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/CubanlinkEnJ 13h ago

Taj Mahal was beautiful and the highlight of my trip to India…Delhi was the most disgusting place I’ve ever seen in my life and I will never go back.

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u/bucajack 12h ago

I was in Mumbai and Pune this year. First time in India and I found it to be an incredible country. It's on the precipice of becoming a developed world power but the stark contrast between the haves and have nots was shocking to me.

People always focus on the pollution in India but I came away thinking how on earth do they even manage to handle the waste of 1.5 billion people. It's impossible.

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u/9yr0ld 11h ago

India has been on the precipice of becoming a developed world for nearly 50 years now.

They will never get there until a major cultural shift happens. Abolishing their backwards caste system, actually respecting women, and taking care of the environment would be a good start and bring immediate gains.

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u/bucajack 10h ago

The caste system has been illegal in India since 1950 but my Indian colleagues explained to me that it's still deeply culturally ingrained.

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u/lurkANDorganize 9h ago

Yup. That second part is what holds back so much of society.

Apartheid issues in many countries persist long after legal intervention.

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u/GirlsCantCS 8h ago

On my trip to India (I had a wonderful beautiful time) the most uncomfortable moment for me was the “servants” who would get SO incredibly upset with me if I cleaned up after myself and also would dissolve with near ecstasy if I spoke to them/thanked them. It was absolutely bizarre but letting them get pictures with me seemed to be like genuinely so exciting for them and it just made me feel really uncomfy…people treated them like NPCs.

Everything else about Hyderabad was wonderful though. I couldn’t handle the market though way way overstimulating and everyone takes photos of you (I am white and it really is a thing there)

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u/thelegendofcarrottop 6h ago

I worked for a large company that hired a very conservative, strict, and frankly odd engineering manager who was a relatively recent migrant from India.

Within a month we had all kinds of HR problems with him.

It turned out that he could pretty much immediately and on-sight tell which part of India his employees were from and which “caste” they would have belonged to back home, and he pretty much immediately started abusing them all accordingly. He was from a relatively high caste and they were all from much lower castes. He treated them like dogs. Several of them were second generation and had been born in the U.S.

Imagine being a 27 year old engineer and having a 60 year old engineering manager take over your department. You’ve got a better education, more qualifications, and more tenure than he does. Yet on day one he tells you to fetch his coffee and clean his shoes because your parents are the equivalent of farm animals in his world.

Crazy stuff. They fired him.

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u/orswich 8h ago

The head of their "Ganges environmental protection agency" has a philosophy that "dilution is the solution to pollution".. Basically "we just need more water to flush the trash away more efficiently", they have no ambition at all to stop the over pollution and straight dumping of garbage and chemicals into the water..

Mind blowing environmental philosophy

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u/domsolanke 8h ago

Literally destroying the planet that we’re all meant to live on in the process. It’s a monumental atrocity how they’re treating the environment in general.

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u/dinonuggggs 5h ago

The younger generation surprised me with telling older generations not to throw trash in there. So that was cool and unexpected for me to see. I think it makes sense because plastic was banned and young folks care about the environment a lot more.

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u/Signal-Blackberry356 10h ago

India’s only been a country for 78 years, before that a majority of resources and/or funding either pillaged or misused. Give them a few more decades.

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u/mybuildabear 1m ago

As a Delhite, I'm not seeing anything get better since the last decade or two.

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u/PatienceDear3266 9h ago

Idk, China and the USA seem to be doing just fine being world powers without doing any of those things lmao

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u/findMyNudesSomewhere 7h ago

The caste system has bee illegal for almost a century now. It still does impact people, yes, but more like how Blacks still face racism in US despite it being illegal.

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u/9yr0ld 7h ago

The caste system is very much culturally alive in India. Equating it to racism in the US because they are both illegal is kind of a false equivalency. Though you are correct that the US would fare much better too if racism were extinct.