mendosa
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The Napoleanic version applies in France because they have a mostly homogeneous demographicIt's interesting. The Napoleonic version of secularism, Laicite, requires all religions to drop their religion in public and keep it behind closed doors. It means that Christians and Muslims both have to wear neutral clothing and shut-up about religion in public.
: Mostly Caucasian by racial predisposition
: Mostly Christian by religious affiliation
: Mostly French by ethnicity
: Mostly French by language
The 'Black, Algerian, Muslim' demographic is a small minority which punches under its weight. That community has been restricted to ghettos of France.
The difference between "us" versus "the other" becomes easy when the "us" is homogeneous across various parameters. It's not possible in India with so many languages, ethnic groups, customs, etc.
If you could maybe stop recommending European templates for Indian problems, that'd be great. Your understanding of the world may be limited to viewing the world through a narrow European prism, but it belies the problems that India is facing. We need Indian solutions for Indian problems.
We don't need people looking at Indian problems from the European prism. Modi is not Indian Reagan, Tata Nano is not Indian Ford, ISRO is not Indian NASA and Roti is not flat bread. Roti is Roti, it is not Indian flat bread, it is not flat bread, it is not Indian bread and Ghee is not Indian butter, Ghee is ghee. When you have the courtesy to address it as Roti and Ghee and eat it with your hands, then you may prescribe solutions for our larger problems.