Copying things

India has a habit of copying Western ideas, but getting them subtly and fundamentally wrong. Take the 'trade union' cartels, or the speed bumps in fast roads, or the plastic wrapped station food. The lack of food hygiene is a problem in India, and it's not an unknown problem. As a result its effectively required that all rail station food in India is polythene wrapped. But naturally this completely ignores any other aspect of hygiene. It's still the same bacteria laden food prepared on unwashed chopping boards with unwashed knives with unwashed or rinsed hands. It's not much more than a polymer based incubator, keeping in the water which is so very precious to all organisms. Of course this damning view is complete fabrication, my sample is only from watching two stands preparing their food during my many station hours, some places will naturally have better hygiene than others, but the packaging is so misguided that it is painful. I've tested this theory, and while I managed not to throw up out of the bus window (there is someone on every journey) the food did make me nauseous.

Because creativity isn't taught here. I've mentioned before, some Indians are taught from a young age not to think. You watch school children copying (tracing) drawings, but ask them to draw it themselves, and they wont try. (My samples are small and my generalisations extreme. In a way my criticisms are almost a deliberate parody of the 'its all wrong here' foreigner, but this is the scene in a dystopian horror where the narrative character starts pulling his hair out in frustration and screaming 'think, damn you, think for yourselves')