PLEASE READ: "The joy that most well-to-do Nepalis take in others' misfortune/bad-luck appears to some deep evolutionary hunger for survival." AS "The joy that most well-to-do Nepalis take in others' misfortune/bad-luck appears to serve some deep evolutionarily motivated hunger for survival. TRY THIS EXPERIMENT AT HOME: In a room of full of Nepalis, start criticizing somebody who is NOT there in the room, and then sit back and watch how everyone else joins in the collective bashing of that absent person often with NO shred of evidence. Watch how no one ever rises to defend the absent person." oohi ashu