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It’s a chicken and egg situation: are Indians unclean because the system fails us, or does the system not work because Indians keep littering?
I fully understand the nuance, and there are lots of Indians that have no civic sense, but it makes you think what created this behaviour in the first place? If we want to change people’s behaviour, we have to give them reliable systems that actually WORK first
I’m not a doomer, I believe we can change this in the next 10 years— but it needs to be a systemic change, not just an individual one.
Transcript
Rolling Loud just launched a teaser video where they did graffiti by power washing moss off of walls instead of painting with graffiti like usual And I thought that was a really cool idea until I tier seeing all these racist Better comments. They're essentially like, oh graffiti in India is cleaning dirty or shitty walls. And it's like, if you're gonna be racist at least get the facts right because that's not dirt, it's algae. It grows on walls in every tropical country especially in monsoon right now. And so that really pissed me off. But you know what pisses me off more? Is that every corner of our cities look like this. And so while I don't agree with the racists, is there really no association with our country being dirty? Every corner of our city looks like this. Sewage is openly dumped into all our water bodies. Effluence, medical waste, industrial waste is best disposed with no care. And the reason I think it's still racist to call Indians unclean is because it's not a people issue, but a systems issue. Because every Indian house you go to is immaculately clean. Because Indians inherently value cleanliness. But why is it that the road outside their house or the corner around their street is really dirty? Because the system fails us. And we don't feel like we have any control over our public spaces. I live in Bangalore, and in Bangalore alone, why is the garbage collection system a bunch of small rank tempos going around neighborhoods instead of huge trucks like every other southeast Asian country, where is our sanitation system? Where is our garbage disposal system? Why do we treat waste as something that's disposed and forgotten about? No, yeah, I'm mad at the racist, but I'm also mad at the fact that government after government, public servants better public servants over the decades have failed to handle waste and garbage in our country that has led to our cities and environment being extremely unclean, and as a second order, led to the Indians are dirty stereotype
