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I think of India as a magical place to visit. As a female, however, there is no way I could go there. Lately there is too much bad pr. The village may decide Im out too late or dating the wrong person so I must be violently raped.

think she's in Nottellingu, CA its rite by Cheleft, OR I've been there It's really nice.

Okay.... India and the Middle East (particularly the part India sits on top of) is sort of like South America and Brazil. India is in the same place as a lot of middle eastern and far eastern countries but has it's own culture. Like South America was mostly colonized by Spain (hence the spanish) and Brazil was colonized by Portugal (hence the wacky version of Portuguese), the middle east was mostly colonized by France (they speak a couple different regional dialects of Arabic), England had India (Has a bunch of dialects all of which derive from Sanskrit or earlier forms of Hindi). Culturally they're different, legally their different and when it comes to mentality (we're talking social, general societal collective of both north and south India, as well as even education levels creating them) it's different too.

You'd have a decent time if you were in the more metropolitan areas. Think of it like here in the states with racism. Generally you're going to get the "chiller and less
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I think of India as a magical place to visit. As a female, however, there is no way I could go there. Lately there is too much bad pr. The village may decide Im out too late or dating the wrong person so I must be violently raped.

I went to Pune for two weeks and never felt un-safe.

how ur two weeks spended

Okay.... India and the Middle East (particularly the part India sits on top of) is sort of like South America and Brazil. India is in the same place as a lot of middle eastern and far eastern countries but has it's own culture. Like South America was mostly colonized by Spain (hence the spanish) and Brazil was colonized by Portugal (hence the wacky version of Portuguese), the middle east was mostly colonized by France (they speak a couple different regional dialects of Arabic), England had India (Has a bunch of dialects all of which derive from Sanskrit or earlier forms of Hindi). Culturally they're different, legally their different and when it comes to mentality (we're talking social, general societal collective of both north and south India, as well as even education levels creating them) it's different too.

You'd have a decent time if you were in the more metropolitan areas. Think of it like here in the states with racism. Generally you're going to get the "chiller and less racially ignorant" in major cities and urban areas. If you end up going into the backwater and more homogenous areas culturally, you're going to get more crap for being an outsider. So if you stick to touristy places, you should be in good shape. Thanks to England's colonialism/the British Empire, a decent sized portion of the country (particularly in the major cities) will speak English too.
You also have India being a lot more humane when it comes to "who's got what gender?" in comparison to the rest of the region as well. True, there are remnants of the cast system but that isn't the same thing and is mostly just upheld by the needlessly traditional stickler houses. So if your fam was Brahman caste forever ago, you'll hold onto it for ego and may be ***** about it socially. India is not Afghanistan, Pakistan (Well not anymore really) or Iran.
A lot of what's been going on in India specifically has been about people fighting things like monsanto, other corporations and their government allowing them to "buy into them more" than it's been about "anything to do with gender in society". It's also been about fighting the corporate powers in India since they've been having similar versions of "Neo-Feudalism" (What capitalism turns into) popping up more and more there too. You're also not hearing about that as much due to monsanto (as well as the rest of corporate america) being major "buy in contributors" to both Dems & GOP. You seeing "another culture fighting it in ways that're culturally acceptable there" can potentially be "bad for business" so that's why the gender stuff was being pushed for a bit. Thankfully, India did manage to get a ban on GMO crops. (Note: If you saw anything in BBC World News in regard to gender based BS, the UK and the US have been "privatized banking", "Int'l corporation buddies" and "war buddies" for a while so they'll dish compatible news out to the public.)