--- Gabriel de Figueiredo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Civics may have been a subject taught at high > school, but has any civic sense been imparted to the > students? Such as "If I throw my rubbish on the > street it might affect some one else"? > > One might expect this sort of behaviour (of chucking > rubbish outside the window) from uneducated people. > But from a doctor - and that too a pediatrician? > Mario replies: Gabriel, It has nothing to do with education. It is one of the mysteries of the universe why Indians in India, arguably the most intelligent humans ever created by God - or from a vacuum, as some would have us believe - continue to have the most reckless disregard for the most basic civic responsibilities or niceties. Actually, throwing rubbish on someone else's property is one of the more benign habits of our desis, exceeded by other well known sights for any tourist to enjoy, such as the entire country being one huge optional spitoon, not to mention one huge "al fresco" optional public toilet.
When India is described as having the most freedoms in the world, they're not kidding. Outside India, surely you have noticed the difference in behavior at an all-Indian function, where Indian habits and Indian Standard Time apply, and those same Indians at a mixed function, where their behavior is exemplary and their timing punctual? As I said, one of the mysteries of the universe.
