at the background, as long as there is a good birth, then can stand at the top of the pyramid, in this case, then how many people can be willing to build such a country? And a country that cannot provide its people with a living guarantee, what kind of background and ability does it have to say that it wants to become a strong country?
Two. Based on another layer of discrimination under the caste system - gender and marital discrimination
Under the most basic caste system, other contradictions have emerged, among which is this gender and marital discrimination that exists all over the world but is particularly prominent in India.
Although these two types of discrimination have become a worldwide problem, this contradiction is magnified even more in India's caste system. In India, the gender hierarchy is also very strict, the most obvious of which is that in the same caste, the status of men is significantly higher than that of women, and even the status and treatment of women in the eyes of people of the same caste are only higher than those of the lower caste.
As for the rest of the lower castes, the position of women in this position is even more awkward.
Why is it embarrassing, then we have to mention the marriage system in India.
In this modern country, India still has a very deformed system of marriage and love values: in India's marriage system of men and women, the man does not have to pay anything. On the contrary, if the woman wants to marry, the woman's family needs to bear the preparation of many things, and it is very expensive, so expensive that it can even be said that the dowry can be married to the other party. Therefore, in India, the presence of daughters is very embarrassing. Not only do you have to raise from childhood to adulthood, but the other party's family assets will also shrink by half after marriage. And for this, India has even formed a terrifying atmosphere of making black money by marrying a wife, as long as the wife dies, then it means that the husband can immediately marry the next wife to collect money, and the cycle repeats.
From a caste point of view, people of the lower castes cannot choose their own love. The caste system stipulates that a person of a lower caste cannot choose a person of higher caste to be a partner, while a person of higher caste is able to choose the same caste and further change from a person of lower caste. The so-called freedom of love is also a higher level of freedom. And becoming the partner of a high-caste person, at first glance it seems to be a step to the sky, but in fact, those who are selected as a low-caste person have become more of a tool of the perverted marriage system in India, even if they become each other's partners, their deeds and status have not changed by half a point, they are still the existence of the lower caste, and most of this existence will become a one-time prop used by the man to collect money, and in the end can only be reduced to a nothing.
So, in such a big situation, those who are of the lower castes think that it is a good choice to send their daughters away and let them become "saints" for the rest of their lives, at least they no longer have to pay the high fees of Nabi after the children get married, so that they can make ends meet in the future, but they can even get a sum of money from it. From a rational point of view, this is indeed a different kind of optimal solution, but from a moral and human point of view, such behavior is really embarrassing, and even has to be further condemned.
It is true that no matter how powerful a country is, it is like running into a mountain when facing this problem. But how can India's institution of marriage, which treats women as objects, unite the people of this country? Men want to be able to acquire more property through this improper way, and women are even more worried, in this circle of interests, how to build India, a country with a vast land and population? The role of every member of a strong country is important, and everyone is an indispensable cog, and such an excessive system is to completely scrap more than half of the cogs, so that they are entangled in the bottomless pit of reputation and money.
Three. Religion with absolute domination is a shackle to development
In addition to the caste system, there is another thing in India that restricts the development of the real economy and the operation of policies - and that is the religion of India.
In modern times, it is not surprising that people in a country have religious beliefs, and many people in old developed countries such as United States and United Kingdom believe in Christianity. But their belief is more of a psychological sustenance, or in other words, the essence of religion is just a tool for them, which can be turned into motivation and then used, or used as a suitable reason and excuse for their own behavior, even if the discerning person knows that this is not reasonable, but in terms of absolute strength, such a fallacy can also be regarded as a reason.
However, the religion of India is different, its existence is different from those religions we know, it is the existence of psychological sustenance, on the contrary, the religion of India is real and has a certain ability to interfere with political trends. Even beings who can influence thoughts.
As mentioned above, religious people, who were able to enter the temple, were basically high-caste nobles, and their own existence was already at the center of power in the state. And India's thinking is even more so, the absolute control of the upper class over the lower class, which has been clearly defined in history, then, the rules formulated by the religious side, the only thing the people of the lower class can do is to obey all the way. Because religion is not just a symbol of superiority, they themselves are the history of the country itself.
Moreover, religion in India is a loyal embrace of the caste system, a class system that they value so much that they adopt an ideological tyranny over the lower classes. What kind of people do what kind of things, you can't go beyond ...... So much so that the degree of cultural civilization in India is still at a very low level.
Because of this, many progressive ideas and institutions are completely unenforceable in India, because they more or less harm the interests of the people of these higher caste systems, or the way for the country to become strong is to divide the vast majority of their rights and vested interests to satisfy those people at the lower levels of the pyramid, so that their interests can be satisfied and later fill the shortcomings of the country. Faced with this situation, they naturally will not agree, and it is precisely because of this that the country of India cannot be truly strong.
After all, the price of strength for religions to sacrifice their interests in exchange for the so-called strength of the state, and at the same time the possibility of self-consciousness awakening to these tools that are already serving themselves, is too great.
- epilogue
Therefore, if this posture continues, India cannot become an ideal developed and strong country, even if most of the people born in the elite can become the pillars that can support the country's development, but for this ship and the small group of people on board, the most important thing is always the water that pushes them forward.
Without the people, there would be no country, and if the people are not strong, the country cannot be strong.
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