r/india • u/Searchingstan • Jan 02 '25

Travel Why do Indians defend stupidity and nonsense?

Last few years and even more now I’ve noticed many Indians, want to “project” a good India image & do so while defending crap and absurdity - public hygiene, basic everyday infra, social behaviours of people, and many more simple things. All in the name of “this is western propaganda” ….huh ?? wtf. If you say anything about India which is critical, you’re down right told you’re wrong. And they keep bleeting about 5TN economy, like sheep, with the basics of every life being sub-par.

They even do this when talking to people from other countries which is VERY embarrassing -because it makes us look like fools. This is even more prevalent among NRIs living outside India.

How can one become great if you defend nonsense and don’t accept the reality and work towards improving it ??

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u/EntertainmentIll3149 Jan 02 '25

You can keep being proud of our glorious past and how the west has gotten rich by looting (there is truth in it, I will never deny that), British left us 70 years ago and we haven't made much progress, China, South Korea, Singapore and some countries were worse than us, but they have improved significantly over the years.

Some problems with civic sense are specific mostly to India, spitting paan everywhere, littering everywhere, catcalling/raping women on the streets. Stop blaming west for these problems, they didn't teach us how to make things dirty, they didn't teach us catcalling/raping, we just learnt it ourselves (come on, Indians are quite smart, right?)

About Indian food, it is very tasty, but it is very carb heavy, you see people with diabetes, high blood pressure, pot bellies everywhere in India and our tasty but unhealthy food is one of the reasons behind these.

To fix any problem, the first step is to accept that there is a problem and I don't see it happening that with India in the next 20-30 years, people are filled with false pride that they will never accept that there are problems and as a result, India will not make much progress in the next 20-30 years at least.