Journal metlin's Journal: Bastions of Democracy: India's new Prime Minister 1
India has elected it's new Prime Minister, and she's not Indian born, and neither is she Hindu. She is caucasian in a country of a billion people who aren't. The new Prime Minister is an Italian Roman Catholic woman -- and she is not even India's first woman Prime Minister.
I'll paraphrase from a Times of India article --
"...India will now have a Christian Prime Minister to go with a Muslim President (a widow and a bachelor to boot). The bastion of democracy, religious freedom and human rights -- the mostly white Christian United States, to paraphrase the description of India by western correspondents -- is set to elect its 44th President -- another Christian white male."
Despite everything, this is a true example of tolerance, secularism and democracy at work.
Way to go! Good to see that democracy atleast works for real in some parts of the world!
Heh. (Score:1)
It always pissed me off to read the rather condescending "mainly Hindu India" tagline (usually next to "muslim Pakistan"), even in 'liberal' rags like th