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Ever been to India? Why do people find it so depressing?
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Anonymous
| Following up on the earlier post here. My dh refuses to go again, says it’s a horrible place and he’s usually open minded. Maybe I’ve seen too many Bollywood films, but it’s always seemed so exotic and charming to me |
Anonymous
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The amount of poverty and classism is alarming.
You are expected just to ignore it and not make eye contact. |
Anonymous
I don’t follow. Not make eye contact? With who? |
Anonymous
| Poor people. |
Anonymous
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Read this:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1220647.page Lots of people mentioned India. |
Anonymous
| Bollywood is not India just as Hollywood is not US. |
Anonymous
| I loved my trip to India. But the level of poverty is a huge culture shock, and some can't take it. Likewise with the caste system (I thought of it as something we'd been taught about in school that was a thing of the past; it certainly is not a thing of the past, and it is horrible). |
Anonymous
Clearly you haven't been to India. |
Anonymous
With anyone staring at you, and they will be staring. The poverty is not remotely similar to the poverty in the US. The amount of people (families) living on the street is shocking. The traffic is shocking (family of four on a motorcycle, with a toddler hanging on to it's mom, and an infant in her lap, etc). |
Anonymous
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I loved my trip to India and would go back in a heartbeat, but it is absolutely overwhelming in many ways.
The poverty is a gut punch, but I also found the sheer humanity a lot to take in. DC felt weirdly uncrowded after that. |
Anonymous
It's not just that the rest of the Indians ignore it; it's more that they think the lower classes are "in their place" and they don't give it a second thought. It is horrible. It's unreconcilable within a rational human brain. |
Anonymous
| I find the treatment of women concerning. Not a place I care to visit. |
Anonymous
I felt the same. Also put on five pounds because I loved the food so much. We got invited into some random people's wedding and just had a wonderful time - but the whole trip was like that; we could go anywhere and next thing we knew we'd be invited to participate in something, and we were at a stage of life then where we always said yes. |
Anonymous
Reading comp?? Op post specifically mentions this earlier post. |
Anonymous
Hence the post, dummy |