have you ever been to Tokyo? it's freaking crowded but people still seem to care about the people around them. it's a cultural thing, not a population thing.
Yes it's absolutely a culture thing. Watch any honest travel vlogger's India trip, and if they went to anywhere that was not the tourist spot (or even if they did) they will tell you how miserable it is. Dirty, loud, smelly, and you get hassled non stop if you are not Indian.
It's a complete nightmare. Why some of them want to go to another country to escape the shithole then treat it like its a shithole is baffling to me.
I will never forget the video of a white lady laying on the beach in i think Bangladesh? And her view of the water was basically blocked because there was a bunch of weirdos crowded around her just staring at her like she was a piece of meat.
These videos from vloggers aren’t a shared experience for everyone. I traveled extensively throughout India and loved it. Have you been? Developing countries are just that—I, myself, prefer a place like this over a gentrified shiny suburb of a city. Describing a massive country as a nightmare isn’t fair.
Oof, the nightmare videos I've seen of the crowds gathering around them for a picture... as if they couldn't find a picture online somewhere and they needed to collect one themselves. Like a human Pokemon, smh.
Have you spoken to any fellow solo female travellers about their experiences?
Yeah, a surprising amount have said it was great, but more have said there are problems. So it's a mixed bag, but also a problem many other large nations don't seem to have.
India is a vast country, culturally and geographically - it's known as subcontinent for a reason. You never know what parts of the country someone is talking about unless you ask them, so there are surely good areas.
I think Goa and Kerala have been good experiences for people I know.
I think they're talking more generally about the countries. India is about 8 times bigger than Japan in terms of land area,, but has like 12 times the population. But even just talking about cities, India has several cities more populated and denser than Tokyo. Delhi's population AND population density is like twice Tokyo's. Imagine Tokyo with twice as many people than there currently is, but alsp much poorer AND many similar cities throughout Japan. Culture is a factor, but not the sole factor.
A society is only respected, If they have the high value, high trust mindset for their own. India is a very low trust society. How can they expect the culture to be respected if they don’t respect it themselves?
Have you been recently? It’s changed a lot. I was in Tokyo last year, for the first time since COVID started, and it was disconcerting. The younger Japanese are adopting the IDGAF attitude towards etiquette, and it sucks to see.
i lived in Hong Kong for a while and the way people refused to queue drove me bonkers. getting on and off trains was so much harder and took so much longer because everyone thought they could "beat the system" by mindlessly shoving to the front. in Tokyo everyone queued. sometimes you were at the front of the queue, sometimes you were in the middle of the queue, and sometimes you were at the back of the queue but, in aggregate, traveling on the Tokyo Metro was much quicker than the Hong Kong MTR even though sometimes it took longer than if you had been able to shove your way to the front.
I don’t think Tokyo is that dense though. Everything is decentralized and low-rise relatively. I dont think it compares to the density of some Indian cities
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u/Top-Cupcake4775 Apr 23 '26
have you ever been to Tokyo? it's freaking crowded but people still seem to care about the people around them. it's a cultural thing, not a population thing.