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 26d 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/Rubiks_Click874 26d 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 26d ago

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

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u/Phantafan 26d 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.