[TomServo]

Welcome to FR.

[freedomcrusader]

This is how great cultures and countries fall: they rot from within as anti-intellectual and immoral philosophies gain popular currency and are taught in the schools.

While I tend to believe this statement, I sure would like to see some historical analysis that backs it up.

[Restorer]

This year alone there have been 72 gang rapes and 93 other rapes in Punjab province, often by higher caste men against lower caste women.

Interesting statistic, but like most, essentially meaningless except in comparison to something else.

These 165 rapes equate to .0041 per 1000 female population of the 80,000,000 people in Punjab province.

The equivalent rape rate in the US is .71 per 1000 female population.

So if Punjab had the same rate of rape as the US, there would have been 28,400 rapes there, not 165.

Of course, this doesn't take into account unreported rapes in either group. And there has never been a "court"-ordered rape here. But we should think carefully before we go denouncing them as a society particularly prone to rape.

Ain't statistics wonderful?

[.30Carbine]

Very, very nice post.

PS - The link on your FReeper homepage to your shipofstate site does not work...found it anyway, but thought you might like to fix that.

[EdReform]

Bump

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

Cultures belong ONLY at their point of origin!

[USA21]

Diversity another word for Socialism