kwregg

"I so agree with "no desire to go to India"...If I had to pick 3 places I would never want to go India would be all 3. No desire to have to pack food in a suitcase. Part of the fun of vacation is the food and I wouldn't trust anything even in the finest hotel. The begging is the saddest thing and the upper-class don't have sympathy "do give them money, it spoils them" and their opinion of Americans...they want our jobs and our money, but feel our children are "lazy, disrepectful and stupid." Do you work with any from India that have hi-jacked our jobs??? Have you seen the documentaries? Listened to their cultural beliefs? What's beautiful? Maybe the Taj Mahal, but not the faces of the disfigured children and adults, the suffering on the streets and in the slums, their ethics, morality, love of their own people??? I'd sooner visit a leper colony."

Griffy -

I LIVED in India for almost a year. Lived there. I don't need to "see the documentaries," I lived there. If you have never been, please do not judge. It IS a beautiful country. I ate in less-than-fine hotels and restaurants and never once did I get sick - NEVER ONCE! And I ate some of the most fantastic traditional food. I constantly look for Indian food here in the US and have seldom found any that remotely matches up.

You may say that they are trying to steal our jobs, but that wouldn't happen if our companies wouldn't offer. What about their cultural beliefs - are ours better? Hinduism is a beautiful religion and there are many Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jews, etc. living there in harmony (the only really problem area with religious strife is Jammu & Kashmir, but look at the problems they have had in Northern Ireland). How much hate is there still in the United States . . . especially for people from countries we assume to be superior to . . .

I never saw a problem with begging and people telling me not to give. Did you know that a stage of life in the Hindu religion REQUIRES people to become beggars? Have you been to a big city in the US? I have seen beggars and homelessness there as well.

You have not convinced me that you have any reasons not to visit India. You are a perfect example of a *******

No desire ever to go to India.

That is too bad, because there are parts of India that are as beautiful as anyone could imagine - I would go back in a heartbeat.

I can't really say there is some place I wouldn't go. The whole world is so interesting and unique. I would love to experience it all!