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onioning t1_j108yu7 wrote

India is more complicated than that. The current nationalism they're experiencing is a historical anomaly. For most of the area's history they've been a hotbed of diversity and even celebrated their diversity. Overall the region is one of the world's shining examples of people of different beliefs and ways of life working together for mutual cooperation. Of course the British threw a giant monkey wrench into the whole thing by splitting the region into religious regions, and that has for sure caused a lot of conflict, but even then the conflict was more about nationalism than religion. It's the last couple decades where we've seen nationalism rise up, and even explicitly Hindu nationalism.

Point being there's still a strong foundation of valuing diversity and inclusion. For sure they're under fire from the modern political movement, but that foundation doesn't just disappear overnight.

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