Re: Emigrating to a Foreign Land! Quote:
Originally Posted by alpha1 To all those contemplating or in path of immigrating to foreign lands: what is it that you really hate about India that made you decide to leave?
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As other people have said earlier, hate is a strong word for the sentiment but let me take a stab at it as well.
I spent a couple of years in Japan and a couple of years in England, both of these long-ish excursions changed me as a person. The assertiveness and borderline aggression that is necessary in India, simply isn't required to get anything done there.
For me, the linchpin for this discussion is the low value for human life, and the corruption in the system. And it's not dealt with only when applying for a passport every 10 years, it's a daily occurrence, look at the roads we travel on, the piles of garbage we cross, the quality of infrastructure we build, the policemen we 'fear'. And the 'culture' we brag about, doesn't hold a candle to the kind of daily road rage, or physical intimidation, or sexual predation, among others.
A person with clout and monies can get away with financial embezzlement, tax aversion, rape or even murder, that's just the baabu culture that we have promoted for decades and decades, and it isn't going away anytime soon.
As a hard-working tax paying citizen, I don't despise the taxes I pay, I despise how little how everyone else gets away with.
Given a realistic chance, I wouldn't want to raise my kid amongst such an atmosphere and values. Anyone not contemplating emigration is either constrained, which I completely and totally understand, or is in a loop of myopic self-righteousness. |