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Originally Posted by Platapus
Most of asia and the middle east have the same custom of using the right hand for "clean" actions and the left for "unclean". In many cultures you touch a child only with your right hand (pat them on the head) but you pet a dog with your left.
A live cow can provide more benefit to a community than a dead cow. Cows can produce milk, cows can help fertilize the crops which feed more people than cow flesh can, Cow dung is also used in many different ways. Also, cows were the preferred pet for some of the Hindu gods. Let's not mock someone else religious beliefs. Many people here believe that a simple case of grave robbery is the foundation of Christianity. Should they be mocked? No. 
Do you eat dogs and cats? Why not? They are mammals. But in our culture dogs and cats are pets and not food. In other cultures that is a silly concept. Just because we eat cows, does that mean that everyone has to eat cows? I don't think so.
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Again, that is part of their religion. The Ganges river, to many Hindu's is a sacred being in itself. By bathing in the Ganges, it is the belief of many Hindus that they can be cleansed.
The question is what is wrong with you? You are evaluating a foreign culture through your own culture. This is what is called a "Cultural Lens" . A cultural lens can be an impediment to understanding other cultures. The observation that since "we" don't do that "here", infers that "they" should not do it "there" is sophistry.
It is their culture, and if the citizens wish it to change they can, but it will take time. |
I'm talking about the India as a whole - its filthy. I don't care if they are Hindu's or Jews or Eskimos!, India is a dirty place. They could clean up their act, human faeces where people walk in some places.
That ain't a culture that's filth.
Their government had no trouble finding the money to host the Commonwealth games but their seems to be no money or they just dont care about the filth everywhere else. They moved shanty towns bulldozered it to make way for the games. I mean the first thing they could spend money on is a proper sewage system instead of pooh everywhere.
And yes if Christians were once grave robbers mock them for all I care. Christians burned at the stake anyone that even had a hint of being a witch hundreds if not thousands were wrongly murdered cause of the fear of witches. Should they be mocked for those killings? Why not. I don't even care.
