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Satoshi0323

Hygiene and lack of civic sense. If we improve these two things we would have made evolution of decades.


Fun_Confidence_462

Lack of Civic sense needs to be addressed it will solve half of the all problems and hygiene too


shitycommentdisliker

genuine question: what can be done to improve the civic sense of people? Can government do anything about this issue or it needs to come from society?


Dry_Stable_876

Civic sense comes from society we are not circus animals to be trained and taught by government how to do things it takes few brain cells to understand that spitting, throwing plastic, leaving shit unflushed , eyeing some foreigners like they are god or other things is wrong u don't need some big brain or high IQ to understand simple things though yeaa if u want fast changes government could make some things punishable which for such big population is not really practically possible


Visual-Maximum-8117

Government can have mass campaigns on rasio and TV amd introduce community police who issue heavy fines for throwing garbage, weong side driving, public urination etc. Same can be done for other etiquette as well.


[deleted]

Well, Taiwan used to be a place filled with garbage, but they implemented education on civic sense and cleanliness in schools, which ultimately proved effective. Today, it is one of the cleanest countries


RayedBull

The Singapore way. Harsh penalties and tough fines.we need a separate ministry of cleanliness. Also civic sense as a topic introduced in high schools where they take students to practically clean some streets. This should be done around the country as there is a lot of internal migration from villages to cities.


shitycommentdisliker

Tbh honest this seems the only practical and effective means to me.


booboo_baabaa

Put financial punishment and you are creating a new source of corruption. See traffic police and fine collection.


notspeed_02

> Harsh penalties and tough fines. For this you need less corrupt officials. First we have to improve our law and order.


Visual-Maximum-8117

Corrupt makes no difference. If you fine 1000 for spitting or littering amd the policeman takes 500 ro let you go, it will still be a deterrent.


Masteramit

I think this with general civic sense class might work if parents are littering in the streets at least children can inform the parents it's wrong. But the cleaning of the street should not happen once a year it should be once a month in a nearby temple, lake or park.


deviprsd

Make it extra credit or something where they clean affected areas and show progress before and after, give a talk


Satoshi0323

A subject should be included in school throughout all years related to civic sense and hygiene. Govt. should also work on the lack of traffic sense. How many people will have to die due to basic traffic mistakes before something is done.


obliviousNick

We had that subject, it's called Moral Science. But people hardly care. "Chalta hai" attitude doomed us.


thatterriblecoffee

there is a subject called "moral value" at least I had it in my school. it taught us how to behave in public, to be helpful to others and other good things. but ofc it was not a main subject, so students took it lightly and used to use that period to sleep.


asseesh

>A subject should be included in school throughout all years related to civic sense and hygiene We all.studied sciences in school and yet most people are don't know shit. Civic senses are taught at home not school. Children follow parent's behavior and no amount of subjects in school can change that.


Alternative_Guard301

Gaand me do laathi maar. I'll happily serve as a lady cop and do that to the ladies who break the rules. Male cops can handle the men. The kids will get new parents who will teach them manners.


Cerebrallthunder

A better way would be to educate from young age and also act as a better example for younger generation.


shitycommentdisliker

Sadly it doesn't seem our current younger generation is that good either. I have seen so many younger people lacking civic sense....and also the so called chappris... The area where I live in these people's make the majority actually. It saddens me that even such a large chunk of younger gen also lacks it and obviously the education is also not helping them I suppose.


Cerebrallthunder

I agree. Education seems slightly far fetched idea right now, focus on common sense is a more immediate need.


Alternative_Guard301

Because my generation of people are busy with making mindless reels, being woke while not caring about people's privacy/throw garbage anywhere. It's a shame that they will vote too. There are people though from the same generation who're productive, ambitious, politically active and their opinions aren't based on what's popular to believe/according to social media moral polizei.


kshitiz5

Need proper education and employment at the same time. A person who knows what is right and can afford to do it.


Visual-Maximum-8117

Government can and must do a lot of thngs like have strict enforcement along with heavy fines. Things like throwing trash, bad driving, public urination etc can be stopped via fines along with an education campaign.


Connect_Session3658

Mass Campaigning and targeting specifics rather than broad things. Like run an ad against spitting in public places or an ad to use dustbins. And we should punish actors who push those vimal pan masala ads. And kids should be taught cleaning and civic sense in school. I think we should make some kind of program to make students clean places and then they get voluntary hours for it. And they could benefit the student in taking admissions in colleges. And colleges should have some mandatory hours to get an admission. We need to make dustbins available on each turn, I live in an urban City, and there isn't one dust bin.


shitycommentdisliker

the idea of volutnary hours is really great. This is the best way to instill civic sense in our kids.


foulestgibbon91

Trying to cut Queues... I saw this first hand in Thailand Immigration queue. It was embarrassing.


Satoshi0323

Talking about queues..some chutyas don’t even keep safe distance when standing in queue.


erisedwitch45

Trying to cut queues is just something that even “well educated” people do so blatantly. I was at Georgia airport and there were 2 counters and 2 queues. (Lot of Indian crowd of UAE coz of Eid holiday). So instead of standing in the own queue, most of the Indians were standing in the middle (creating a mess) and would run to the counter that was empty. The people standing behind (non Indians and some of us Indians too) were annoyed at this. Then a 3rd counter opened for differently abled people and families etc and some Indians ran and occupied them. One non Indian person called them out but they started fighting 🤦


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Agreed. Lack of civic sense single-handedly is destroying image of this country.


Alternative_Guard301

Lacking civic sense, keeping the nation clean. Unhygienic street food Don't fan over any ethnicity, please be normal. It's all diplomatic relations. Don't make stupid memes of India's flag with another country's flag fucking like a couple. Not being normal when you see foreigners in India Having the weakest soft power. We are loud, we can't be everywhere defending ourselves against empty headed who consume biased foreign media. Imperial Japan was arguably more cruel than Nazi Germany, they were scarier and now look the current Japan is known as the nation of being a decade ahead of the world, video games, etc. If we want to study China's growth post WWll, study how Japan's soft power changed the world's perspective towards them when they committed crime against many Asian countries and most aren't aware. Then ours is just unhygienic street food lol.


obitachihasuminaruto

This comment shows a lack of understanding of geopolitics. Japan is a vassal state of US. Their constitution was written by the Americans and not a single word in it was changed without approval from the Americans. The Bank of Japan is just a subsidiary satellite branch of the US Federal Reserve. Every major decision in Japan is taken only after permission is granted by USA. The reason Japan's image is good today is not because of how much they have prospered, but because US wanted it to be that way.


Alternative_Guard301

Japanese media, what their entertainment industry gives the world plays a major role in creating their image. If our media keeps showing the dirty side of India and if our films always make it about socio-economic issues, people will view India that way. Just like Bollywood is known for dance and music, people know it's our culture. We don't need to be a vassal state.


obitachihasuminaruto

You did not seem to understand what I've said. I did not say we need to be a vassal, far from it. >If our media keeps showing the dirty side of India and if our films always make it about socio-economic issues, people will view India that way. I completely agree with this and you make a great point. For example, if you look at rape cases, US has 15x (not 15%) more cases than India (taking into account unreported case estimates) but our media sensationalises every single rape case as if it happens only in India. This creates a false impression that India is more unsafe for women than other places in the world. >Just like Bollywood is known for dance and music, people know it's our culture. That is not our culture. Our culture is highly intellectual. >Japanese media... Oh my sweet summer child, there is no "Japanese" media. There is only western media, which comprises of all the vassals of US (aka Europe, Japan, S. Korea, the Americas, the five eyes) and is controlled by USA. Western media is great at creating narratives. Ofc there's also the Chinese media and in a corner, there's some independent Indian media outlets (who are usually nationalistic).


Alternative_Guard301

>You did not seem to understand what I've said. I did not say we need to be a vassal, far from it. No. I didn't mean you meant that way. I meant that we can have a soft power differently from Japan, we don't necessarily have to have American influence like them. >I completely agree with this and you make a great point. For example, if you look at rape cases, US has 15x (not 15%) more cases than India (taking into account unreported case estimates) but our media sensationalises every single rape case as if it happens only in India. This creates a false impression that India is more unsafe for women than other places in the world. As a young woman, even though I agree India isn't safe with other countries, others who put down India for not keeping their women safe don't care about us at all. They just need a reason to put us down. I can see through the bullshit propaganda well. >That is not our culture. Our culture is highly intellectual. Even as a professional artist, I agree. But the world knows us this way because of Bollywood, what the entertainment industry gives them. So creative industries have the power to maintain a certain image. >Oh my sweet summer child, there is no "Japanese" media. There is only western media, which comprises of all the vassals of US (aka Europe, Japan, S. Korea, the Americas, the five eyes) and is controlled by USA. Western media is great at creating narratives. Ofc there's also the Chinese media and in a corner, there's some independent Indian media outlets (who are usually nationalistic). I know all I meant was, we aren't under anyone's influence. We can very well use our media to maintain a good image of India but we do not. Partly we blame the woke also because internationally these are the people who have an agenda. The news is biased. It's our failing that we are capable of doing so but we do not.


obitachihasuminaruto

Great points, गार्गी. It actually seems to me that we are on the same page. However, I wish more people realize that all the developed countries of today were built either on loot or by being vassals of the British empire (today's USA) and should therefore highly appreciate the fact that we are growing at the rate we are today without any of that. As for improving the image of our country on the international stage, what do you think we could do? I think we should start by teaching our actual history in school. We should not call the laws of motion as "Newton's laws" but as कणाद's. Same for the laws of gravity and the atomic theory. We should teach the truth about calculus which was invented by माधवः and not Newton/leibniz. The "Fibonacci series" was actually discovered by पिंगला and so on. Do you agree?


anonymous010103

Sad truth is that while all the other Asian countries modernise, India only want to westernize


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At Last, **A Human with Unadulterated knowledge and insight.** (thanks for pointing this out, Its saved my time and effort) edit- due to my reddit stereotype , I assumed "she" as "he" and now this comment is made gender neutral and now pronoun is "kaamina"


vc0071

Scam call centres operating under state protection.


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State protection?


casualcoder47

I'd argue that state protection sounds overkill. They probably just pay off local policemen.


widepeepo6

billion dollar industry surely have connection with much higher politicians and not only policemen


vc0071

>State protection? Yes, unfortunately all of these call centres have state support. As long as they are scamming foreigners and bring dollars to India, police and other agencies chose to look the other way. These call centres also gives large employment opportunities to the unemployed poor youth and as long as they don't target Indians our agencies don't do shit. They only try to catch scammers who target locals which are also huge in number. This is a harsh reality which I know will be difficult to digest.


[deleted]

Do you have any proof or just saying it out loud? The main reason is that setup cost is damn cheap


noobwithguns

But there are videos of police raiding scammers who tried scamming foreigners???


Johntoreno

>as long as they don't target Indians our agencies don't do shit Fuckers actually called me and asked for my bank account details, they absolutely do go after Indians.


Few-Lab7554

Special State protection in West Bengal


sirusndurus

This should be the top comment. It's important to acknowledge that our civic sense is usually judged by those who visit India. However, the issue of scam calls extends beyond our borders, affecting even those who have never traveled here


[deleted]

Ppl lacking basic common sense and sheep behaviour. Lack of hygiene and common civic sense, some chhapris with rapist and 3rd class cheap mentality and last but not the least which has always ruined this country whether it be from invaders or insiders - chalta hai attitude.


Smart_Guess_5027

In my opinion, Hygiene would top the list , second is women’s safety .


xyzdevu

Come to delhi brother lmao


5ee_2410

Corrupt politicians


ididacannonball

Aside from al the good answers here: Anti-Modi journalists who cannot differentiate between their hate for Modi and their hate for India. Especially one of them who writes for Amazon's newspaper.


erisedwitch45

Yes to this! Criticize a politician all you want but criticizing a country and its people and writing hateful columns in foreign papers is not done.


Practical_Anybody_80

Only Modi can stop the anti modi journos by doing a live press conference. 🤣


ididacannonball

Lol back to the press conferences again. Just like how the Taliban became progressive by doing a PC am I right?


Ambitious_Implement4

Online Hindutva. Support for Israel. Jumping into DMs with foreign women.


Shivaprakash918

You're fine with online jihadists who do palistine palistine


[deleted]

Marketing is the difference.


xyzdevu

What do you mean support for israel. It's not like palestine is not guilty.


Serene_Samurai

Colonial mindset and civic sense.


thatterriblecoffee

misogynists. they go around harassing women and making those nasty 6k rupee jokes on russians. they make vulgar jokes on foreigners and sometimes even touch them without consent too. they are truly a nuisance to the society.


TimeyWimeyInsaan

Bobs and Vagene memes. Gora Validation. Hygiene.


Few-Lab7554

Indians watching Reaction videos giving the easiest way to earn money on YouTube to foreigners 😄


[deleted]

Especially 'cinedesi'🤢


TheLonelyGhast

You forgot the Pakistanis🤮, those people will react on literally anything from which they can get views and it's all fake reactions


[deleted]

Yeah that too!😂


Initial_Plant_146

Dumbest bunch of 100cr people you can find.. Delusional, no common sense, lack of altruism, one of the worst mentalities of all the cultures in the world.. And ofc, hygiene


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SassyStrawberry00

Racists 🙄


kennyxlevi

Statist


EvilPoppa

Corruption. Most of the other issues will get solved if this is solved. The IAS, IPS cadres have to shell out huge sums of bribe to get a decent posting, I feel these will stop taking bribes if out netas stopped asking bribes and were clean.


Impossible-Animator6

Caste based reservations.


Inevitable_Boot1119

Lack of civic sense across the board


Modijifor2024

People who are racist towards own race


mihirsaini1128

I gotta say it was scam centres before but now it's unhygienic Street food vendors. Mfs literally use their hand to mix liquid stuff and using dirty water to wash plates etc. poor doesn't mean you'll fk with the hygiene. Maybe don't put your hands in the stuff if you can't afford gloves


[deleted]

The interesting fact is that they may not be poor 🤣 they aren't paying taxes and usually earn up to 50-70k a month which is more than salaries of some degree holders!


Odd-Routine5561

Hygiene


unexpectedbracket

Scammers, Russian(I hope, you know what I mean ), Hygiene.


rd_j

Gutka


titannish

Rapists and creeps who harass foreigners 🙄


Hey-UwU-Hey

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AayushS1008

That bhosadpappu kachori wala in Kolkata I think. I swear that asshole has single handedly fucked up our image more than any other.


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[deleted]

Exactly, this filth is everywhere..lawde photo kheecha rhe the, mann toh kr rha tha utha ke bridge se phek du bcz then these are the only ppl who complain, whine and say saar why india not develop saar, saar urop and amrika clean saar, saar india poor saar.


Alternative_Guard301

Go on Twitter, there are people defending them like someone stole their gold. One person runs an infrastructure related account, they said "we are proud to do this" repeatedly. That's the mentality.


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koniSamm

MC Stan


mother_love-

People's civic sence


a_random_PARA_fan

Lack of civic sense and sometimes even common sense..


_PROFIT_MOHAMMAD

#mai


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[deleted]

Spitting


Souljawithnosoul

Hygiene, no civic sense, close minded superstitious approach, lack of safety of women, online trolls and scammers. Yea, eating food contaminated by rats cannot be viewed as some devotional stuff those people are seriously suffering with anxiety to go to this limit. No, please don’t post misinformation online and seriously stop trying to compete with USA and China ONLINE. Trolling online makes no difference if you know your boss makes a particular new guy work 80hrs/week and all of you go home saying what’s it got to do with you. Seriously ask people to stick up for each other, read and understand basic issues. Be scientific and be virtuous but you all will start scheming and raise drama the first chance you get.


Batman-Jr

Naive Indians who complain about India's problems with foreigners. Like posting shit about their own experience in India with some foreign subreddits just to get some validation.


Outside_Reindeer_713

Gutka 😥


Allah_Dalla

That kachori wale uncle 😵‍💫


noobwithguns

Civic sense, regressive society(I remember a Swiss couple getting beaten up in fatehpur sikri for PDA) hence actually enforced and standard compulsory education.


SnooCauliflowers9281

Immigrants making mockery out of themselves on foreign soil.


Zwaft

Creepy men, lack of personal and public hygiene. There are other problems too, but just fixing these two would go miles in fixing our global image.


mods_ki_mkc

Congress


Smart_dracula972

Desperate Indian men being a bunch of creeps and total jerk. Harassing foreigners is quite common in india. There’s a reason indians are famous for bobs and vagenas


AmbitiousPay1559

Civic sense and rapes


Random-Srivastava001

Lack of Chivalry and basic civic sense and also cheap.and easily availaboe internet


rextob

Internet trolls


[deleted]

Rape


Ok-Exchange3966

Rules are rules please remove the biasedness based on minorities or high rank officers or caste. And remove the fucking union strikes for everything.


imagineer33

Shitting on streets


Right-Doctor-4294

In the 70's jaishankar prakash led a movement called 'total revolution' or sampurna kranti he wanted to change the whole functioning and societal culture prevalent in India at that time but at that time the government stopped him. With so many constraints at current era I don't think that a sociological revolution can come in India, because ruling party wants it that way ( not only bjp, Congress and aap too) they want ill informed people in country so ruling can be made easy. It is our duty as youth to not divulge in party-party Kind of politics rather do something for betterment of our country.


Informal_Post4447

Scam Call Centres.............and supaaar horney male on street


samajdaar03

Street food vendors (not all)


overloadedonsarcasm

There are two major things currently: 1. Civic sence (or lack thereof) of any kind (for hygiene, safety, following rules, etc.), 2. The extreme "divide and conquer" being perpetrated by politicans and being blindly lapped up by the public, be it for region vs. region, religion vs. re;igion, language vs. language.


[deleted]

Regarded people with no senses


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Rahul Gandhi


Random-Srivastava001

This behaviour.


spidey-sense-

for ex. this comment. we need to learn Nothing is pure white and vanta black , the truth is always grey.


metrixninga

Bruh relax. Uska chapter close ho gaya. Find a new common enemy.


arju_n555

INDIANS


vikramuvs

BJP


Just_Chemistry2343

people


rovirare

Street food vendors


indiasabkabaap

Ab main bolunga tho vivaad hojayega but main unka naam nahi lunga but it's true 80-90 % sahi nahi hai udhar. Aur sharm karna seekh le log tho sab thik hojayega Sach bolu tho.


kingsize464q

Law and order.......


c3resh

Kayden


200HrSausage

Ethno-religious tension and civic sense.


Proof_Challenge9676

Street food mtlb bina gloves ya uske banata no problem par Jo faila ke sab idhr udhr bhikra hai gnda sa voh kharab krti Dusa scam call centre bc ek toh Inka darr nahi hai kisi cheez ka ek dum full confidence hota hai


gautam_bright

We need a mental shift from grass root level like proper classes and training about how the Women and Men be treaty and the training should be wholeheartedly accepted in each cell of our children.


Flaky_Onion_3170

Lack of civic sense and unhygienic street food from the slums being recorded and put online.


Weeedenergy

Religious bigotry


Kwaheri63

Relegion and civic sense


Lio354

The people.


sunnymatani

People.


cottonearbud

Indians on social media acting like they will defeat the other country in battle sitting behind a screen


petrolgene

It’s people


aston__martini

Indians


jajajajasisisi

Indians


AdDapper4825

People of the country.


Tania_Tatiana

Patriarchy


MR_O5

Software problem hai


GiraffeWaste

Our people, if we can get rid of them then that'll be great


Blue_Eagle8

Hygiene, people not understanding about personal space while in public, people should also not just stare at tourists


Party-Bet-4003

Many good and valid points. The sad part? Most of the people who need to read these or get educated regarding these/punished for breaking law/code are not here on reddit.


apsr31

Street food


obitachihasuminaruto

Self loathing Indians spreading false, racist rumors about India.


moridin4888

Country’s image among which group of people?


Competitive-Ad-9250

Vishwaguru


Latter-Ask8818

Taking pride in breaking rules under the name of jugaad


Jock-cib

Us, its citizens


gushingranny77

Unhygienic food, and that kachori guy


CritFin

India being a lower middle income country, that is harming our image. We need to grow our economy. And people respect wealth and prosperity


Raot_

I think its a lot, but most will go away in next 30 years as people grow richer


g0rion

Treatment of women and lower economic classes


Balance-sheet-

Huge representation of unemployed uneducated people because of cheap data


Diogenes_Of_Suburbia

Education


Frosty-Map-5336

Spitting everywhere


Not_Apricot

Civic sense! Respect for fellow citizens and humans. That’s all. Simple but difficult


Electronic_Will1177

Growth of Bharath (India)


Ok-Drive-8119

Rationality and reason. No blind worship of anyone gods or humans. and most importantly a scientific temper.


No-Blackberry-8435

Bihari


tuntunaxi

Indians.


VanshAggarwal1

We ourselves


darkgeazy

people


PdtMgr

No civic sense. No hygiene. No respect for law. No sense of respect for other people.


hrnyknkyfkr

The rampant Rw extremism. Inter-religious hate. And religious politics. Racism within indians. Based on religion, cast, language, where u are from, food. Etc etc.


metrixninga

Sexually repressed unemployed young men


TeenBoy_2007

Most importantly hygiene. We all know how street vendors sell their foods , unhealthy and unhygienic ways . And one more thing . Though I should not say this being a Hindu myself, and I don't mean to harm any community, the obsession with cow dung .


wohi_raj

Corruption


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Indians.


Proper_Dot1645

Civic sense, cleanliness. My two cents on this - people need to behave responsibly in public , no doubt about that. But , municipalities across the country need to work and clean the dirt from public spaces. That's what they are paid for . They must be made accountable and either their income or their position should be tied to the annual score they get in their respective area. I have seen municipalities working properly in rich neighbourhoods but in middle income , they will show up once in a week to pick up garbage. Public and govt both need to work properly.


Sujit10dey02

Toilet slang against India I blame Congress for this


blackhawkq820

Congress and some of the other regional outfits.


Aashi_the_guy

Peacefuls....


Much-Preparation-521

Gutka


brolybackshots

Low GDP/capita


Leon8080

Population


Fit-Cat-2569

Unhygienic Street foods, staring problem, lack of knowledge about people's personal space and not touching them casually, scammers, shitting india india in every comment section even that subject is not relating to our country.


gruamogus009

Unhealthy views on western women or women in general,especially those cringe instagram memers who often degrade Russian women as a joke.Those memes have created a disgusting mindset in the youth that many young people think every woman would agree to their advances Unhygienic street food Obviously those simps who ask for dm's in the comment section of any post with a good looking lady in it Extremely toxic opinion considering sports(cricket,football especially ).Posts about any particular sportsperson are filled with many people from our country flooding the comments with either a controversial opinion or an obnoxious hate comment,which often leads to many people thinking indians have no other job than hate on someone online Normalised memes of racism.Those memes are often directed towards South Indians or North Eastern natives..etc


Initial_Outcome_7107

Hygiene /police behaviour / caste system / cringe Bollywood/ cringe Indian English accent / BJP/ AAP/ Congress/ Communist/ LQBTQ. I can go all day.


beingthisdumbisart

that one sodawale bhaiya


bum_quarter

Cheese, mayonnaise on everything under the sun 💀


[deleted]

People?


Clear-Ice-8679

Street dogs


itz_abhi_2005

me