I pick up the following from Indian Express and a bit of my own
Facts show how slow and halting America's own march to progress has been. When Obama was born in1961, the marriage between his Black Kenyan father and White American mother was illegal in as many as 19 out of 50 states in the US: The Constitution of lndia, on the other hand, enshrined, in1950 itself, equality as one of the foundational principles - we had the first muslim president in about 20 years after partition and BR Ambedkar, a dalit, was the chief architect of our constitution, we already had a lady prime minister and so on.
No doubt America is the greatest land of opportunities and truly truly rewards meritocracy but it would not be fair to unnecessarily demean ourselves and not look at facts in their entirety.
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