Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "India's Assassination Program in North America || Peter Zeihan" video.

I'm Australian and I totally agree on NOT getting involved in Indian politics. We have a lot of Indian students here, as well as many ex-pat Indians living and working in Australia. We also, due to our common links to the British have a lot of sporting ties to India (go look up cricket). Occasionally we have been drawn into Indian politics and you are dead right it is a maelstrom of pain and should be avoided at all costs. Having worked with a number of Indians ONE of the major issues is the basic structure of Indian Society. Its not simply that there are a number of tribal groups with issues going back centuries but there's also the Hindu caste system, which even if it gets explained to you does not register with Western brains. They are actually great people and their food is awesome and their love of sport even more awesome, BUT THEIR POLITICS is a place nobody should want to go.
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@JRay2113 I agree on the basic description but they are messy for very different reasons and those reasons have a lot of history. Italy as we know it wasn't a country since the fall of Rome in the 5th century. Its been a lose collection of warring states that occasionally united against a common foe but usually just assassinated each other. Italy as we know it is quite recent, but that history lingers. India has some similarities to that in that it has been a number of semi-autonomous kingdoms and even to this day has some large cultural groups who don't always get along. But while Italy has had a population of Catholics controlled by Catholics, India which is majority Hindu has been controlled by the Islamic Moguls and then the British. So its had long periods where the control was by people of another religion and culture than the bulk of the population. Then there was the split where they literally split India into 3 chunks - India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Then there is the whole Kashmir thing and the India versus China issue. I'd agree there's similarities but also some major differences.
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@rishisingh3408 The Hindu caste system is almost unique in religious ideology. There is nothing like it in Islam, Christianity or Judaism for that matter. I suggest you learn about other people and their cultures before making such stupid remarks.
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@njartvideos7694 That's not a bad way to put it. I think half the worlds problems are actually cultural misunderstandings. One of the great mistakes of the British was the policy to "make the whole world British." Just as bad is the current American policy to "make the whole world American." Which is matched by equally stupid policies out of Russia and China.
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@karandullet380 Like so many other societies India is NOT free of politically inspired murder (assassination). Go back to Roman times they almost made it the national pass time in between gladiator contests. They spread that to every part of Europe they went. If you read up on English history and especially the Tudor period it almost looks like there was another political murder each day. I'm certain you'll find it in almost any society that develops a competitive political structure.
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@rishavkumar1250 WTF are you talking about. I know the Bible very well and there's NO CASTE SYSTEM anywhere in Christianity. I covered Islam in high school and there was no mention of a caste system. I have worked with a few Muslims and they've NEVER mentioned a caste system. So WTF are you on about?
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@person1858 Somebody else said similar. However NONE of the Indian people I have worked with or known socially have ever mentioned anything about it and there's been a few have ever mentioned it. In a wat it doesn't surprise me if it happens in some odd way because Catholicism in particular has always let local peoples adapt some of their practices into Catholicism. In fact I have heard people claim that Catholicism is so riddled with older European pagan practices its barely recognisable as Christianity. The most notable example of this is Santa Claus which is a Nordic pagan thing.
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@person1858 All that said there is NOTHING in the texts or practice of European Christianity that includes any sort of caste system. And to the best of my knowledge there's nothing in Islam about any sort of caste system either.
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