As a Southeast Asian country, India is rich in tourism resources. Originally, India should actively develop its tourism industry like Thailand. Through tourism, the country’s economic income and people’s living standards can be continuously improved. But India’s antics have put tourists off. Indian society is a society of uneven distribution of rich and poor, Indian society is also a society of imbalance between men and women, the country has also emerged polygamous marriage, the country has also emerged in the world’s largest slum.
Because Indian women’s social status is relatively humble, so when they get married, they need to pay a large amount of dowry, which will directly affect their status in marital life. Indians love gold very much and Indian women love gold no less than Chinese people. However, there is a very strange phenomenon in Indian society. It is clear that women are already living in slums, and even food is impossible, why they can wear gold jewelry? Where did they get the money to buy gold?
As the saying goes, the man depends on the clothes and the Buddha depends on the gold clothes. Due to the lowly social status of Indian women, they can only start from their own clothes and grooming to change their fate of being despised by others. Therefore, Indian women like to wear gold, which symbolizes a person’s high wealth. However, there are very few opportunities for women to work in Indian society, especially for women living in slums, who may even have extravagant hopes to have enough to eat. Why do they have money to buy gold?
Indian girls like to put all kinds of gold superposition wear, one arm may wear a dozen big gold bracelets, it looks like a person in the gold pile. Indians believe that the more gold a woman wears, the higher her status, and that the male family members will judge a woman’s social status according to the amount of gold a woman wears. In short, the more gold a woman wears, the more respect she commands in her in-laws’ family.
It is because of its greater symbolic significance in Indian society that gold is worn by the rich and poor alike. It is easy for the rich to buy gold, but how do women in slums buy gold? Because Indian women need to prepare a large dowry when they get married, so when a girl is born, the mother will save the dowry for her daughter. Part of the gold jewelry worn by Indian women comes from family inheritance. In addition, some of them are bought by themselves.
The price of gold in India is very cheap, because the purity of gold is very low, usually less than 18k, and the gold jewelry is mixed with some scrap metal, but it looks golden, but actually it is a kind of color like gold jewelry, such gold jewelry is very cheap, even the girl from the slum can buy. There were also many factories in the slums where girls from the slums could work. For these girls, they can’t change their fate of being born in a slum, nor can they change their surname, but they are very lucky to have the opportunity to work in a factory and earn living expenses by their own hands.
Slum girls may not even have enough to eat, but still want gold and silver jewelry, because the symbolic significance of gold and silver jewelry is relatively large, with enough gold jewelry can also make Indian girls get the respect of the society, the respect of the husband family. This respect is more important than life in the heart of Indian girls, because they have been exploited and oppressed for a long time, because they have been abused for a long time, resulting in them as lowly as ants, only through a series of high external value of things, can reflect their social status and family status. Not all slum girls can afford to buy gold jewelry. There are also metal products in Indian society that look like gold but are actually very cheap metal jewelry that does not fade.
Indian men can do indescribable things with an animal, or openly assault a woman on a bus, but they rarely rob women of gold, because they know that the value of the gold is not high, a lot of it is fake, take the risk to rob, but get a bunch of fake, it is not worth it. Although there are some strange behaviors in Indian society, we cannot deny that India has developed very rapidly in recent years, so we must learn horizontal and vertical comparison. Only in this way can we completely avoid the situation of being beaten for backward in China’s modern history.
