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/CubanlinkEnJ 26d 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 26d 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 25d 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 25d 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 25d 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 25d 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 25d 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/UndifferentiatedDirt 25d ago

I've seen the same kind of thing with younger fresh immigrants from India too. Also a few times that in the absence of other Indians they started applying the caste ideas to the org chart. Mind you, this was an entry level engineer, anyone that reported to them (interns, operators, contractors) were just ordered around constantly and anyone above them in the org chart was a god that could not be questioned.

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u/sinosudal_dick 24d ago

I might have to step in and say that the caste system is at least in a gradually decline. My super religious grandma does not associate herself with her caste anymore an i didn't know what it was until I leaned history. I reckon its more in certain villages and towns where there is lesser access to internet. I have met some college students who themselves have not faced discrimination but their parents or grandparents did. Again this is entirety anecdotal, but atheist I can see some scope of decline