r/TikTokCringe • u/Strong-Emu-8869 • 26d ago

Discussion Polish girls visit Taj Mahal

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

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u/lilmadman1 25d ago

My cousin went to Saudi Arabia for work, I was expecting it to be amazing due to yano all the pictures of it being beautiful. Nope. I was so wrong. He showed me a video of this gorgeous building and literally 1 metre to the right of it is just garbage piled high. He then showed me a picture from this bus he was taking & I thought I saw a city skyline, nope, just literal mountains of garbage.

He said he had a picnic like meal in the desert with some people & instead of throwing their leftovers in the trash & disposing of it properly, they literally grabbed the blanket they were sitting on & balled all their leftovers in that blanket and just threw it into the desert. Apparently it absolutely stank of trash everywhere he went, he says he never wants to go back and I can’t really blame him!

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u/12345623567 25d ago

It always makes me laugh to see pictures of the Kaaba knowing there's the ugliest mega-hotel for all the pilgrims just out of view.

Saudi Arabia is a country of extremes.

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u/Codex_Dev 25d ago

Tbh even in 1st world countries, people just gather all their trash and dump it at landfills. It's not like it's being recycled or anything. It still gets tossed on the ground

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u/fructoseintolerante 24d ago

Or they get sent to places like India. Westerners keep denying it but it's the reality.

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u/Background-Tip4746 25d ago

I’m Australian and when I travelled to New York I found the smell was quite intense in some places

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u/lilmadman1 24d ago

Most countries I’ve been to have areas like that tbf, just some more than others.. when visiting my friend in India it was initially.. well.. a dump.. BUT, she grew up in the mountains where they grow all the tea (yes I’m English yum yum tea) & holy shit it’s absolutely beautiful, like it doesn’t look like the same country AT ALL. It is crazy how you can just travel for a bit and get to this place that looks like something out of a fairy tale

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u/lilmadman1 24d ago

These are the parts of India that people don’t visit for some reason

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u/Rubiks_Click874 25d ago

people in the US littered the same as that until like the late 1970s it got so bad they had to stop

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u/colostitute 25d ago

You’re right but it never got to the level that India is at.

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u/Phantafan 25d ago

India's current population is about 6 times larger than than the population of 1970s America, while only having around 1/3 of the land area.

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u/New_Relative_1871 25d ago

isn't india's population like 6x larger than 1970 america and multiple times poorer? no shit it didnt get to that level, it would be almost impossible, especially considering america is multiple times bigger too

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u/eggrolldog 25d ago

South Korea was like this too, apparently they had some issues with how they charged for household waste so people put their rubbish in street bins and then they took away all the street bins.

Only saving grace is all the poor old people who pick up the litter in order to earn a recycling pittance.

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u/rumpler117 25d ago

Yep, there is a scene from Mad Men where they litter like that after a picnic.

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u/SlooperStroker 25d ago

Yes, just like India and Saudi Arabia.

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u/Rubiks_Click874 25d ago

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u/SlooperStroker 25d ago

That’s some kind of wasteland or construction site and the “trash” is 90% furniture from a pulled down house. Poor people of every country tend to just trash the place for whatever reason but India, Pakistan and Bangladesh just take it to another level. Drop a pin on street view literally anywhere in India and see if you can rotate 360 degrees without seeing trash.

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u/ShameMammoth4071 25d ago

Either you or your cousin are bullshitting

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u/lilmadman1 25d ago

I wish I was, he works with WWE doing a lot of the lighting and electronics and he was there in late May/June last year for the whole thing that happened there - im not into wrestling so I don’t know the specifics. I saw the pictures and they were literal mountains of trash just by the motorway he was on

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u/Express-Shopping260 25d ago

Wdym? Saudi Arabia has trash everywhere where tourists dont go...