Apr 15, 2006
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I'm envious!

Haven't been to Manali, though. Never been north of Noida.
I've never been to Manali or other northern states either. I'll be seeing snow for the first time in my life. You can probably imagine how excited I am about that! :D
Me too! I wanna go to India and the Taj Mahal.

The only thing that keeps me from seriously consider going is the poverty. I'm not like those kind of people that see poor kids asking for money and think is cute, if you know what I mean
Meh, poverty's everywhere. No need to think it's cute or anything. Just ignore it, and see what's worth seeing. That's what I do.
 

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L'autista
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Sep 23, 2003
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Me too! I wanna go to India and the Taj Mahal.

The only thing that keeps me from seriously consider going is the poverty. I'm not like those kind of people that see poor kids asking for money and think is cute, if you know what I mean
The poverty is a very polarizing thing, I found. There are beggars who are far worse in places like Tijuana or even Hartford, CT in the good old USA. Some people just freak at it and get overwhelmed. While it's never acceptable, others seem to see it differently.

I've often likened people's responses to the poverty in India to holding up a mirror to yourself. I wasn't sure how I'd react, spending most of my travel time in more "affluent" parts of the world in general. But I really got into the Indians and their diversity -- economic, social, religious, racial, etc.

The thing was for me, given how spiritually centered many Indians are, I could see many of them looking at Westerners with pity about how spiritually poor they (we) are -- the way that many Westerners might pity them for economic reasons. There is a matter of perspective, and it's easy for the economically affluent to judge others on single, narrow-minded terms.
 

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