Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?
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Notes -
This post on "izzat" an Indian cultural honor system, went viral recently. I know we have at least a few Indian users here - how accurate is this characterization? Of course it's probably hard to generalize too much given the fragmented nature of India along cultural, linguistic, religious, and ethnic lines.
Here is the text in a non-image format from /r/askindia - the wide range of responses is interesting.
It seems unlikely. Cultures that are truly face-driven have very high rates of violent crime, especially homicide (we can argue about whether it’s sanctioned or unsanctioned, so let’s call it ‘killing’ instead). Two major examples are Central America and urban black America.
India has low homicide rates, and while there is some dubious recordkeeping in some rural districts, it’s not bad enough to obscure hundreds of thousands or millions of honor killings a year. In a society of one and a half billion people where (as the KF OP claims) even an argument about garden ornaments quickly takes on life and death stakes, you would expect a lot more deaths.
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