most of educated India is progressive, and liberal and tolerant and pluralist.
i won't say most but some, but "some" in india's context is still a reasonably large number... so i agree with you most of the way.
see, there are still those from the youth who support the older socialist groups and there are those youth who saw aap as something that will change india in more than one way.
i also speak of the progressive older generation, in government or private occupations, who did love marriages or inter-religion/inter-caste marriages or worked for the rights of others or agitated against superstition or forwarded the progressive of films or... well, things like that.
some of those guys work all night, and during all Indian holidays.. but they get the 4th of July off, I doubt the firang flags mean they support NATO aggression and wars.. most people don't care about that stuff anyway.
yet they will watch and laugh during cruel or silly recent nato propaganda films like "the dictator" and "the interview" or older ones like "rambo" series??
like i said previously, not everyone there is non-progressive and i did not reject all people in a reactionary manner... i speak of the sad case where majority of those are reactionary but in a modern way.
i will tell you of a incident from 2003... the indian journalist, saeed naqvi, had a regular program on doordarshan about the 2003 iraq invasion which had just begun... a reporter and cameraman were in baghdad but the program also regularly took opinions in india across the demographic spectrum... in one episode, a software engineer from bangalore called iraq a "rogue nation", a term invented by nato to describe any country that doesn't obey nato agenda.
why was that bangalore engineer showing himself to be a mindless drone on tv?? obviously, he thought what was told about the world to him by mainstream media and his professional peers and his family elders and his college was the truth and nothing but the truth.
cut to 2014... who were the people who flooded facebook and twitter with campaigns in favor of a bjp government and a modi sarkaar?? it was the same types from 2003... why did most indian pdf members not make of modi when he declared that "ancient indians" were the first to have motor cars?? who are these members??
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so i have given you both type of groups - the progressive and the nots.
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so in a way globalization is exploitation but those jobs are still a means to a better life for many who would otherwise have not have had a shot at anything
a short example - ibm-usa has employee union system but ibm-india does not... why is that??
globalization is not bad in itself, bad has been in how many countries understood and implemented it... i am more comfortable with globalization with me being a socialist... what has gone wrong is in many poor countries is that the urge to earn the quick and big buck led to many exploitative minds being uncaring of workers rights, whether this be in vietnam or in china or in india.
all thanks to your lefty economic policies over the years.
i am yet to hear of lefty policies in india... even as many banks were nationalized, they retained the interest-based economics from before before.