Something That Bugs Me About Westerners In India
I’m getting more and more bugged as the weeks have gone by about Westerners in India. For some strange, unknown reason, they are all insisting on ‘immersing themselves in the culture’ by wearing traditional Indian clothes.
By that, I mean the guys wear a kind of wrap-around fabric – like a sarong – and a long sleeved garment that comes down to around your knees and sandels to top it off. The women wear sari’s (badly) or baggy trousers with the same long sleeved garment.
The thing that bugs me the most is that, yes, at one point these were traditional Indian clothes, but now you are more likely to see (particularly amongst the growing middle-classes) Indians wearing jeans or trousers with a t-shirt or shirt. So if India is moving on in their dress sense, why do the Westerners in India insist on wearing old fashioned clothes?!
I know it’s a small and irrational thing to get bugged about, but hey, it bugs me.
There are many other things that bug me about how Westerners act in India, but if I air them all, I’m in danger of turning this in to an anti-west blog!
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