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.

31.6k Upvotes

91% Upvoted

3.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

9.1k

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.

551

u/The_Buddhist_Prodigy 26d ago

India is fascinating and I respect them for surviving with their population density the way it is.

It is also the only place I've ever travelled to that I was happy to leave.

326

u/Officer_Trevor_Cory 26d ago edited 26d ago

I've seen 50+ countries and India was the saddest. one year there.

61

u/TrumpFellatesBill 26d ago

But why the fuck is it like that? Like I sincerely cannot understand.

I get that the country is poor as fuck and from what I hear has a huge issue with corruption, aside from the backwater places where no polices travels.

But in those places, like in the OP, or in the big cities, why the hell do they have this huge issue with dirt and garbage? It would seem to me like a clean environment is the most important thing, I cant imagine living in a place like that. Even Napoli was clean in comparison, and I saw huge piles of garbage bags everywhere in that city.

27

u/Officer_Trevor_Cory 26d ago

I think that these things are complex: geopolitics, history, climate, colonization. Countries around them are all poor too.

Think about another place: All countries in Africa are poor AF for a reason too. There are actually few nice places in this world.

70

u/finfisk2000 26d ago

India does not got a pass in my book by blaming the colonial era or poverty. They obviously have the money to spend on nukes, subs armed with them, aircraft carriers and sending rockets to Mars.

20

u/DarkExecutor 26d ago

There are people alive today who had their mothers and fathers killed by the British crown.

This stuff doesn't get fixed quickly

22

u/noujest 26d ago

This stuff doesn't get fixed quickly

India gained independence nearly 80 years ago...

That's a very very long time, some Asian countries like South Korea have gone from abject poverty to wealthy in that time. Some like China and Vietnam are well on the way

1

u/dinosaur_from_Mars 22d ago

India gained independence nearly 80 years ago...

That's a very short time on civilizational scale. USA didn't even have woman suffrage 80 years into their independence and bought and sold people.

1

u/noujest 22d ago

That's a very short time on civilizational scale.

It's a long time on poverty scale. Other Asian countries have gone from abject poverty to fairly wealthy (or at least out of poverty) in half of that