@Bluegazer, this is useful though I see Grok is running away a little bit with pattern recognition.
Izzat translates to honour in english although what matters is the way its practiced and applied in the daily life. I was born in India and have lived there for 18-19 years before emigrating. I felt quite similar to that author in the Zerohedge article and was often singled out for thinking differently to the entire world.
From my observation and lived experiences, the root cause primarily stems from the caste system which has created and maintained a pseudo-geographical division between the masses. Basically, you will have different caste of people living in the same neighbourhood or postcode and visiting their homes will feel like crossing into another state. And this co-habitation also adds fuel to the growing resentment towards each other. It is understood and accepted norm that the streets are meant to be cleaned by the downtrodden or the scheduled castes. The scheduled castes can be considered as the poorest of people and closer to the naked tribes roaming the jungles; onlt they don't anymore and have helped themsevles to mud-houses with straw roofs. This is why the middle and the higher Indian classes, to whom the western countries and their populace are exposed to, discover that the former are serial litterers and have very littel consideration for common good. This western reaction is a surprise to the Indians who are used to living in a certain way because it would be dishonourable for them to stoop to the levels of cleaning the streets.
Now, a lot of the professional Indians with good education, who have emigrated, do take care to not litter and have somewhat better moral values but that's a minority because I notice the majority immigration is from a poorer background by exploiting the systemic loopholes. They are clowns back home and they are clowns away from home too. I see them everywhere on the streets and in houses nearby and I'd say that send them back right away as they will never integrate with the western society and its good Christian values.
Now, if you consider rapes etc, those have always been the norm in Indian subcontinent and go back thousands of years. But, then, this could be considered a normal thing in most places and cultures which were not reformed by the Christianity. The caste system, exacerbates the problem whereby raping a lower caste's girl is par for the course and a just punishment for some minor infringement. In some cases, it would even be accepted by the girl's father as a just thing due to their status and lack of upward mobility. The girl is a disposable unit and could suffer this much to protect the father. The caste system was/is extemely rigid. In other cases, rape was done to take revenge from a competing caste or faction. There were rapes a plenty during the India/Pakistan partition crisis and all of them hold a terrible memory of that era, being kept alive by the power of social media where Hindus and Muslims engage freely.
Most of the Indian religions, Hindu being the mainstream now, have formed around the do's and don't of the caste system and their purveyors. Everything else flows from it naturally as shit flows.
I have to run but will write more on this when time permits.
