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From Xitter:
Chaalaki is a concept in Indian culture that roughly translates to shrewd “cleverness.” It often refers to the ability to create the appearance of hard work while actually doing very little.
Pleasing superiors, gaining admiration from an audience, and perhaps even developing a reputation as a “hard worker” while minimizing or avoiding real work entirely - that’s chaalaki, and it’s considered a morally ambiguous, if begrudgingly respected, form of system scamming.
I am convinced that Indians gravitate towards cringe LinkedIn “hustle culture” and “founder culture” precisely because it’s basically a chaalaki Olympics.
It’s not about doing actual work, delivering results, or adding real value. It’s about creating the ILLUSION of being busy, important, or successful while not really doing anything.
Taking photos of yourself pattering away at your laptop, pretending to look stressed or busy, captioning it with some cringe bullshit about how you grind 19 hours a day, all while not having a single functional deliverable that warrants any of that… chaalaki.
Anyone who has worked with an Indian or even just seen an Indian working has probably experienced or witnessed some degree of chaalaki at play.
The Indian employee is always visible, attentive, and always APPEARS to be doing something… but closer scrutiny quickly raises the question of what, exactly, they are doing or what they’ve achieved.
The results they do produce, after what seems to be an incredible amount of effort, tend to be incomplete, irrelevant, or littered with issues others then have to step in to fix.
Why? Because no effort was exerted at all. It was just an illusion. A minstrel show of what they think effort looks like to cultivate the correct external signals.
Not just in the workplace, universities are where Indians really refine their chaalaki. As students, they APPEAR to constantly be studying, but their education is limited to memorizing patterns rather than developing genuine understanding. So their grades are good and they have the appearance of being well-educated, but in reality they have learned exceedingly little.
At its best, chaalaki is a form of optics-managed incompetence.
At its worst, it promotes the ideal conditions for scamming, lying, cutting corners, or cheating to maintain the illusion of competence or effort while minimizing the need for any real hard work.
This is an alien concept to the vast majority of the world, where hard work is considered a virtue, and only actual results (as opposed to the appearance of results) are praised.
With chaalaki, the longer or further you can go while doing as little as possible - the more clever you must be.
Combine izzat and chaalaki and you now have a pretty good understanding of why India is the way it is."
I'm starting to become convinced of something. Europe has lower rates of unique allele mutations than other human races/ethnicities, and it's because they are shared with India. Due to the Aryan invasion, a lot of Europe specific genetic mutations are also found in Indian people, but at far far far lower rates, because the Nordic Aryan admixture (which in its pure form is more Nordic than any Northern European alive today) has been so diluted by Jeet blood it barely registers. What this, I think, results in, is Indians who have some elements of White European psychology, exploratoriness inventiveness etcetera, but none of the mental machinery to back it up and none of the neurobehavioural traits in order to effectively ground it in civilised society. So you have Indians who LARP as competent but can't actually perform because they have Andamanese pygmy ape DNA, or Indians who have concepts of honour but no concept of personal responsibility. To make a gamer analogy it's like the Indian brain is a PC build that has some modern PC parts like maybe some good White European RAM or CPU but it's been affixed to a dogshit motherboard without a heat sink and a terrible graphics card with poor quality ventilation, and its HDMI cables aren't even plugged into the graphics card.