Quote: (12-03-2013 10:21 PM)Wutang Wrote:
Something that confuses me is that India is known for being a harsh country for a female to live in but at the same time I'm always hearing about how Indian American girls are super spoiled. If Indian men really are as sexist as the stereotypes, wouldn't their behavior towards women in their family be the opposite of spoiling and pampering them?
The tl;dr explanation is that there are two Indias... there's the uneducated, illiterate India which is mostly responsible for the "keeping women down" and the rapes, and there's the educated India, which is mostly responsible for the princesses.
Sometimes the two clash, such as in the Delhi bus rape example where a princess somehow got raped in a bus by the untouchables and the whole country erupted as a result.
If the girl speaks English, guarantee that she is a princess. She may not behave like one to a foreigner because they are more high status, but she'll think she's too good for 99% of her countrymen.