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[color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]Erin, I’m really glad the internet brought you this way today, for I not only appreciated your comment here, but I also just spent a bit of time perusing your own blog! It’s fascinating to hear about your time in India, and very sobering that you were in Saket when the gang rape occurred. I can only imagine how that must have affected you and your experience. That’s exciting you’ll be heading back in February, though! Will this be another trip for work? I’d love to hear a bit more about it [/size][/font][/color][img]http://www.candaceroserardon.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif[/img]

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[color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]Great post! It is all to easy to make a false judgement about certain nationalities once the media bought attention to a certain story. It is terrible what happened to the girl who was gang-raped, but these kind of things happen in the US, Europe and elsewhere as well. The media doesn’t make such a hype about it though. People shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. It is sad to read that the girl from the US was told not to smile on the streets. I have never been to India but I know loads of Indian men, all of whom are lovely and gentle people.[/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]Thanks so much for your comment, Tammy! I couldn’t agree more with what you said about there being an imbalance in media coverage…rape definitely is something that takes place all around the world, but unfortunately seems to get more attention in places like India. As I tried to write here, my time in India was, on the whole, extremely positive, and I very much hope you’ll get the chance to experience it yourself one day.[/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]YES. Exactly. I’ve been feeling the need to tell a similar story on my own blog. I want people to know that there are a BILLION people in India and every single one of them that I met, men and women, were kind. Thank you for telling this story Candace[/size][/font][/color]

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So glad we’re on the same wavelength here, my friend, as I had a feeling we would be! As you say, I really do feel like it’s important to step back and recognize just how big of a country India is. Terrible things are going to happen there – as they happen here in the US and elsewhere around the world – but I truly believe we can’t let that hold us back, so long as we’re smart and sensible about it.[/size][/font][/color][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]
I’m so glad we were able to experience some of India’s beauty together – let’s get back to Dharamsala again one day, okay? [img]http://www.candaceroserardon.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif[/img][/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]Splendid post and lovely to read such a positive thoughts about India. I have lived in UK and USA where I have heard similar stories happening/happened to some of my British/American friends even in their own country (UK/USA). So, I feel that how media in developed countries trying to single-out India is harsh, bias and completely ignorant. Having said that, I wish some Indian men remember that in India we treat our guests as our own family. I serious hope some of these Indian men learn to treat women with respect. I am sure this is true for some men in all the countries in the world.[/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]Prem, thanks so much for reading the post and saying hello! I loved what you said about treating guests as your own family – time and again, so many people I met in India told me the phrase, “The guest is god.” I especially heard this on train journeys, when I would often be invited to share a meal with someone or offered a cup of chai. This warm sense of hospitality greeted me all over the country, so it’s disheartening to read stories like Michaela’s that paint such a different picture of India.[/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]Great post Candace. Although I got the occasional groping in a crowd, not once did I ever feel threatened either. I certainly don’t condone many of the horrific stories in the news recently and we all know that treatment of women there needs to be improved. However, how many woman are groped or sexually harassed or raped here in the US every day. I read the CNN article thinking “you’d been to India before but you were feeling “assaulted” because they watched you dance? I am for her trauma but feel there is more going on within her that isn’t related to the men of India.[/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]Thanks so much for your comment, Rhonda – it’s great to hear about your own time in India, and how even when more negative things did happen, they didn’t ultimately threaten you. I felt much the same when I was there. Thanks again for taking the time to join in on the conversation! Hope all is well in Portland [/size][/font][/color][img]http://www.candaceroserardon.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif[/img]

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[color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]And now you’re making me cry, my love!! Thank you as always for reading and for your kind words – I know you understand all too well about loving a place, even when there are certain things you don’t necessarily love about it. Miss you heaps, and know that I will be writing back to the 437 emails I owe you SO SOON. xo[/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]Let me start off by quoting “no country or place is safe enough, if it is in your head you would never dare to explore!” So stop thinking, take that trip to wherever you have planned or penned down in your bucket list. We humans have the same mentality be it in any country. It only gets worse or better by many other factors surrounded by that individual. I am an Indian women now settled in US and I can say this because now that I have experienced both worlds. If India has gang rapes and women think it isn’t safe then US too has depressed psyched people carrying arms and killing innocent people. By these we can’t stereo type both countries. The point is you would find such people in any country. Now it is upto you as an individual be a man or women to protect yourself and be sure to make enough friends in and around where you visit to shout for help. I would also say this not only happens to a foreigner visiting that country but also to the women residing in the country. Carry a pepper spray, small pin and learn some karate for defense is all I can say and smile while you do this.[/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]ivya, I really thank you for your insightful and balanced comment, as an Indian woman now living in the States. You actually expressed something that I was close to writing in this post – that generalizing the entire Indian male population could be somewhat equivalent to thinking that many American men behave like James DiMaggio (the man involved in the recent California kidnapping case). It’s important to remember that the stories that make the news are so often very extreme cases, and you’re also right in that we have to take the necessary steps to protect ourselves. Thanks again for sharing all of that, Divya![/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]ivya, I really thank you for your insightful and balanced comment, as an Indian woman now living in the States. You actually expressed something that I was close to writing in this post – that generalizing the entire Indian male population could be somewhat equivalent to thinking that many American men behave like James DiMaggio (the man involved in the recent California kidnapping case). It’s important to remember that the stories that make the news are so often very extreme cases, and you’re also right in that we have to take the necessary steps to protect ourselves. Thanks again for sharing all of that, Divya![/size][/font][/color]