摘要：
    印度拉贾斯坦邦目前使用的中学教科书存在问题，非常不恰当地将“老婆比作毛驴”，认为毛驴比老婆抱怨少，且对主人更忠诚，这种比喻引起人们的谴责要求将其从书中删除。
    A textbook used at schools in the Indian state of Rajasthan compares housewives to donkeys, and suggests the animals make better companions as they complain less and are more loyal to their "masters," The Times of India reported Tuesday.

    印度拉贾斯坦邦目前使用的中学教科书存在问题，非常不恰当地将“老婆比作毛驴”，认为毛驴比老婆抱怨少，且对主人更忠诚，这种比喻引起人们的谴责要求将其从书中删除。

    据路透社4月4日援引《印度时报》的报道说，在印度拉贾斯坦邦14岁学生的北印度语初级课本里有这样一段话：“毛驴就像一个家庭主妇……事实上，毛驴更讨人喜爱，你的老婆可能会时常抱怨连天，且动不动就扔下你回娘家，但你永远找不出你的驴对你有不忠的地方。”

    这本教科书曾经被拉贾斯坦邦印度人民党政府正式审核通过，但该书还是引起了该党女党员的强烈反对。拉贾斯坦邦教育部门官员指出，人们不应该受这个比喻句的影响。该官员指出：“这个比喻很幽默，但已经引起反对者的重视并试图将它从课本中删除掉。”

    据悉，在拉贾斯坦邦，人们对女性的态度问题一直倍受争议。

    A textbook used at schools in the Indian state of Rajasthan compares housewives to donkeys, and suggests the animals make better companions as they complain less and are more loyal to their "masters," The Times of India reported Tuesday.

    "A donkey is like a housewife ... In fact, the donkey is a shade better, for while the housewife may sometimes complain and walk off to her parents' home, you'll never catch the donkey being disloyal to his master," the newspaper reported, quoting a Hindi-language primer meant for 14-year-olds.

    The book was approved by the state's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party government but has sparked protests from the party's women's wing.

    State education officials in Rajasthan, a western state known for its conservative attitude toward women, said people should not be upset by the comparison, the paper said.

    "The comparison was made in good humor," state education official A.R. Khan was quoted as saying. "However, protests have been taken note of and the board is in the process of removing it (the reference)."

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