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Why do millions of Indians defecate in the open?
BBC ^ | 6/16/2014

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 ...


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To: Altura Ct.

Because they can!


21 posted on 06/21/2014 4:36:08 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: x1stcav

LOL exactly.

I took a leak in the yard this morning because I could.


22 posted on 06/21/2014 4:36:22 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: PghBaldy

Some business associates of mine who do business in Asia have described India as one of the most backward places they’ve ever seen. Even the Indian ones would prefer not to do business there.


23 posted on 06/21/2014 4:43:21 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("What in the wide, wide world of sports is goin' on here?")
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To: OldPossum

“If they would ease off on their concentration on multiplying like rabbits ...”

Easier said than done.(Ain’t everything?)

I drive through Flushing, Queens NY fairly regularly where there is a high Indian population and many of those Indian girls are beyond breathtaking.


24 posted on 06/21/2014 4:43:30 AM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: Altura Ct.

And this is your modern-day customer service and IT support people. At least they’ll work for far less than Americans will.


25 posted on 06/21/2014 4:45:47 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Every time you say no to a liberal, you make the Baby Barack cry.)
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To: OldPossum
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.

Having the same size families as American pioneers in the 19th century isn't "multiplying like rabbits". India is now a net EXPORTER of food and doing much better than they were 50 years ago financially. Having children isn't the problem. A bigger problem would be passing up the free hamburger that lives in the streets with them. That's their choice.
26 posted on 06/21/2014 4:46:30 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you're litigating against nuns, you've probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
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To: Altura Ct.

Why buy the cow when you can catch it taking a crap?


27 posted on 06/21/2014 4:47:43 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: Altura Ct.

I read that India is planning to plant 1,000,000,000 trees alongside of roads.


28 posted on 06/21/2014 4:48:38 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch (http://thegatwickview.tumblr.com/ http://thepurginglutheran.tumblr.com/)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Re: over population

That’s what Africa is for


29 posted on 06/21/2014 4:48:41 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: NonValueAdded

Indians....Dots, not feathers. :-)


30 posted on 06/21/2014 4:48:51 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: cripplecreek
"I took a leak in the yard this morning because I could."

Back when we were house shopping, part of my minimal criteria for a property is that it had to be private enough for me to step out on the back deck and take a piss without anyone easily seeing, or complaining. Also needed to be able to shoot guns without issue and have high speed internet - all making it a bit difficult to find a place, but we did!

31 posted on 06/21/2014 5:05:10 AM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: Altura Ct.

the whole world is their urinal.


32 posted on 06/21/2014 5:11:34 AM PDT by bikerman (Bowe Bergdahl is a traitor not a hero and should be hung.)
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To: Zhang Fei
What's breathtaking is the indifference of the corrupt ruling elites to the lives of the peasants. India is one of those countries that could use a good old-fashioned Bastille-type revolution, complete with the guillotining of the entire upper class. They have been robbing the country blind via regulatory corruption, and plain old theft, while telling the poor they're so much better off than they were under British rule.

That worked so well for Haiti, didn't it?

It may be the case that the upper castes are also where the higher-IQ individuals come from. You know, the ones who are necessary for the operation of modern civilization?

I do agree that it would be better for India if much of government/socialism was stripped away, that the government employees were forced to seek private sector employment, and if restrictions preventing lower castes from starting their own small businesses were removed.

33 posted on 06/21/2014 5:13:18 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Alberta's Child

And yet plenty of our companies can’t wait to move IT jobs there to unqualified, but cheap of course, call center monkeys - probably many of the same ones squatting al fresco.

Let’s be honest - many of their countrymen who come to the States have some of these same (read: lower) standards of hygiene. And many of these new arrivals are buying up hotels and motels and applying this same standard of cleanliness which is to say no standard at all.

ANYTHING that costs money - A/C, water, soap, etc. will be rationed as if the war were on. These are some grasping, greedy buggers.

I booked a room at what was ostensibly a chain hotel owned by one of our Indian friends. It was an absolutely shocking experience...I opened the hotel door, saw the state of the room, turned on my heel and checked out. Of course, Srini at the front desk frowned and muttered something about a ‘minimum charge.’ I told him my credit card company would most assuredly take my side and that he could get stuffed.


34 posted on 06/21/2014 5:16:14 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Endual,etc)
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To: Dr. Sivana
Having the same size families as American pioneers in the 19th century isn't "multiplying like rabbits"

If this information on the number of children that the American pioneers had is correct, you still have a problem when you compare it to the bases of the populations at issue. The pioneers in America numbered far, far fewer than the multitudes currently in India, so applying that ratio is not a valid comparison, IMHO. The analogy to "multiplying like rabbits" still makes sense to me.

35 posted on 06/21/2014 5:17:20 AM PDT by OldPossum ("It's" is the contraction of "it" and "is"; think about ITS implications.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

I have to go now. I will be back later to comment on what you have to say.


36 posted on 06/21/2014 5:18:51 AM PDT by OldPossum ("It's" is the contraction of "it" and "is"; think about ITS implications.)
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To: KoRn

I’m in town so guns are pretty much out but its a town of a bit over 100 people. Its the kind of place where everybody lives on the edge of town but I’m one of 3 houses between town and the lake.


37 posted on 06/21/2014 5:20:32 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: relictele

It’s interesting that some prominent corporate franchises have been taking a close look at that for years. I know Southland Corp. — the parent company for 7-11 — got a lot of negative press some years ago when they announced that they were taking a close look at many of their Indian franchise owners.


38 posted on 06/21/2014 5:24:13 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("What in the wide, wide world of sports is goin' on here?")
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To: Altura Ct.

Indians “bathe” in the Ganges River, which health officials call a cesspool and toxic waste dump.


39 posted on 06/21/2014 5:25:40 AM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: driftdiver; Zhang Fei

You’d better have a strong stomach to look at these ‘everyday’ pics from over there:

http://www.chinasmack.com/2010/pictures/filthy-india-photos-chinese-netizen-reactions.html


40 posted on 06/21/2014 5:25:46 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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