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> From: Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [Goanet] An Inconvenient truth/Sunith
>
> What continues to confound me, however, is the utter
> lack of civic sense and respect in India for the
> physical space of the general public and one's
> neighbors. This manifests itself in the urinating
> and defecating in public, the spitting and throwing
> of thrash wherever one can get away with it and the
> strange transformation from sane to insane as soon
> as a car door closes behind the driver.
> >
> What makes westerners, who are a cut below in
> intellect, a cut above in basic civic sense? I hope
> and pray that it is better education, better
> literacy rates and better economic conditions that
> will change these disgusting and embarrassing
> Indian traits as time goes by.
>
--- "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:
>
> It appears that MG would like to pass on this
> publication to his Indian counterparts in the hope
> that they may develop into western clones.
>
Mario observes:
>
I can see that such sneering and derisive reactions
equating simple civic sense to "western clones" that
help to cause the lack of civic sense in India to
continue unabated.
>
How about the poor Latin American countries, Kevin?
Their slum dwellers use their public toilets and don't
feel the need to urinate and defecate in public. None
of their people habitually spit all over the place
regardless of who is in the area.
>
So much for becoming western clones.
>
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