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07-08-2015, 01:53 PM
If only you knew how bad things really are.
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07-08-2015, 01:58 PM
I have a feeling being a tribal woman in India with little to no food or healthcare, has more of an influence on birth weight than where you choose take a shit.
But then again I went to state college.
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07-08-2015, 02:09 PM
Quote: (07-08-2015 01:58 PM)LINUX Wrote:
I have a feeling being a tribal woman in India with little to no food or healthcare, has more of an influence on birth weight than where you choose take a shit.
But then again I went to state college.
Actually, many believe poor sanitation is more at play with India's health problems than caloric intake. Chronic digestive disease prevents absorption of nutrients and calories in the intestines.
From NYTimes:
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It is a question being asked about children across India, where a long economic boom has done little to reduce the vast number of children who are malnourished and stunted, leaving them with mental and physical deficits that will haunt them their entire lives. Now, an emerging body of scientific studies suggest that Vivek and many of the 162 million other children under the age of 5 in the world who are malnourished are suffering less a lack of food than poor sanitation.
Like almost everyone else in their village, Vivek and his family have no toilet, and the district where they live has the highest concentration of people who defecate outdoors. As a result, children are exposed to a bacterial brew that often sickens them, leaving them unable to attain a healthy body weight no matter how much food they eat.
NYTimes: Poor Sanitation in India
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07-08-2015, 02:21 PM
In the background of this story is the Indian economy turning out more computer scientists and programmers than civil engineers.
Arguably, with China next door, it's the failure of representative democracy.
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07-08-2015, 04:32 PM
I once went running and toward the end I really had to take a shit, so I did on my neighbor's lawn. This caused me a certain, though ephemeral, guilt and it will surely fuck up my unborn child.
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07-08-2015, 04:38 PM
Everyone should experience taking a shit in nature at least once in their life. You got crickets chirping around you, the babbling of a nearby stream and you're looking up at the stars while you drop a deuce.
Problem with the Indians is they do it even in the cities.
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07-08-2015, 04:51 PM
Quote: (07-08-2015 04:38 PM)speakeasy Wrote:
Everyone should experience taking a shit in nature at least once in their life. You got crickets chirping around you, the babbling of a nearby stream and you're looking up at the stars while you drop a deuce.
Problem with the Indians is they do it even in the cities.
I used to think that. Then I took a dump while floating in the ocean. I now understand why some women choose to do a water birth.
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07-08-2015, 08:32 PM
Also an issue in Mainland China.
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07-09-2015, 03:40 AM
The problem is more severe than it seems.
The difference between piss and shit is night and day. Piss is a sterile mixture of actually beneficial nutrients that was even used for sterilization in WWI and WWII (if you don't have anything better). You can use piss for healthy and good fertilizer and even medicine to some degree.
Shit however is a toxic dump of our bodies - absolutely not suitable for anything but a long process of natural reintroduction into nature.
The biggest problem is that they are shitting in the fields where they grow food. So essentially India's local food supply is tainted by human shit and this is not something that we can eat. But many Indians do eat it and tourists do so too by proxy. India is associated with diarrhea for a reason.
Another point is of course the fact that people step into shit everywhere they go and flies stick to it. Next thing the fly comes and sit on your face or on your food spreading fecal bacteria onto your food. Even animals have the instinct of burying their shit in nature, whenever they can. The barest minimum of civilization is a latrine, where you dig a hole, shit into it and when full, bury the crap. When I was in the military on some exercises in the deep woods, one of the first things aside from setting up camp was to dig a deep hole for a latrine.
A lot of the unwillingness to change in India stems from tradition. They have even people who live in the cities and still continue that practice, because it feels more "natural" to them. That proves that if it is natural to carve out 10 people's hearts every morning, then people get used to it and call it natural. "What? We have always been killing 10 people each morning just for good luck, why stop a perfectly good tradition?"
In some instances you gotta do it by force and fines. When education in Europe for children was started there was a huge resistance of the peasants. They had to send out the army to collect 6 year olds for school. The people will resist even changes they will benefit from, just because it goes against their previous experience.
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07-09-2015, 03:45 AM
One of many reasons why India will always be "the world's next superpower"
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07-09-2015, 04:25 AM
Actually in china, I have never seen anyone above the age of 8(?) shit in public. Sanitation is certainly not up to par with the west but miles ahead of India.
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07-09-2015, 05:06 AM
With a population of one billion in India. There is another way of looking at this statistic.
500,000,000 or 50% of the Indian population now use toilets to crap in. A testiment to the advance of India as a more modern and civilised nation. This is not a bad statistic but a good one!
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07-09-2015, 06:27 AM
As Speakeasy pointed out this was never a issue when you had people in rural villages taking dumps in a back medow, but with rapid urbanization you turn towns and cities into bio-zones quickly doing stuff like this.
In Victoria London when they would throw thier shit in the streets from the chamber pots it all just ran downstream and back into the water killing people from cross a contamination.
This is a case of modernization happening faster then rural cultures can adjust. I don't know if it more education that is needed but a middle ground has to be met. In other developing nations they still squat to shit but they build a sanitary drop hole which is incased in concrete for them to shit in.