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by unmole 1531 days ago
> if you don't speak the native language, you will be at a significant disadvantage when requiring the assistance of police.

This is true true virtually everywhere in the world.

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> This is true true virtually everywhere in the world.

you don't expect it in your OWN country, just moving to a different state, you are an outsider. Its because India was put together just like that, because the British ruled over many peoples and their languages.

> you don't expect it in your OWN country

Which country apart from Papua New Guinea has the linguistic diversity comparable to India? Migrants everywhere understand the need to learn the local language. It's only the Hindi speakers, high on the delusions of national language that see this as a problem.

> Its because India was put together just like that, because the British ruled over many peoples and their languages.

Right, because India didn't have any multilingual polities before the British?

India is not really comparable to other nation-states. India is one of the few extant examples of a multinational state.