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Many foreigners make fun of India by saying India is dirty and Indians are unhygienic. Are we really that bad?

Last Updated: 29.06.2025 05:26

Many foreigners make fun of India by saying India is dirty and Indians are unhygienic. Are we really that bad?

India is dirty because poor people are forced to poop in the streets and not wash because access to potable water is another major bummer

India is dirty because Cities are overcrowded with poor people

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It is deep rooted in religion

If India can work out its corruption and poverty and the VIP culture

Not unless they live in very cold places where a bath could be bad , healthwise.

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So Indians are as hygienic as anyone else

You allow Corruption to fester and make life unbearable for poor people and force them to migrate by the Dunki route and the poorest people become the face of India when just fifteen years ago, it was all about the migrants in silicon valley

Indians even brush their teeth with a stick if they can't afford toothpaste

Is TikTok a creation of the porn industry? To make porn more normalized and accepted? So the porn industry doesn’t lose customers?

Indians consider water to purify many things and cleanliness is part of an Indians psyche

No Indian who can afford a bathroom with running water , would do without a bath.

The Bath is very important in India

Is it true that some Trump voters are saying its good that the stock market is collapsing?

Foreigners make fun of India because you guys allow them to make fun of India

Urban Planning isn't like building a Multimodal AI is it

India has so many chances to sell soft power and culture and change the image of India

What is your favorite underrated movie and why? What makes it underrated? How did you find it?

You allowed Slumdog millionaire to be screened and that movie is responsible for a lot of the “India is dirty” jibe

A homeless poor Indian is as clean as a homeless poor American, except that the Indian is likely to not be a heroin addict and mugger

What essential items would you need to survive and be comfortable if you had to live in a small space like a closet?

India neither has Anime nor plays world class soccer but Indian actors have sufficient exposure and look beautiful enough to make a splash in all those events

India is dirty because poor people who dont have a home are forced to sleep on the streets amidst the thrash with rats running all over them

India is dirty because it is overcrowded

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That's on you guys

You need to get Ramayana global to Europe and the States

Making fun of Indians and making personal remarks at a group of people and generalizing them is wrong at so many levels especially when it comes to hygeine

What are the potential benefits of going without clothes at home for a few days without any specific reason?

You need more films like RRR

You need Mahabharat to go Global to Europe and the States

A middle class Indian is as clean as a middle class American

This is a real question: Why do a lot of men/boys hate (yes, hate) women that voice their criteria in choosing a partner? Even when the criteria is sane and responsible. Besides it being, sadly, an effective mating strategy, why does it exist?

And you seriously need to get out of the media bubble and see India for the shit show it is becoming and causing embarrassment for all Indians

Indians are as hygienic as other foreigners of the same economic class in other countries

Seriously, can't you guys fight against the Corruption everywhere and see that poverty is mitigated and cities are kept less crowded and clean

Why are so many Communist Chinese on Quora despite it being illegal for Chinese citizens to use Quora?

Make fun of India the country, and that's one thing

This is just normal racism coupled with India's own relentless mismanagement of poverty, corruption and lack of proper enforcement of laws

The problem is not about personal hygiene but about poverty and mismanagement

Which document should be pointed out to a holocaust denier?

It's just that India has too many poor people and too much corruption

How did you get to be a leftist?

This pisses me off