Day 117, India, Tamil Nadu, Madurai
After 10 days in India I want to write something about my first impression of this country. A country that belongs to another continent, a country that belongs to another world. I arrived with the conviction: "Either you will love it, or you will hate it." I don't know exactly why but I am not hating it and also not extremely loving it. I like the country and the way of life, but it is not the expected impact in my mind. The reason maybe is because I have already seen and lived many things that are far away from my usual life during the past months. This limits the cultural shock I expected. Poverty was much more impressive in areas I lived in it , as for example the time spent with the tribes in Laos and in some areas of Vietnam and Thailand and Cambodia. The point that impresses me about India is the natural selection of humanity or in other words the contrast of poor and rich. While in tribe areas I have lived with everybody was poor (even the chief village), here you can feel the natural selection of humankind. Here you see how a boy of a rich family falls down and has a little cut on his front and gets the attention of all his relatives and people that are casually around him, while some meters far away there is an old poor man lying on the street and begging for money while he is starving and nobody is interested in him. He is invisible or maybe untouchable. A country full of contrasts, where everybody cares and nobody cares.
After 10 days in India I want to write something about my first impression of this country. A country that belongs to another continent, a country that belongs to another world. I arrived with the conviction: "Either you will love it, or you will hate it." I don't know exactly why but I am not hating it and also not extremely loving it. I like the country and the way of life, but it is not the expected impact in my mind. The reason maybe is because I have already seen and lived many things that are far away from my usual life during the past months. This limits the cultural shock I expected. Poverty was much more impressive in areas I lived in it , as for example the time spent with the tribes in Laos and in some areas of Vietnam and Thailand and Cambodia. The point that impresses me about India is the natural selection of humanity or in other words the contrast of poor and rich. While in tribe areas I have lived with everybody was poor (even the chief village), here you can feel the natural selection of humankind. Here you see how a boy of a rich family falls down and has a little cut on his front and gets the attention of all his relatives and people that are casually around him, while some meters far away there is an old poor man lying on the street and begging for money while he is starving and nobody is interested in him. He is invisible or maybe untouchable. A country full of contrasts, where everybody cares and nobody cares.
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