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Doctors strike in India after rape and murder of trainee medic at hospital
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There are a lot of people in India, and you only hear about the exceptions. Most Indians probably don't know about this happening to anyone they know personally.
But then again, they say in the US that something like 25% of women are sexually assaulted by age 22. So it's not necessarily just an India problem.
I don't think violence against women is India specific, but it's kind of like saying, "Well, it's crowded in New York, but it's crowed everywhere these days." Like, yes, this problem isn't country specific, but one seems to be way more extreme than the other.
Their point is that India has four times the population than the USA, so if you read four times as many headlines about rape it'd be about the same per capita
Fair enough.
I think the main thing concerning about it is the stories where someone was gangraped on a public bus, or things like that. It's hard to imagine something like that happening at all, the fact that it could be happing and people there joined in instead of stopping it is what makes it so horrifying. There are also that recent case where a woman was gang raped, went to the hospital for it, and got raped again by a doctor. It's easy to discount individual cases of a bad individual doing something as bad individuals in a large society. However when one person gets raped multiple times by different people suddenly it feels like it's not isolated bad incidents and is instead a wider cultural problem.