Understanding Cultural Differences in Values

Fairness. Now these are all European concepts.

You think that these are parts of, uh, y-

firmament. They aren't. The, the concepts like fairness,

justice, trust, empathy, and impartiality are

completely alien concepts to the Indian mind.

They cannot differentiate between right and wrong.

They can't-- simply can't differentiate between what

is right and wrong.

They do not have the concepts, the Western value concepts

that you think are a part of the natural

existence. They aren't.

Human rights is a Western concept that is incomprehensible to

Indians.

They fail to understand personal space and respect for the individual.

Speaking to them about rights, uh, even negative rights, I'm not

talking about positive right, even about negative rights, only

leads to confusion.

So here is the foundational principle to understanding India.

It is an amoral, it is an

amoral, irrational society

devoid of values.

Any values you try to instill will slip

off like a water off a, a duck's back.

So here is the problem with Indians.

You cannot teach them anything good until the foundations of

morality, rationality, causality, and other Western values have

first been laid in their minds.

How would you do that job? I don't know how you can do it.

Without these foundations, the fruit of the Western

civilization only serve to turn their hedonistic

tendencies into something more malevolent