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Re: People in India are angry at Snapchat but they are boycotting a wrong app

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Post by meagher »

ultimoo wrote: post #2

As an Indian, it bothers me how sensitive, insecure, and thin skinned India is as a country. Every time someone makes a comment on something controversial, or makes a joke on India millions of armchair warriors will get their pride hurt and be up in arms boycotting and protesting it on facebook, reddit, etc. (sometimes there are real life protests too). It's so silly really. On the contrary, countries like the US, Au…

We live in an age of "looking to be offended."

(That said people say unnecessary things when they should just follow the golden rule.)

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Post by ganfortran »

ultimoo wrote: post #2

As an Indian, it bothers me how sensitive, insecure, and thin skinned India is as a country. Every time someone makes a comment on something controversial, or makes a joke on India millions of armchair warriors will get their pride hurt and be up in arms boycotting and protesting it on facebook, reddit, etc. (sometimes there are real life protests too). It's so silly really. On the contrary, countries like the US, Au…

I don't think so. In my recent memory, people boycott StarBucks because of its CEO's words on hiring refugees. They also went on to boycott Ivanka Trump's product, because a Trump is a Trump.

Outrage culture is the norm in social media era. U.S is a big market, I think very few companies is dare to insult it on a national scale. And US is rich, such idiotic remark is just going to be ignored for it is simply not true. But it doesn't mean if something sensitive is touched, there wouldn't be a backlash, such as race.

I think poverty is still a big issue in India, and people are sensitive to be looked down because of that. So it comes the outrage.

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ultimoo wrote: post #2

As an Indian, it bothers me how sensitive, insecure, and thin skinned India is as a country. Every time someone makes a comment on something controversial, or makes a joke on India millions of armchair warriors will get their pride hurt and be up in arms boycotting and protesting it on facebook, reddit, etc. (sometimes there are real life protests too). It's so silly really. On the contrary, countries like the US, Au…

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Post by vinay427 »

chillacy wrote: post #14
anodin3 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of the things I've mentioned are part of Indian culture, at least the way it's shown to the rest of the world. Or are you going to tell me cows being sacred has anything to do with being poor?

I don't really see why that's any funnier than any of the myriad of things we do here in our own countries that aren't practiced elsewhere.

It's funnier because of hypocrisy, partly a result of cultural norms. For example, a strange accent (to an American or many other English speakers) could be perceived as "funny" unless conditioned otherwise, even if this has nothing to do with a person's status or a country's level of development.

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ultimoo wrote: post #2

As an Indian, it bothers me how sensitive, insecure, and thin skinned India is as a country. Every time someone makes a comment on something controversial, or makes a joke on India millions of armchair warriors will get their pride hurt and be up in arms boycotting and protesting it on facebook, reddit, etc. (sometimes there are real life protests too). It's so silly really. On the contrary, countries like the US, Au…

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Post by sidmitra »

ultimoo wrote: post #2

As an Indian, it bothers me how sensitive, insecure, and thin skinned India is as a country. Every time someone makes a comment on something controversial, or makes a joke on India millions of armchair warriors will get their pride hurt and be up in arms boycotting and protesting it on facebook, reddit, etc. (sometimes there are real life protests too). It's so silly really. On the contrary, countries like the US, Au…

I think there's also some selective bias. The people ranting and raving on twitter, i'd imagine they're the vocal minority(of an even more minority of people on social media). I also think a lot of people are just trolling, or just joining in the fun without actually believing in the cause.

So i don't think there's anything to be bothered about. I think billions of Indians are just going about there business and not shouting out on twitter. Of-course there are other serious social problems/believes that bother me more. But only a few of them are ever discussed on social media.

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Post by sidmitra »

ultimoo wrote: post #2

As an Indian, it bothers me how sensitive, insecure, and thin skinned India is as a country. Every time someone makes a comment on something controversial, or makes a joke on India millions of armchair warriors will get their pride hurt and be up in arms boycotting and protesting it on facebook, reddit, etc. (sometimes there are real life protests too). It's so silly really. On the contrary, countries like the US, Au…

I think there's also some selective bias. The people ranting and raving on twitter, i'd imagine they're the vocal minority(of an even more minority of people on social media). I also think a lot of people are just trolling, or just joining in the fun without actually believing in the cause.

So i don't think there's anything to be bothered about. I think billions of Indians are just going about there business and not shouting out on twitter. Of-course there are other serious social problems/believes that bother me more. But only a few of them are ever discussed on social media.

Re: People in India are angry at Snapchat but they are boycotting a wrong app

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Post by smenyp »

This is nothing particular to India. On the day Snapchat went public, investors in the US bought the wrong company - Snap Interactive. These were investors, who were putting their money at risk!

Point is, this happens everywhere and people are irrational.

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/02/snap-interactive-shares-brief...

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Post by clock_tower »

legolas2412 wrote: post #12
shouldbworking wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are probably right. In the same sentence as India he also mentioned Spain but nobody there seems to care. I know nothing about Indian and Spanish culture so I can't speculate on the reason.

Snapchat is down to 1 star in spain too. Apparently, they care.

When I first heard about this story, I thought that "poor countries like Spain" was the funniest thing I'd heard all week. (If you think Spain's poor, I hope you never witness the heartbreaking poverty of Taiwan and South Korea, its rough peers by GDP-per-capita.) But I can certainly see how it was a lot less funny in Spain itself...

Re: People in India are angry at Snapchat but they are boycotting a wrong app

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Post by clock_tower »

smenyp wrote: post #28

This is nothing particular to India. On the day Snapchat went public, investors in the US bought the wrong company - Snap Interactive. These were investors, who were putting their money at risk! Point is, this happens everywhere and people are irrational. http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/02/snap-interactive-shares-brief...

I've heard there's also a penny stock with the symbol NEST, which shoots up every time Nest (which is privately held) is in the news...
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