Most Indians pride themselves on using their brains especially being blessed with mathematical skills. Many people I know in India can do mental arithmetic by themselves as efficient as a calculator. India has also produced several mathematicians and chess Grandmasters. Also people in India are taught to live without than with something for adaptability reasons. If you can live without a bed and are capable of sleeping on the floor, you can always adjust to a soft bed later on, but its much harder vice versa. We should not lose our in-built abilities/conditioning due to our usage of tools.
Its this psyche that probably makes them rely on the self first. For example if you had to do an important task and rely heavily on the laptop and the net and then at a crucial moment you experience a power failure/battery down (a common occurrence here), a self reliant person can still find a way but a gadget reliant person maybe lost. However the laptop IMO can be introduced as a tool like a notebook/pen that we can use if needed after a certain level of "old school" education.
More people are finding out about the anonymity the internet is providing and women have an opportunity to thrive in a situation where they can have as many relationships that they would be unable or afraid to have in real life without pressure from society's norms (I am not talking about just women in the US who may already have this freedom but other countries too). You will soon find that what makes a man different from a woman will change soon as both of them get similar exposure, outdoor life and access to information and no/low restriction on their behaviour. Often you may find that in such situations women will behave the same as men if not worse.
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Most Indians pride themselves on using their brains especially being blessed with mathematical skills. Many people I know in India can do mental arithmetic by themselves as efficient as a calculator. India has also produced several mathematicians and chess Grandmasters. Also people in India are taught to live without than with something for adaptability reasons. If you can live without a bed and are capable of sleeping on the floor, you can always adjust to a soft bed later on, but its much harder vice versa. We should not lose our in-built abilities/conditioning due to our usage of tools. Its this psyche that probably makes them rely on the self first. For example if you had to do an important task and rely heavily on the laptop and the net and then at a crucial moment you experience a power failure/battery down (a common occurrence here), a self reliant person can still find a way but a gadget reliant person maybe lost. However the laptop IMO can be introduced as a tool like a notebook/pen that we can use if needed after a certain level of "old school" education.
just one line... Survival of the fittest.
More people are finding out about the anonymity the internet is providing and women have an opportunity to thrive in a situation where they can have as many relationships that they would be unable or afraid to have in real life without pressure from society's norms (I am not talking about just women in the US who may already have this freedom but other countries too). You will soon find that what makes a man different from a woman will change soon as both of them get similar exposure, outdoor life and access to information and no/low restriction on their behaviour. Often you may find that in such situations women will behave the same as men if not worse.