Everyday going to the Institute I walk over a "construction site" of sorts. It seems that they are building a bridge. There is always something being done as before anything Indians are looking for work. They work to live and live where they work. Literally setting up house, in someones garage they serve, placing tin siding and roofing in a place mere feet from the construction site and the entire family lives there as it is in this case. So I have come to recognize this family as they have me. The small head jiggle exchanged with a soft smile reflecting the caste system.
I wonder between the two who is more obvious, the white girl with her daughter or the poor family living in a tin hut smiling every time she passes.
The children are there during the work and never wear underwear or diapers as the case may be, who could afford them and further more where would they end up? On the street used and more dirty than the simple receptacle the street can be and is used as. I can see where polio is still in tact here.
But in the face of all this I do not consider India nor Indians to be dirty, unclean or non hygienic. They are products of their environment. and in the face of it considerably hygienic. They are given very little and with what they are given they do exceedingly well.
A ditch needs to be dug there is someone to dig it, with a suggestion of a shovel and a stiff upper lip and use of their hands. They set their home up in order to do this task and then there is food that needs to be made and so they must ask first for the food then find the utensils to cook it. This again they do. Engineers every one of them with out the education to establish the due course of respect for their efforts.
It is a different standard here in India, the house is dusty because the pollution is awful, the pollution is awful because the funds are placed elsewhere, I dare not say anything I know nothing about but it seems to me there is enough people and living space in India to house all with comfort, there is just some reason that it does not. It is an economic impoverishment that lands heavy on the people to pay for it.
But as I say I do not see them as less nor question their ideology, I think if given North America and the "civility" we live in, it would be questioned with reason, as our complications are the reason they are still digging ditches with their bare hands and living in tents outside these ditches.
It is time to reconsider what we justify as needed in place of what we really need and why we think it is okay for others to pay the price of our needs and judge them after for the consequences we turn a blind eye to.
There are no garbage cans on the streets in India so of course the street becomes the can, does this mean the people are at fault? How should they approach living then?
I wonder between the two who is more obvious, the white girl with her daughter or the poor family living in a tin hut smiling every time she passes.
The children are there during the work and never wear underwear or diapers as the case may be, who could afford them and further more where would they end up? On the street used and more dirty than the simple receptacle the street can be and is used as. I can see where polio is still in tact here.
But in the face of all this I do not consider India nor Indians to be dirty, unclean or non hygienic. They are products of their environment. and in the face of it considerably hygienic. They are given very little and with what they are given they do exceedingly well.
A ditch needs to be dug there is someone to dig it, with a suggestion of a shovel and a stiff upper lip and use of their hands. They set their home up in order to do this task and then there is food that needs to be made and so they must ask first for the food then find the utensils to cook it. This again they do. Engineers every one of them with out the education to establish the due course of respect for their efforts.
It is a different standard here in India, the house is dusty because the pollution is awful, the pollution is awful because the funds are placed elsewhere, I dare not say anything I know nothing about but it seems to me there is enough people and living space in India to house all with comfort, there is just some reason that it does not. It is an economic impoverishment that lands heavy on the people to pay for it.
But as I say I do not see them as less nor question their ideology, I think if given North America and the "civility" we live in, it would be questioned with reason, as our complications are the reason they are still digging ditches with their bare hands and living in tents outside these ditches.
It is time to reconsider what we justify as needed in place of what we really need and why we think it is okay for others to pay the price of our needs and judge them after for the consequences we turn a blind eye to.
There are no garbage cans on the streets in India so of course the street becomes the can, does this mean the people are at fault? How should they approach living then?
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