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Subservience seems to be ingrained into Indian culture [...] I understand that in a hotel but even out on the street everyone defers to me. Uh. You're also a white man, there on business. I'm not sure your experience is indicative of the treatment persons who are not white men there on business would receive.
Um...sure I get it that they're deferring to me because I'm obviously a foreigner but even the people that I'm working with tell me that this is the way that Indians treat all guests so I'm not sure if "white" is it rather than "foreign". Either way, the subservience to foreigners is ingrained into the culture and is still kind of unnerving. I tell them that they don't have to do the bowing and scraping but I can't really convince them.
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Uh. You're also a white man, there on business. I'm not sure your experience is indicative of the treatment persons who are not white men there on business would receive.
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I might go a little further and say "beaten into the society by the British"?
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