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The gang rape of a Swiss tourist in India over the weekend has attracted wide
attention. The Indian rape epidemic has
not only shocked the world, but shamed the country which prides itself on being the
largest democracy in the world. The
frequent rape cases cast a shadow on the quality of Indian democracy.
India's rape problem comes from two things. India has a deeply rooted social
discrimination against women. And India's
rule of law is loose and government management is lacking.
These two things are closely linked to each other, and directly decide the level of
India's social progress and the quality
of its democracy.
There are both pluses and minuses in the traditional culture and social habits of any
nation. The process of modernization i
s accompanied by changes in social customs, and the rivalry between tradition and
modernization can be fierce.
India has long entered the rank of democratic countries and started its
modernization. However, the country stays in the
past when it comes to the status of women. Even in the 21st century, there are still
obsolete social customs such as forced
marriage and widow-burning. The frequent rapes mirror such bad social habits.
The largest democracy still maintains the most backward practices in the world.
Such a sharp contrast highlights the
weakness and incompetence of India's democratic system. Nobel laureate V.S.
Naipaul once said, "The crisis of India is
not only political or economic. The larger crisis is of a wounded civilization that has
at last become aware of its
inadequacies and is without the intellectual means to move ahead."
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