That or it signifies the strength and purity of their race or something . <| sep |> So strange . this seems to happen in China as well . Fyi its also called suicide there as well . <| sep |> If we ' re going to count deaths due to bad economic policies as though they were the same as rounding people up and putting then in death camps the worst offender in history would probably be the British empire . Post independence India would also almost certainly put China in the shade when it comes to excess deaths due to severe poverty , even if you take the highest estimates for China ' s postcommunist famines . Of course India is kind of Schrodinger ' s Economy when it comes to conservative assessments of the 20 th century capitalist when someone is pointing out that they didn ' t have any serious famines after 1943 , socialist when someone is pointing out their sky high excess mortality rate .