【社会】我从印度的交通等多维度谈论想离开印度的原因_风闻

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Ashish Kushwaha

Traffic:

“Chutiya hai kya?” (You are an asshole), yelled the driver in the car passing by us on an Indian road when I told my brother to follow the rules, keep the gaps, and drive in an organized way, so we could at least play our part in the chaos. This was the time I was in India after spending three years in the US, and I was a big fan of making small difference on your own, to make a wholesome change.

交通：

“你是傻瓜吗？”一位司机在印度的公路上超车时大声喊道。当时我正告诉我弟弟要遵守交通规则，保持车距，有序驾驶，这样我们至少能在这个混乱的交通环境中尽自己的一份力。那是我在美国生活三年后回到印度的时候，我曾是这样一个理念的坚定支持者：通过自己做出的小改变，可以促成整体上的大变化。

Adulteration:

Every time I hear of the times they sell milk with white paint, vegetables with spary-on colors, and what not, it just makes me cringe, and all I say, “I don’t want my child to be eating this shit!”. I hate how every person is just so selfish.

掺假：

每次听到他们往牛奶里掺白色油漆，给蔬菜喷上色素之类的事情，我都感到不寒而栗，心里只想说：“我不想让我的孩子吃这些垃圾！”我讨厌每个人都这么自私。

Obliviousness:

My friend bought a new battery for her laptop and asked if there is a procedure to discard the old one, they laughed at us and said, “Aap bhi madam, fenk dena koode me” (What are you talking about madam, just throw it in the trash).

不知觉性：

我的一个朋友为她的新笔记本电脑买了一块新电池，询问是否有回收旧电池的程序，结果别人嘲笑我们说：“你也太认真了吧，女士，直接扔进垃圾桶就好了。”

What is resources conservation?!

My parents always stressed on saving water and electricity as much as possible. Not because they couldn’t afford, but because there is nothing worse than wasting resources for no reason. At the same time, I grew up watching the people in the neighborhood ‘watering’ the street for hours, not only wasting water, but also flooding the streets; wasting water for hours after their tanks are full, we had to knock on their doors once every week on an average to tell them they got to switch off the pumps, before we saw the water wastage for hours. I have seen people not buzz even once before taking down a perfectly green huge tree just because they wanted to make a bigger terrace. They even start fighting if we try to suggest anything around it.

什么是节约资源？！

我父母总是强调要尽可能节约用水和用电。不是因为负担不起，而是因为没有任何理由浪费资源。同时，我长大的过程中也看到邻居们长时间“浇灌”街道，不仅浪费水资源，还造成街道积水；他们的水箱满了之后还任由水白白流走，我们几乎每周都得去敲他们的门，提醒他们关掉水泵，以免水资源浪费。我也见过人们在没有事先通知的情况下，为了扩建露台而砍掉一棵长势良好的大树。如果我们提出任何建议，甚至会发生争吵。

On the subject of per capita energy consumption, all I ask for is the frugality. You can consume the resources if they are in abundance. Otherwise, limit the waste, at least (if my opinion matters, I am not even asking for limiting the consumption, I am not asking for an ascetic life. For example, I don’t like SUVs driven in India, not because of fuel issues, but because of space and emissions. For the same reason, SUV is an option in some other regions. Even in America, I recycle laundry water in the toilet, and never leave lights/fan/AC or my car running when I am not using them.)

关于人均能源消耗，我所要求的只是节俭。如果资源充足，你可以随意使用。否则，至少限制浪费（我的看法是否还算重要，我并不是在要求减少消费，也不是在倡导苦行僧式的生活。比如，我不喜欢在印度看到SUV，原因不是因为油耗，而是考虑到空间占用和排放问题。出于同样的原因，在其他一些地区，SUV是一个可行的选择。甚至在美国，我也会把洗衣水循环利用来冲马桶，绝不会在不使用的时候让灯、风扇、空调或汽车空转。））

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Exploitation:

I literally teared up every time I saw cops beating up an old man or some weak street vendor, who was working hard for hours in the June sun, but couldn’t make enough to ‘pay’ them. And I can’t change it, so I would better like to not live in such community, so blatantly discarding human values.

剥削：

每次看到警察殴打一个老人或弱小的街头小贩——他们在阳光下辛苦工作了好几个小时，却赚不够钱来“孝敬”警察，我都会感到心痛。我无法改变这一切，所以宁愿不生活在这样一个公然践踏人类价值观的社区。

I don’t care the weather is generally hot, I don’t care there is not enough power, I don’t care there is not enough resources for everyone. No country is perfect, and no country is all-gifted, but I just cringe when I see people making things way worse because of their acts and because they are so selfish they don’t even care. And worse, they ridicule you, and yell at you if you try to change this. We are so proud of our malls, and imitation of West, and dream to be a first world country, when a majority behaves like a third world land. I would rather not be a part of such a community, because I will look at this crap, and curse myself.

我不在乎天气热，不在乎电力不足，也不在乎资源匮乏。没有哪个国家是完美的，也没有哪个国家天生就拥有一切，但当我看到人们因为自私行为而使情况变得更糟时，我感到厌恶。更糟糕的是，如果有人试图改变这一切，他们还会遭到嘲笑和斥责。我们为自己的购物中心和对西方的模仿感到骄傲，梦想成为第一世界国家，而大多数人的行为却像第三世界国家。我宁愿不成为这样一个社区的一部分，因为我看到这些乱象，然后会自责。

I miss my parents and my family so bad, and it hurts so bad that I can’t see them often. They are getting old and I am not with them in this, and I always regretted this.

我非常想念我的父母和我的家人，不能经常见到他们让我非常痛苦。他们正在变老，而我却没能陪在他们身边，我总是为此感到遗憾。

Edit 1: Can we stop criticizing the US? This post is not about “Why do you want to go to the US?”

Edit 2: I am not saying everything in the country is screwed up, but I have given factors that I will not be able to avoid in daily life and are excruciatingly shocking for me. You are most welcome to start/answer a thread “Why do you not want to leave India?”. Also, I will be deeply indebted to India for making me everything that I am today, and I don’t intend to flaunt, but I am already doing things for some underprivileged groups of Indian people.

编辑1：我们能停止批评美国吗？这篇文章不是关于“你为什么想去美国？”

编辑2：我并不是说国内的一切都不好，但我提供了一些我日常生活中无法避免且让我极度震惊的因素。你完全可以开始/回答一个话题“你为什么不想离开印度？”。同时，我会对印度深表感激，因为是它塑造了今天的我，我无意炫耀，但我已经在为一些印度弱势群体做事了。

Sreehari Variar

Exactly, exactly, exactly! Couldn’t be more right! And people giving you all sorts of crap when you point things out. Example, when I get in a cab I ask where the seat belt is or why the driver is using high beam on a crowded well lit city street. First you get ignored by oblivious driver and then ridiculed by traveled, educated friend/colleague.

Everyday!

完全同意，说得非常对！当你指出问题时，人们却对你说各种废话。比如，我坐出租车时会问安全带在哪里，或者问司机为什么在拥挤且照明良好的城市街道上使用远光灯。通常，你首先会被漠不关心的司机忽视，然后被那些有旅行经验、受过教育的朋友/同事嘲笑。这种情况几乎每天都在发生！

Ashish Kushwaha

Oh boy, thanks!! I forgot to mention the high beams, an utter example of top-level stupidity.

哦，天哪，谢谢！我忘了提到远光灯，这真是顶级愚蠢的典型例子。

Nitin Halbhavi

And one of the major unrecorded cause of accidents in major hubs!

这可是大城市中未被记录的事故主要原因之一！