Why do we always subconsciously look down on India?

In the past, there was indeed a statement of discrimination against Indians. In Hong Kong and the Old Shanghai Concession, Indians have a special title: A San, which means the bottom coolie.

But now, I think that looking down on India actually stems from the prejudice of lack of knowledge and short knowledge. In essence, this is also a cognitive bias, judging others or judging a country through one's limited experience and knowledge.

For example, northerners think southerners are too weak and frank, southerners think northerners are too impatient and straightforward, orientals think the west is not developed enough, and the west thinks the economic development of orientals is too eager for quick success and too noisy.

In fact, to be honest, I once looked down on India, because I accidentally saw a message on CCTV a few years ago: by 2020, the Indian government promised to realize that every family has its own bathroom. Until now, less than half of households in India have private bathrooms.

At that time, I thought that going to the toilet was actually the basic right of every family. In India, there are very few families with independent toilets, which is far behind the development level of China. So at that time, I concluded that India's development was very backward.

It was not until I learned about the development of India by some chance that I realized that the development of India was not as shabby as I thought. Although India's discrimination against women and children is very deep and there are many slums, these are not all of India.

Education in India is actually elite education, focusing on cultivating outstanding head talents. And Indian technology is actually developing very well. In the United States, many senior staff of high-tech companies are from India. India always wants to compete with China in many aspects, but the gap between India and China has been narrowing.