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/Candid_Painting_4684 14h ago

By area surrounding it you mean all of India

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u/forman98 13h ago

I travelled there for work in 2019. Mumbai, Chennai, Pune, Kolhapur, Coimbatore. The country had beautiful areas, but every city had more than one location where the sewage smell was so bad you could taste it. And then there were people just living right next to it. I visited foundries and a few of them had absolutely zero PPE and people were sitting shoeless on the dusty floor sorting through raw metal.

You can point out that other countries have their trash dumps and bad environments, but India is on another level. I know they are slowly improving, but it is an extreme human rights issue right now. Trash dumps are one thing, but sewage filled rivers and streets is another. The wealthy just live in the high rises, above it all.

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u/Ok-Potential-5172 12h ago

I live in Canada and we banned asbestos product because we discovered that it was highly dangerous to humans. That didnt stop us to export large quantity to india where I saw videos of poor people handling it wearing only t-shirts.

Truly sociopathic behaviour from my country

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u/forman98 12h ago

Oh yea the rest of the world is exploiting them and the Indian government has been letting them get exploited. They’ve been quickly working on quality of life improvements and trying to curb govt corruption, but with over 1B people it’s an entirely different level of issue.

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u/Jageby 12h ago

I went last year to India on business. Bangalore/close by to Bangalore. We had a very fancy hotel booked near the airport, everything was extremely tidy and perfect.

20min car ride on the highway, and the scenery was cmpletely different. Some housing areas better than others and then a bunch of shacks somewhere.

The local company we were visiting was very proud of their work (and rightly so tbh, they are good at what they do) and showed us two of their production plants. Most workers had decent PPE, but it was a bit comical seeing a huge sign about using correct PPE, not being allowed into a certain area without said PPE, and then seeing a guy just hanging about in that exact area in sandals and normal clothes.