The Indian capacity for self deception, even conscious self deception, is indeed far greater than east Asian capacity for the same. This is a cultural artifact that probably have much to do with religions, how deeply rooted they are, and how they developed over time. East Asians are overwhelmingly (there are temples churches mosques and shrines but such a small % of people engage and dominate their lives with it) more agnostic or even atheist if not at least holding only very personal and private (not shared) beliefs. But real world stuff is culturally rooted in reality and there is strong separation between beliefs and real world actions, decision making etc. When it comes to superstitions though, this is still rampant in all of east Asia including Japan. Not even the Communist Chinese managed to rid China of this despite effort. I mean I bet plenty of CPC members in real leadership positions are themselves superstitious to some degree.
However there is a difference between allowing superstition and in India's case, even encouraging intense levels of self deception. Those forums are near useless unless you just want to keep up to date with Indian military projects for which it is useful indeed. Basically anything away from cultural identities, race-ethnicity, and politics, it's okayish albeit with sprinklings of ridiculousness like as soon as they see some project announced in its infancy, it's immediately the greatest and will boost India to the top of the world and as soon as they see even plastic models displayed or in "initial concept trials" like cheap laser modules they buy from Aliexpress or RC planes like Ghatak "prototype", they consider it nearly ready to devastate the enemy. Compare it to this forum where most are Chinese, there is nowhere near that level of self assuredness until things are actually shown in service (which is already far more "Chinese" in character and we rarely see anything in development when they've probably been since 20 years before they're seen). There's also far more doubt and skepticism on this forum or at least nowhere near Indian levels of immediate and absolute celebratory intensity for every small model or prototype.
I mean India fires a Brahmos test and these members go into heat calling this the best missile in the world despite being 30 odd years old and rejected by even 1990s China when it was offered. China tests hypersonic cruise missiles and HGVs carried by boosters, photos shown of impact accuracy, US state reports on it and reputable third parties produce literature on such things and we get maybe 10 members commenting with even less enthusiasm as India simply test firing a "new air launched" Brahmos "development". Indeed there are plenty and plenty of very sane and intelligent Indians... even in India still. But the voices online are dominated by the village idiot equivalent. The variety and caliber of people similar to actually extremist and uneducated people in China back during the warring period/Civil war and revolution era. Under or completely uneducated, misinformed, brainwashed, and deluded. The difference is those Chinese people of that era took their labour towards building and doing whereas the equivalent generations of Indian take their efforts to the internet to talk shit while their government tries every effort to win elections and do nothing much in the way of genuine progress. India has been stagnating for the last 20 years... pretty much every big picture metric proves this two times over and over the span of decades.
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