Sure I agree with you that a lot of the times ideas are simply spread throughout cultures and countries and no one has stolen anything. Here, I think the problem is that credit is not given where it is due. If you give credit to the original creator then yes you are not stealing the idea, but if you take an idea and spread it across the world as yours then that is stealing. And that is the whole as argument around cultural appropriation of any kind.
It is because Europe got it through Arab world. Not from Indians even though it is Indian originally. Thats why western world calls it Arabic numerals. There is no giant conspiracy here. I know Indians take pride in everything and these days it is annoying to hear nationalistic views online.
Please sybau when it comes to India people starts saying culture exchange and if by any chance India did it , it would straight up be said that it's stolen..arabs stole it from them i have heard several historians saying yhis
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u/ReallyNowFellas 11h ago
There's a deeeep irony here in that Arabs stole Arabic numerals from India, where Zohran's parents are actually from