- In a café or cyber the workers treat the music system as their own and play whatever they like .. Very loudly. ..I guess since they get paid so low that's an excuse.
- Ask too much - I help people all the time, but some people take me for granted.

- They do on the street what normal people only do in a toilet.
- Instead of respecting Mother Earth as you'd expect in a "spiritual country" they treat the whole area outside the house as a great garbage heap and toilet.
- Instead of respecting other peoples rights they just think for themselves.

- In a cyber café I left my computer for a while, and when I come back, the worker is sat there reading my emails ... in another country that would be outrageous .. In India it's almost what I expect.

- People are always spitting here .. This is strange .. apart from sometimes when I run I have nothing to spit ..

- India must have phlegm reserves like other countries have oil. Maybe it's their diet ?

- I just listened to the BBC Crossing Continents documentary about the Gay Raja of Gujurat. What a hero that guy is. It made me realise that Indians live in a Fantasy World not the Real World. By bringing some truth into the world he opened up the situation for improvement.

- Hospital statistics showed that there is a HIV problem, but Gujurat people have been pretending that there are no gays, so there is no need to tackle the problem from that angle. Therefore basically the problem was not being tackled at all ... so nothing improved. So he stood up and said "I'm gay, I've been having sex with men all my life, and I know many men who do the same even though they are married. And I'm going to start a safe sex campaign to educate these men to do things like use condoms so they don't catch HIV and spread it to their wives", What a flaming hero; that guy stood up told the truth and saved many lives.

- Of course he was ostracised by his own family .."the shame of it, there are no gays in the royal families", Well if 6% of the world population are gay then surely 6% of the royals are. Cos he stood up, he was example to others, men could say to their wives that they needed to use condoms etc.

- To make improvements to a situation you must have truth, but Indian culture is centred around myths even more than other cultures. e.g. That a woman must go from complete virgin the moment before marriage to sex expert the night after. That all marriages are pefect so there is no need for divorce etc.
- And there must be so much falseness caused by religion, like to have a good harvest a farmer must donate money to the temple etc. Like a denial that Indian people are people in the same way as westerners etc .."No Indians are special, we don't get the same diseases as foreigners".

- They'd rather accept the artificial world of TV and movies than what they see on the street with their own eyes. Typical comments about movie Slumdog Millionaire were : "How dare those foreigners say that India has slums, inequality and dirt !". Many are outraged even though all those things are true, cos they grown accustomed to living in a Fantasy World. Indian movies are all glamour so there is denial about dirt and poverty.

- It's a case of the 3 monkeys : see no evil, hear no evil & speak no evil. The average Indian doesn't want to see problems within India so they avert their eyes, they don't want hear about problems within India either so foreigners are at fault for speaking of evil,

- BUT Without the truth you can't make improvements, because there is denial about there being slums, inequality and dirt these problems are left unfixed while people continue to think about the next nice new shiny cellphone they will buy.

- Yes I criticize cos I care about people. In the past people have been too kind by focusing on the positives so people have thought it's acceptable not to make the necessary improvements so I think it's important to give them a kick up the arse. Look Indians you live in a toilet now fix it up ! Don't blame others, show us you are as good as the Germans and get rid of the slums and corruption I know you are as good as any man so prove it.

- It's like the people responsible say "the streets look pretty clean I'll think I'll take another day off work and go to the temple".
- No, No, No it's not OK, don't take any more days off to waste at the temple until the problems are fixed.

- My Theory : It seems that most Indians care about the inside of their own house and immediate family and nothing else, whereas I would see the whole world as my family and the whole Earth as my bedroom.
- So you don't drop garbage at the top of the hill cos eventually that will end up in the water that the guy at the bottom of the hill drinks.

- Not My Family - I can draw parallels from what I saw in Latin Countries principly the idea of family i.e. that Latin American politicians go on about family, but when they get elected they just help their own immediate family. They don't care about anyone else. Whereas I hold as what you might call a Modern European cultural view (not particularly European just modern) that the whole world is my family.

- Not My Bedroom Space - I can draw parallels with what I have seen in Asia about dirty streets. Locals who take great pride in the inside of their house don't care about anything outside their house or public spaces as they don't see that as their territory.

- A hot country thing about not thinking through your actions, but just doing today with no account for the future consequences, cos it doesn't matter as tomoroow will be a sunny day like today.

- Maybe also people who are poor and always be poor because of corruption by the rich are also less likely tohave any sense of ownership over the town streets.