Originally posted by trev33Dude, pick a better locale to live out your never-ending identity crisis. What is the appeal with India? Apart from the poverty, corruption, classism, diarrhea and never-ending garbage of course...
yes. a number of reasons, i've become more restless than usual here and i need to be in a better/different climate, can't do another winter here after having pretty much no summer again. plus i want to do some sort of voluntary work, sorting that out at the moment actually, that's probably the main reason.
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Originally posted by darvlayname me a country without poverty, corruption and classism?
Dude, pick a better locale to live out your never-ending identity crisis. What is the appeal with India? Apart from the poverty, corruption, classism, diarrhea and never-ending garbage of course...
as for the diarrhoea, i'll take it as a welcome to india like i did with peru.
does a country have to have 'western' hygiene standards to be a good destination?
Originally posted by trev33Your question is totally irrelevant. It's not about having a complete void of classism, poverty and corruption. It's about those things not being the norm in a society. 😛
name me a country without poverty, corruption and classism?
as for the diarrhoea, i'll take it as a welcome to india like i did with peru.
does a country have to have 'western' hygiene standards to be a good destination?
Re: Hygiene. For me, absolutely. I'll sacrifice some things here and there but the destination better be worth it. Beaches, women, aesthetics, etc. What makes it worth it with India?
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Originally posted by darvlaywho says they're not the norm in the west? i lost count on the amount of homeless people i met wondering around miami (part of the greatest country on earth, you know) while i was wondering around, more so than any south american city outside of colombia that i was in. just one example i know but i'm sure if you looked into it you would find almost as much poverty, classism and corruption in a lot of countries in the west than you would in india. it'll be a different form of poverty, classism and corruption than in india but it'll be there.
Your question is totally irrelevant. It's not about having a complete void of classism, poverty and corruption. It's about those things not being the norm in a society. 😛
Re: Hygiene. For me, absolutely. I'll sacrifice some things here and there but the destination better be worth it. Beaches, women, aesthetics, etc. What makes it worth it with India?
for me it has to do with the people, i can do without a lot of things i'm used to here if i'm in a country where the people are warm and friendly... not overly but you know what i mean. i honestly won't know if india will be 'worth it' until i've been there a while but i have a feeling i'll have the same love/hate relationship with it as i had with s. america and it be will worth it. i'd rather explore a completely new place and hate it than go to some place i've been to and liked before. people are just different, i look at the people who go on their week-2 week vacation to spain each year just to sit about at a pool with a bar with the same face as you're looking at me right now. the wft would you want to do that face.
Originally posted by trev33Homelessness is a mental health issue as much as anything else.
who says they're not the norm in the west? i lost count on the amount of homeless people i met wondering around miami (part of the greatest country on earth, you know) while i was wondering around, more so than any south american city outside of colombia that i was in. just one example i know but i'm sure if you looked into it you would find almost as much po ...[text shortened]... me face as you're looking at me right now. the wft would you want to do that face.
Trev, don't compare yourself to the likes of the resort stayers, you're completely different to them, what they've gone away for is nothing like what you've gone away for.
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Originally posted by yo its mewhat? i wasn't comparing myself to a homeless person, jesus. i was showing that you don't need to be in a 'developing' nation to find poverty.
Homelessness is a mental health issue as much as anything else.
Trev, don't compare yourself to the likes of the resort stayers, you're completely different to them, what they've gone away for is nothing like what you've gone away for.
Originally posted by trev33I don't understand your first sentence, sorry.
what? i wasn't comparing myself to a homeless person, jesus. i was showing that you don't need to be in a 'developing' nation to find poverty.
Yeah that's true- with homelessness, what I was saying is that- it's becasue people who are homeless are on the streets becasue of a more deep reason then poverty. A lot of street people have mental health issues and are not able to live in he constraints of a building.