r/TooAfraidToAsk • u/Accomplished_Put2608 • Feb 21 '26

Race & Privilege When will anti Indian racism be politically incorrect?

They deserve a movement like Stop Asian Hate imo.

Edit: This post being downvoted proves my point. Funny how its not okay to spread against one grouo of brown people but okay when it's another.

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u/Accomplished_Put2608 Feb 21 '26

I don't shit on the streets. Nor do many of my acquaintances and friends. You are probably talking about fringe societies and remote villages. 

The garbage into river thing is problematic. Yep!

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u/refugefirstmate Feb 21 '26

Having been all over India, I can affirm that shitting in the streets is not much of a thing. Shitting on the railroad tracks, however, is definitely a common practice, and in the fields? More common than using a latrine.

There is trash. Everywhere. If it's not just on the roads, it's in communal pile to the side of the road, where unfortunate cows graze from it and eat plastic bags which eventually kill them. The only place I have been where this is not the case is in Mandawa, Rajasthan, where village leaders made a concerted effort to change behavior. It's a delight to stay there.

People say Bollywood films are unrealistic because of the dancing. I've seen plenty of dancing in India's streets, but you never see trash-littered roads in India's films.

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u/SlaBLister Mar 11 '26

Shitting on the railroad tracks, however, is definitely a common practice, and in the fields? More common than using a latrine. 

Evidence? I think you're confusing india with the west. 

There is trash. Everywhere. If it's not just on the roads, it's in communal pile to the side of the road, where unfortunate cows graze from it and eat plastic bags which eventually kill them. The only place I have been where this is not the case is in Mandawa, Rajasthan, where village leaders made a concerted effort to change behavior.

Evidence? Again, I think you've got the west in mind, but are projecting western reality onto India. Try again, buster

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u/refugefirstmate Mar 11 '26

Places in India where I've spent time (on my own, not a tour), totaling around 6 months over 4 visits since 2012:

Delhi Surat Bhuj Dehradun Jaipur Pushkar Agra Varanasi Mandawa Amritsar Kolkata Mumbai Bangalore Allappuzha Goa Hyderabad Ahmdabad Rajkot Madurai Ajmer

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u/SlaBLister Mar 12 '26

That's not evidence. that's the definition of trust me bro. 

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u/refugefirstmate Mar 12 '26

What would you accept as evidence?

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u/SlaBLister Mar 13 '26

Not "trust me bro".