"Don't go to India because ..." Prejudices and Misconceptions Collected

IM sorry, you assumed i was talking about just you,not at all Whats wrong with right now unless you think about it?

one of my sisters said that you would have to pay her to go to india. and as that aint gonna happen i knew that india would be a better place cos people like her wouldn't be there?

peakxv - shit would have to be one of the most widely used words in this wide brown country. and very rarely to describe excrement.

What do you know ...... and all I knew in Aussie lingo before was Sheila and Schooner

...... come to think of it that's all I need to know

crikey, i can think of millions of sentences just using sheila, schooner and shit

I first read that as pretty good start!

If some of these India woe-mongers actually read Indian daly newspapers they'd soon find out how tame their imaginings of what really goes on here are!

My word of warning.... watch out for the IMers here. Especially in Bangalore. Especially Digital Drifter

I only realised it wasn't a pretty good start when Nick commented on it! I had been thinking it was a strange comment to make

I usually get:
Why would you want to go somewhere with all that poverty etc (again, that's not why we're all going there - there's a lot of other things to see!)
Won't you just be ill the whole time?
Aren't you frightened of terrorism? (only as much as at home... if they're gonna get me, they're gonna get me, right?)
Don't try to bring any drugs back! (??? Aussies are obsessed with it lately.. but it makes me wonder if these people know me)
You're going to come back with a husband! (Doubt any nice Indian boy's mother would like me anyway)
Blah blah blah.

Now that most people who know me are aware of how much I like India it's starting to die down, but even Indians that I haven't met before make some of these comments to me!

*DD bites his tongue and plots.....

Thats a new one.

Which land do they say, one will come back with a wife?
just curious.

i'm pretty sure that i got some nasty parasite - eating the lining of my stomach no less - on the plane trip home. food was divine - just be sensible about eating and drinking

Phillipines.

Well, apparently a lot of westerners go there to find wives, it is culturally acceptable to girls to marry men much older than themselves, and the are very, very many who just love the idea of leaving their own country.

Not that I have any personal experience of this.... .... ....

... And my Dad goes to the Philipines regularly too, not sure what kind of people they think we are exactly.

I get the "come back with a husband" one mainly from colleagues, because we've seen a lot of our Indian colleagues go home for a couple of months and come back married

i found that if it was possible indian men would avoid sitting next to me on bus or train - felt like the town pariah .if men did sit next to me they sat on the very edge of the seat. sometimes i just had to have a giggle at this - was a bit of a feminine power trip

Yeah! The one we heard most often was "Don't get religion!"

"Don't go to India because you will catch worms" (even when returning to my office in Europe people are asking if it is ok to be in my office or hug me...!).

Now I have been to India many times, and apart from a moment or two of toilet distress, the only thing I have cought are the smiles of the Indians. It is contagious. :-)

thats not worth the risk. i am from agra and i have read(when i was there) incidents about poisoning by strangers. this has happened in AC compartments too. these incidents never make major headlines, specially in English dailies, but local newspapers regularly report such things.

please don't do that again.