Comment on Spirit of Mumbai, everyone.

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  India is a huge country with lots of wealth inequality.

  While there have been gains in the last decade, in some areas it’s still common to not have indoor toilets in every residence, that’s people dealing with poverty.

  It’s not like they just don’t want bathrooms, they can’t afford them.

  Cracking jokes at their expense is very bad form, but there’s an equal chance you were just ignorant and legitimately asking, so I’m leaving the comment up.

  But in any area where “open defecation” is widespread in a community, it’s almost never because everyone prefers it. It’s what happens when the infrastructure for a biological need doesn’t exist. There’s literally no other option.

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It wasn’t a joke. I have a friend in india who says that people are stubborn and just use the street as it’s what they’re used to.

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    • destructdisc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Your “friend”, if they exist, is either a fucking moron and or they’re fucking with you. People everywhere in the country like having toilets and indoor plumbing, sometimes they just can’t afford them because the government has their heads up their own asses

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• november@lemmy.vg ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Predictable comment from someone on a .uk domain.

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It is a genuine question - if that’s their cultural habit, do they even need a toilet. Kind of like how the Chinese don’t really desire better sewage infrastructure because they’re used to binning toilet paper as opposed to flushing it.

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