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The people who see a wrong India map, in international circles or online and then screech India map wrong saar, is genuinely pathetic to watch. It’s like a toddler crying after his sibling gets more food than him. It’s shameful to not accept reality of what’s controlled by which government and just screech about the map it makes you look like a complete idiot. I remember this video made by some guy on ISROs achievements and Jeets began sending the guy death threats over a single frame of the map being wrong. It’s not tough, it’s just subhuman. Sure you can claim what you want. But I’ve never seen Chinese seething over Taiwan being depicted as independent on a map. I think Indians have a fundamental misunderstanding of what soft power is. Soft power is not “we say something online and you do it”, it is not direct power where someone barks an order and other party follows suit. Soft power is a much more subtle thing; it is an exportation and foreign consumption of media from the perspective of your country and nation. As an example, we’ll take American soft power; I.e Hollywood, Comics, etc. All of these shows feature an American perspective. Due to the familiarity of such perspectives and the American people, the civilians of most countries are not all that opposed to having American military bases on their soil, which is why America has so many military bases without widespread civilian rage at it. It is a very subtle mechanism. On the other hand, the Indian, from birth kind of gets the idea that “If I want to get X, I need to holler and claw and grab X” you can see kids throwing tantrums and getting what they want, various people hollering at other for offending religious sensibilities, and shouting at the government which gets the offender in some sort of trouble with the government. Even whatever poltical goals the masses try to get, are accomplished in this direct manner, shouting and directly putting attention on the authorities, “We want this!”, the collective voices of the masses impossible to ignore by the government. The average Indian kind of gets the idea that power, is essentially the capability for one to request an authority to act out something. The issue then comes, when an Indian steps on the global internet, they don’t really have an authority to appeal to. And in every other instance within India, if the Indian appeals hard enough or with significant masses backing them, authority will eventually be forced to bow down. Indians don’t understand that there is no authority to appeal to here, and following their past experiences, just shout holler threaten and bicker louder and louder and for no avail, in greater and greater numbers just making a mockery of themselves.