There was a recent column in the online Wall Street Journal in which the columnist said that Indians were not " civilized" ,because the men urinate in the streets, we do not follow traffic signals, we dump garbage on our door steps , we tend to jump queues and so on. A number of comments to the article all agreed with him.
All the points made are true - but they all seem to be missing the point. Its not that the Indians are not civilized . The same people who go abroad follow the rules and don't do all of the above things. Why does our behavior change and we become civilized ?
Very simple. Its because over there if we don't follow the rules we will be fined , arrested or be ostracized. In India we do it because " my father is a MP, Chief Secretary, DSP Police " or because you can pay off the enforcer. Until that changes in India, where you get arrested for bribery or it becomes irrelevant whose son or daughter you are, we will continue to be chameleons - " uncivilized " in India and " civilized" when we go abroad.
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