Thread 214152872

Why do people of Afghanistan and Pakistan feel superior to people of India? They usually say that Indians are poor and dirty, but doesn't that apply to them as well?

Pakistan and Afghanistan both have lower HDI, lower literacy rates, lower per capita GDP than India, and very similar levels of pollution (although India's pollution is highlighted far more in the media)

The international reputation of India is much worse. Does this prove that racism is related to lookism? Pakistan and Afghanistan are perceived as better by outsiders and by themselves because they look more eurocentric?

>>214152872 (OP)
Muslims consider heathens to be subhuman. Christians and Jews only have to pay jizya, but heathens are basically animals to them.

>Why do people of Afghanistan and Pakistan feel superior to people of India? They usually say that Indians are poor and dirty, but doesn't that apply to them as well?

Scamming, shitting streets, street food, and cow rape make India a lot worse than Pakistan or Afghanistan.

>>214152910
It's funny you say this because Afghans and Pakistanis are racist to each other too. Even in Pakistan, Pashtuns/Balochis are racist to Punjabis/Sindhis and vice versa too. Often the racism is because of skin colour rather than wealth/development. Pashtuns feel superior because of how they look even though they are way poorer and more backward than dalkhor (Punjabi/Sindhi).
>>214152990
India has this image as the most disgusting place on earth. But Afghanistan and Pakistan are objectively worse in most metrics. The pollution levels are very similar in all three countries. Afghanistan and Pakistan have very serious widespread issues like bacha bazi, child marriage, illiteracy, which India has solved to a good extent. India grapples with an image issue and media representation. But no one would actually visit Pakistan or Afghanistan to begin with.