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Great food for thought
by Arman on Dec 17, 2007 09:27 PM

"while Westerners function on moral absolutes, Indians function on contextual morality"

No exactly. Western moral absoluteness is only applicable to their own stock. History is witness that this morality never stopped them from exploiting unsuspecting non westerners. Apartheid, slavery, absolute annihiliation of indeginous population in Americas, the list is endless. While in India, we are just the reverse. We apply moral absoluteness when we judge ourseleves, whereas have no problem accepting moral relativism when it comes to others. This weakness has been exploited by firangis repeatedly but we still don't get it.

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