Evil is never won by evil, just like darkness is not overcome by more darkness. While most, if not all, of what you mentioned about Nepali people are accurate for many, yet just having a negative attitude is not an answer to the problem. Also the issue is not that of Nepal alone, look at all of Nepal's neighbors, look at Africa, Latin America, and middle east, or even America and Europe these days!
I believe that the root cause of the problems you mentioned is spiritual in nature. Though Nepal has a rich history in two of the big religions in the world, namely Hinduism and Buddhism, sadly most people are no more than empty shells. They would much rather offer money to a lifeless statue, but ignore the plight of a begger sitting outside the temple. That's just a simple example. When people tend to please God with empty rituals, then a religion becomes dry and even dead.
I believe that love, selfless and uncondititonal, should be the driving factor in a society in order for that society to prosper, both in the worldly sense and the spiritual sense.
What you mentioned above are the signs of the lack of love. Again the "love" I'm talking about is spiritual love, not sensual love. Love is in the altrustic action, where you help others without any expectation.
If you love your neighbor, then you would want to see them prosper, you would be happy for them, you would rejoice in their success. Jealousy and envy are the signs of the lack of love, and sadly the Nepali society has lost that core neighborly love. Religion, namely Hinduism and Buddhism, have little or no impact in nurturing love in the people. Neighbor doesn't mean the people who live next door to you, in a sense all Nepali people are our neighbor, and even beyond (all people). There is no discrimination in love, in unconditional love.
If you love your neighbor, you wouldn't rape them, you wouldn't steal from them, you wouldn't torture them, or you wouldn't kill them, much rather you would weep with them in their sorrow and rejoice with them in their happiness. You would treat them like you treat your mother, father, sister or brother right now. And sadly that is severely lacking in the Nepali society today. People have become so exclusive where they only seem to care about their immediate family members like parents, brothers and sisters, and over time that bond is also loosened when greed, jealousy, envy, etc. comes into play. Nepali people care to show off lavishly in their son's or daughter's weedling to the point where they fall into debt. They hire big musical band to advertise to the whole society. These are the signs of lack of love, real love. In the Nepali society, people laborously keep their homes clean, but ignore the front pavement (if there is a dedicated pavement for people to walk as most people seem to walk in the street due to lack of pavement or footpath) and even dump their trash in the streets. Now that is not only ignorace, that is callousness or lack of love.
My objective here in writing this is to urge you all to think beyond the problem and delve into the root cause of the issue, so a solution can be seen. It is easy to lose our heart and be negative and call each others name and what not.
Also this is easy said than done. But if you, individually, do what you can by walking in love, by choosing to be positive despite all negativities, then when enough people move in the same direction then you will see some visible changes. Beside we need to do good regardless.
God bless all.
My apology for some spelling/grammar errors!
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