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The original was posted on /r/india by /u/Resident-State-1934 on 2025-10-06 06:00:02+00:00.

No offence, but unless India curbs their ever-growing population, doesn’t use religion in their politics and workplaces, and learns to grow a pair and acclimate into a country their visit or move to, change their perseption on caste-based seperations, hating on love marriages/birth control/family honour/sex education, teaching men how to respect women (yes, majority of them) etc. India is so backwards in their thinking. All we do is focus on study-work-marriage-kids, like as if we are on a hamster wheel.

Not to mention the absolute lack of social skills, such as limited inter-gender communication (unless your mommy finds you a partner), no cleanliness (stop littering everywhere, especially when you are at another country with their rules), lack of hygiene (buy some god damn body spray and shower more often) etc. But no, we don’t want to even try or learn, cause we are just as hot headed with the whole, ‘Indians are the best!’ mindset. The scamming, the ogling, the constant trying to cheat their way through everything… The fellow Indians who critisize us and are embarrased to be an Indian, are the ones who truly understand the issues and are struggling to mix with other people due to the impression made by the ones who don’t want to change.

As a solo backpacker, I am appalled by the lack of Indians on my journeys. It’s all Europeans, westerners, a few East/South-East Asians etc. When I tell people that I want to be a photographer or I love scuba diving, majority look at me like I am different. Being question about my purity and morals and what not. Indian society, 90% of the time, revolves around ‘sanskar’. Throw that away and let people live their own lives, not dictated by parent’s dream. This is actually quite common (again, not all, but majority). To live your own life takes a lot of fighting and breakdowns and hidden depressions and whatnot.

If the basic mentality of Indians doesn’t change internally, don’t expect others to accept you either. You need to learn to accept others first. You want to fix a problem, show them that you are willing to change.

TIll then, India and Indians are screwed.

P.S. Fellow Indian who has seen enough of this bullshit argument on why others look down on Indians.