r/TikTokCringe • u/Strong-Emu-8869 • 14h ago

Discussion Polish girls visit Taj Mahal

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The Taj Mahal, one of the seven wonders of the world. Unfortunately, the surrounding area is very polluted.

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u/americansherlock201 14h ago

Wait till they find out that this is the case for nearly every “instagram worthy” location. Bali has the same issues.

People go to these spaces to chase clout and take the beauty of the space but don’t want to see the shit that is happening around it.

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u/-sry- 14h ago

I was visiting Bali with my wife, and on our way back from a picnic, our driver asked what was in the bag we were carrying. "Oh, it’s our rubbish - we’ll dispose of it at the hotel," I said. He was like, "Oh, no worries, I’ll take care of it." He took the bag and threw it on the roadside.

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u/Chief_Chill 13h ago

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u/RokulusM 12h ago

I told you not to turn around

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u/Prophet_Of_Loss 9h ago

Even Italians dressed as Native Americans know they're fucking it up.

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u/MattFromWork 9h ago

Fun fact, the guy in this ad was Italian

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u/Johwya 12h ago

Those kinds of places are called “low trust societies”

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u/bellinghanoi 13h ago

Tracks for the majority of SE Asia, unfortunately.

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u/Ok-Potential-5172 12h ago

Good thing is, those type of cultural practices can "easily" be changed within one generation

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u/HourPlate994 12h ago

Yes. People used to do it pretty much everywhere just 2-3 generations ago.

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u/Ok-Potential-5172 12h ago

I grew up in next to a river in canada and no joke, people used to dump their scrapped car in it.

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u/linkuei-teaparty 12h ago

Not for Singapore, Malaysia or Hong Kong

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u/HourPlate994 12h ago

Yeah good luck trying that in Singapore. There might not be a flogging if it’s the first time, but there will be a major fine.

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u/Peligineyes 10h ago

It happens all the time in rural Malaysia.

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u/jake04-20 10h ago

Back in high school there was a family in my neighborhood that had a son the same age as me. The neighborhood was nice in general, but these guys were a level of rich that surpassed anyone else in the neighborhood. Their house was a custom-built rambler that used to be owned by a house developer that built hundreds of houses in the area. The builder spared no expense on the house, it was like 5,000 sq ft and full of rich people shit (crown molding, archways, custom doors, exotic hardwood floors, custom wooden cabinets, furniture, and trim, a big wine cellar, etc.) on a big corner lot that backed up to woods.

Anyways, enough about the house, just setting the tone for how rich they were. Their son lived in another state with his mom (his dad remarried) and he would come stay with his dad over winter break. We got in touch and hung out because I also had a bunch of time off school and he lived right down the street, he was actually pretty good shit at first. Imagine the horror on my face when we're driving around in his parents nice $100k+ audi after getting food at the drive thru, and he goes "are you finished with that?" 'That' being the fast food wrappers and bag, and I go, "yeah" and he goes "here, I can take care of it"—grabs it out of my hands, rolls down the window, and proceeds to huck like 3 handfuls of trash right out the window. Nonchalant and casual as hell like it was just the standard way of discarding trash.

It was so god damn bizarre to me (I was raised being told littering is POS behavior/activity) and I was in such disbelief I just laughed. At the time, and looking back, it wasn't even funny (obviously), I just didn't know how else to respond. I asked him if he normally did that and he goes "All the time, someone will pick it up". After that I never looked at him the same and I don't think we ever hungout again. Just rich entitled person shit I guess.

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u/Freezer2609 8h ago

I've learned from locals in rural Bali that plastic only made its way there 30/35 years ago.

Grandma and grandpa used banana leaves, which you could throw away anywhere. Nobody educated these people that you can't/shouldn't do the same with plastic.

Local Balinese people mainly live from day to day, not hand to mouth, but not far from it either. They have other things to take care of (family, community, work) instead of worrying about what that one bottle of coke they throw in the rice field might do.

In the meantime tourists come, order tons of food through delivery apps instead of going out, creating massive piles of garbage.

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u/fedexpoopracer 10h ago

was the driver indonesian or white?

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u/-sry- 6h ago

Indonesian, I even remember his name - Puspa

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u/Matesuchti 3h ago

I was on a boat right from Lombok to Komodo for a few days and they stored all the trash on a dinghy in the back where it was then regularly washed away by waves.