>>19239887I actually like India, and appreciate many things about its history and culture. However, I don't understand why modern Indians keep droning on about a) the accomplishments of an ancient people, and b) the accomplishments of Indian-origin people who no longer live in India.
The implication of the first point is that India is no longer an advanced society that is producing unique or noteworthy research, such that its modern residents must turn to the past for any palpable sense of the achievement. The implication of the second point is that India affords so little opportunity to citizens that they are forced to emigrate; it's a bizarre glorification of brain drain, something which is objectively bad for India as a nation and India as a united economy.
In other words, both instances are low-effort mental gymnastics, which serve only to make people feel better about the fact that their present circumstances neither reflect past glory nor the current rhetoric of their leaders.
