• squaresinger@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    India has the same population as all of Europe, all of North America and all of Russia combined.

    Tally up the rapes of these two continents and that massive country, and you’ll likely get similar numbers of reports.

    It’s a classic case of “by country is not by capita”.

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      6 days ago

      No you won’t. It’s significantly higher in the subcontinent, and those are the 10% that actually make it to the news. We tend to cling pretty hard to the “women are property” idea around these parts, unfortunately