Posted on 06/21/2014 4:12:25 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
It's early morning and local commuters are queuing up for tickets at the Kirti Nagar railway station in the Indian capital, Delhi.
Along the tracks, another crowd is gathering - each person on his own, separated by a modest distance. They are among the 48% of Indians who do not have access to proper sanitation.
Coming from a slum close-by, they squat among the few trees and bushes along the railway tracks and defecate in the open.
To many, this is a daily morning ritual despite the hazards of contracting diseases such as diarrhoea and hepatitis.
It can be even more hazardous for women since each time a woman uses the outdoors to relieve herself, she faces a danger of sexual assault.
Recently two teenage girls from the state of Uttar Pradesh were gang-raped and found hanging from a tree after they left their village home to go to the toilet. Their house, like hundreds of millions of others in the country, did not have any facilities. 'No privacy'
A new World Health Organisation (WHO) report says more than half a billion people in India still "continue to defecate in gutters, behind bushes or in open water bodies, with no dignity or privacy".
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Indeed... playing with fudge is part of Obama’s scatological enforcement of his homosexual agenda.
Any large population will generate many brilliant, industrious people. It is the culture & government that determines whether these attributes are rewarded.
I like your tagline.
I worked with a guy who bailed out of Iran just before the Shah went under. He said he had to have his exit application inspected and stamped by 24 different clerks. At desk #23, the clerk added his stamp, then pointed to the next desk and said "Go there." The guy's application was almost completely covered with hand stamps and he wondered What Next?
The young clerk at #24 carefully looked over the application, then PRECISELY folded the paper into three equal parts, put it in an envelope and handed it back. "You're done." he said. That was his entire job, fold the paper in three parts and put it in an envelope.
The guy said that's the way it was in many Third/Second World societies - the guys get a degree and there's no private job available, so the government hires them to keep the riots down, and the bureaucracy just gets bigger and bigger.
There is no such thing as overpopulation. Singapore, Taiwan and the Netherlands have a greater population density than India.
There are at least two main problems, cultural, i.e., the caste system/Hinduism, and economic, i.e., free markets and property rights.
It's my understanding that both conditions are improving, which is something we should be happy about, since we are all children of God. The great unreported news of the 21st century is that poverty is being rolled back, worldwide.
India is poised to be the next emerging market after China, which was the successor to Japan. I am old enough to remember the phrase, "Japanese junk," and looking at the bottom of toys to see if they were "Made in Japan."
I have often thought that the essence of freedom is taking a whiz without having to aim........................
On my own property of course.
I stopped by our house one day to see how the construction was going, to find the mason taking a leak on the foundation. It was kinda awkward.
"Hi. Uh..."
The guy I mentioned in post #104 was in the Air Force as a liaison between us and other middle Eastern types (spoke fluent Farsi and Arabic). Said that many times he’d go to the mens room and see one of them in an open door stall squatting on the toilet seat and had to explain to him that you SIT on it, not SQUAT - the aim was much better.
“The poverty in India for the lower classes is breathtaking.”
In contrast to American poverty which includes ownership and use of the following services: Free or subsidized rent, food and medical care; Air-conditioning, phone service, computers, tablets, smart phones, internet service, cable/satellite TV, automobiles, appliances, fashion clothing, etc.
“If they would ease off on their concentration on multiplying like rabbits and think about how to bring themselves into the modern world, they wouldn’t be doing this.
I was in the U.S. Army serving in Seoul, Korea in 1961-62 and I saw the same thing. I haven’t been there since but I understand that South Korea is now a modern, industrialized nation. I would bet any amount of money that they don’t do that anymore.
It speaks volumes about the Indian civilization.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition
Give the and rinos a little more time.
This is not just the Indians, even the French do this! Many cultures defecate in the open!
“...while telling the poor they’re so much better off than they were under British rule.”
B b b but Mahatma Gandhi rescued them from all that British oppression!
And I have seen the same thing on a main street ,right by a shopping center in Dallas! America - the land of few public toilets.
Time for photos of the Bollywood Queens - a high number of Miss Worlds and Miss Universes.
So what happened to you there, why did you go?
People from India are the newest liberal victim group. I’m not sure how that happened or why... because there aren’t that many Indians living in the United States. I assume the reason for the article to to drum up negative comments from conservatives to bolster their ‘victim’ status.
It’s kinda sick...
That said, why in hell don’t these people band together and build a few outhouses? Not that expensive...affords privacy... must be a reason why not. I’m betting on government regulations..
Yes, the poverty is breathtaking, but liberal elites love going there for ‘enlightenment’... and to feel superior to their poor. I fear liberal elites get off on totally degrading poverty...
That said, recently I ran into liberals who are treating “Indians’ like a newly found and favored victim group. It seems odd because there are so few people from India living in the United States... have you heard anything about this?
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