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- Nairn0
Ignorance runs rampant once again in the halls of NT.
I take it none of you have ever been there.
czawada
(Oct 3 07, 15:46)I take it you have, then? Instead of shooting back with the affectation of worldliness after one enquiry and one well-meaning response, why not offer something useful?
Otherwise, in my humble eyes, you come across like every other package backpacker bussing it on Daddy's Visa. And believe me - they're generally more tiresome and ignorant than ex-Eastern bloc kids wanting to go out and see things for themselves.
- czawada0
"super cheap and poor"
sounds like ignorance to me.
sirabhinav
(Oct 3 07, 16:02)"
- Nairn0
You mean the questioner?
The guy asking the questions?
Looking for insight?
Looking for knowledge?
Trying to shirk off that ignorance?
How are you helping?
- czawada0
"poor and cheap" is a pretty wide sweeping generalization of a country you've never been to which comes off as being ignorant.
It's no different than saying that all Americans are war mongers.
Which obviously isn't the case.
- Concrete0
Nairn,
+1
- Nairn0
Yes, yes, yes, czawada - that he knows little about India is painfully obvious, asking about a topic necessarily implies a level of ignorance.
That's largely irrelevant - what bothers me is how you've reacted. Instead of choosing to educate or help, you've elected to soak in your sense of superiority.
When the occasional Euronik generalises negatively about America on here, I do chime up and try to temper that with a bit of reason. I'd like to think that other people would temper my occasionally fascist outbursts with a bit of their own reasoning.
Otherwise we end up mired in vitriolic shit-flinging such as this, and NT suffers for it.
x
- Nairn0
Oh balls, my wifi crashed and now ...
Now i'm just trying to soak myself in my own sense of superiority.
*wets pants, slaps an Indian
- vespa0
india is amazing. climb the himalayas if you can. life and death are very close to the surface in india, a humbling place.
- ********0
While 'poor and cheap' are generalizations let's give him a pat on the back for not using the words 'filthy' or 'shithole'.
These are the generalizations I heard most while planning my trip.
India is a shithole!
India is Filthy!
The really funny thing is that poor, cheap, filthy, and shithole all apply to most of the places I visited.
I try not make these generalizations when speaking about my trip; however, I don't think that one can claim the following statement is inaccurate:
'When visiting India you will see EXTREME cases of poverty and it is a RELATIVELY cheap country to travel through.'
I don't think the original person was all that ignorant, just lazy in his/her summation saying it was 'cheap and poor'.
What does the lonely planet say?
[that was a joke]
- sonic0
India is amazing. And cannot be sumed in a nutshell. You have to try everything while you are there. Take the local transit, walk a lot, eat lots of food. Visit everywhere you can, since landscape, culture, food, people, beauty changes before you know it. Visit the temples, see a bollywood movie, take an elephant ride. What more to say. India is beautiful in its day to day and the most common aspect. You will see beauty, if you keep your mind open.
- ********0
that was a nutshell...
I agree with most everything you say especially the bollywood movie
- grafiske0
Mexist - how did you land that job? Was it volunteer?
I am highly interested, Ive been applying to teach abroad there - but doing something I am much higher skilled at would be great!
Also, I don't care about pay. As long as I made enough to pay rent and buy food - which is about what teaching English pays..
- sonic0
Bollywood is kwel. Mirch masala.
- hal0
Dharamsala is good to escape the heat - depends when you are going, its also home to the Dalai Lama. The himalayas are beautiful. Vasranasi is is interesting, Agra is horrible apart from the Taj mahal. Banana lassi drinks sare great. Generally a colourful and vibrant place to visit.
- mexist0
hey grafiske, it was a non-paying gig, but they did put me up in a little flat in the village, and i had a bicycle to get into the town when i needed stuff from the market. it was really rural, so pay wasn't really vital, since all i was paying for was food. i spent about a month there, and without the airfare, i spent about 400 bucks total. that includes hotels in bombay, N.D., bangalore, train transport, taxis, rickshaws, food, bric-a-brac, stuff...
one place you can start looking if you want to volunteer is in the back of lonely planet, or let's go... they have listings all over the country ranging from paying to non-paying stuff. you wont see anything specifically for graphic design needs but if there's something that interests you, contact them, and i'm willing to bet your work would be really beneficial. i did an ID system, brochure, and photographed a ton of surgeries to put together a sanitary guide for them... if you are in the south, i know a great group of people down there that would welcome you and your skills... just remember to bring a laptop!
- mexist0
Toilet Museum New Delhi
http://www.sulabhtoiletmuseum.or…Guide to Train System (study this!)
http://seat61.com/India.htmVolunteering links for India:
http://del.icio.us/mexist/volunt…India Travel Forum (informative)
http://www.indiamike.com/Chandigarh (experimental city layout based on a grid design)
http://tinyurl.com/2go698Karni Mata (rat temple)
http://news.nationalgeographic.c…
- Tara0
I'm thinking of travelling to India this fall, anyone have anything to add to this?
intelligent and helpful, not more bashing of the original person. thank youI will be honest, I don't know too much about it, but it's a place that has been on my list for a long time.
- Llyod0
so where are the pictures?