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It's not just your coworker. The ones beating their chests and howling about India being a superpower are just as keenly aware of the issues plaguing their society and culture.I unironically had an Indian coworker talking about how Indians are everywhere nowadays, and he compared his own group to "locusts" and just started laughing.
The more one looks into Indian society, the more one realises that outsiders cannot be as cruel to them as they are to each other
Same as blacks tbh
Indians react so poorly to anti-Indian hate because they know deep down the hatred is earned and the allegations are valid. The same can be said for Bangladeshis and the rest of the subcontinent.
And they aren't just cruel to each other more, they usually also dehumanize other groups more so than the reverse.
Most people from the 3rd world, not just South Asia, are culturally brain-poisoned by a combination of siege mentality and unearned superiority — without ever having been taught critical thinking, self-reflection, and/or enlightenment values, broadly speaking. As a result, even when they understand the problem, they default to a knee-jerk reaction, lashing out and making fools of themselves.
Black people and the majority of POC in 1st world countries suffer from pretty much the same exact problem (delusions of supremacy + victimhood); "3rd world" is really more of a mindset than a matter of geography.