The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity (2005) Author: Amartya Sen It is not good to stereotype people. Everyone is an individual with his own traits, likes and dislikes. Since the late 1990s, Indians worldwide have earned the dubious honour of being painfully argumentative. Social media has been biased in depicting a confrontational image of an Indian person. It is always an Indian arguing over his vegetarian food, demanding to know why his flight is delayed or acting like a Karen. It is surprising that if Indians were really that cantankerous in voicing their opinions, how is it that a small battalion of British soldiers brought down repeated rebellions, looted and decimated a country which was earning 20 % of the world GDP to one which was the 13th poorest country in the world when they left. How did they subdue the argumentative Indian? I wonder if Gandhi's rhetoric of passive resistance and brotherly love for fellow mankind had anything to do...
It is all Mimesis