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This is gonna sound racist as hell but why is there so much rape over in India? I feel like I hear about a new story like this every other week
1-I think lack of sex education and hyper-conservative sexual repression along with misogynistic society that blames the victim are the main causes.
2-Also many sex offenders either have political connections or are related to political leaders making them immune to persecution.
3-Corruption and inertia in the law and order system makes it easier to get away with crime.
4-Poverty is another issue. Poor women and girls are at higher risk of being sexually assaulted. With 57% of the population making less than $2.34 per day and dependent on rations for food.
5-Caste system also puts women at risk. Since the start of Hinduism people are divided in four classes. The ruling class, The priests, the business class and the labour class. In that order the labour class form the lowest caste called Dalits who were historically treated as slaves and untouchables. The culture still prevails to an extent. Rapes committed by higher caste people on lower caste victims are not taken seriously by society and usually the lower caste victims are considered to be lying about rape.
There is nothing inherently wrong with Indian people because almost half of the Singapore is populated by Indians and this doesn’t happen there because of strict laws that don’t bend for anyone and higher sexual literacy and per capita income.
Also, add the fact that the population is 1.5 billion. Which is about a fifth of the wold, meaning that if every place had equal rape probability, one in five/six rape cases would still be from india.
The only other country with that kind of population has a stricter control over its media and crime statistics. And most of its media is in Chinese. So we hear very little about any type of crimes there.
There are many countries with higher rape rates per capita than India, but in terms of conviction rate, and corruption in the law enforcement as well as lower courts India is somewhere at the bottom.
And don’t forget the victim blaming and abuse of power by ruling parties.
In many rape cases relatives of the ruling party or even MPs like Brij Bhushan are themselves implicated. It can be automatically assumed the victim will never get justice in that case.
Casteism is also a problem unique to India and cases like Hathras shows ruling party’s apathy to rape victims of lower castes. Additionally society in general denies justice to lower caste rape victims.
Victim blaming and casteism are sociological elements of a premature society.
India will never progress with the mindset that some other country is much worse so that can make them look better. One has to acknowledge what’s wrong with the country and then try to fix it. Irrespective of what’s happening in the rest of the world.
Not racist at all. And the news isn’t covering as many stories as they shoul be.