Saturday, December 15, 2007

How India sees itself

An interesting survey carried out by Pew.

"The Pew poll asked people in 47 countries if they agreed or disagreed with the following statement: “our people are not perfect, but our culture is superior to others.” Indians topped the list, with a whopping 93 per cent agreeing that our culture was superior to others, with 64 per cent agreeing completely, without any reservations."

Continue reading here.

It should be noted that the respondents would have only been the educated classes, which begets the question, "Are these the views of a majority of the Indians?"

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