Just out of curiosity, where is it prohibited in Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji?
I think the divorce rate in Punjab is lower because it's not socially acceptable for a couple to divorce, even in cases of domestic violence. Although I agree in principle that casual sex and lack of committment are not virtuous qualities my personal opinion is that not allowing couples to divorce due to domestic violence is worse. I wouldn't say divorce is due to 'primiscuity and egotism' but a higher expectation (perhaps delusional) of quality of life. Westerners don't want to stay in a relationship that's not working. By the same token they can be less inclined to put committment behind working out their problems. Of course, these are generalisations and there are people who sit at either end of the spectrum and everywhere in between.
In the UK, 34% of marriages will end before the 20th wedding anniversary, which is at the lower end of your ball park. Source. OMG a source!
Prostitution is a global trade, Punjab is not exempt. Here's an article about trying to break a prostitution tradition in a Punjabi village. Luckily we don't really have this kind of tradition in the West. Nor do we have temples with prostitutues like some temples in India still do.
There is a porn industry in India. India has made good contributions to sexuality in the world, with literature like the Kama Sutra. There is no equivelant sex manual in 'the West' unless you include The Joy Of Sex complete with the illustrations with 70's moustaches lol
What about rape, does that count as extra marital sex? Rape occurs in Punjab as well as western countries.
Please show me your statistics. How have you compared the comparitively small Punjabi region with whatever 'the West' is exactly? Serial killers are not found in Punjab? Just corrupt officials who knock off anyone who gets in their way, but it's ok because they have power? Here's an article about the recent shooting of the police officer who was trying to protect his daughter. But I'm sure he wasn't terrorising anyone but just defending his community.
There's no formal apology for Operation Blue Star either.
Greed is definately a problem in the west. I will agree, quality of life in the west is so high because it's built on the foundation of exploiting poorer 3rd world countries. Or just exploiting in general. Like Apple and their Chinese factories.
I might suggest that poverty in India is reinforced by the caste system which is still perpetuated by some Sikhs. The west has nothing to do with that bugbear in the India closet.
Can I see some suicide rates for Punjab? Can we include honour killings in the total because I'm not sure where else it fits in our discussion.
Westerners are not the only ones capable of racism... ... ...
Please tell me more about the white supremacy agenda, with sources. Sorry you've had such a negative personal experience with names. My western workplace employes a lot of multicultural people, including a couple of Sikhs.
The attack in Wisconsin was tragic and related to white supremacy. I point out they are the minority. I don't know much about racism in Punjab, I've never been there. I would speculate that racism is a human quality, coming from our tendancy to compartmentalise and see differences. From my personal experience, during my school years multiculturalism was drilled into me. Our countries are so multicultural now its hard to identify with our own sense of western culture. There is constant promotion in my country of multicultural events, tolerance and diversity. Does the same happen in Punjab? I've been warned, as a white female, if I ever do visit India I should always wear a salwar kameez and be wary because I will be viewed as a piece of meat by Indian men. I think that might be a form of racism.
I would say, each culture has it's stengths and weaknesses. Each culture has it's own moral standard. You can't arbitrarily apply one cultural mode to another culture and call it proof.
I'm glad I'm a woman in a western country. I have a voice, I have freedom to be responsible for myself without a man making all my decisions for me, I can choose who I marry, I can divorce them with support from my community if my husband beats me or demands I have an abortion, and I exist with a whole heap of other women because we are valued, not seen as a burdon, in our society. We are not aborted in the womb because of our gender, our birth is celebrated like the birth of a boy, and we can walk down the street in our mini skirts without a high risk of a man groping us.
Here's an article on dowry and female feoticide (which apparently isn't as under control as you might think) in Punjab: http://punjabnewsline.com/news/Eliminate-dowry_-female-foeticide-from-Punjab_-Harsimrat-Badal.html
I'm not going to argue this with you anymore. Perhaps our next exchange could be of the positive things both our cultures have contributed to the world. Because along with the bad things there are good things too, in both cultures. And I'm done slinging mud.
