Today, I'll share my own embarrassing, unsettling misunderstandings of another culture while visiting Old Delhi, India.
My husband and I decided to stray from our safe air-conditioned, carpeted hotel to visit the markets in Old Delhi. We entered a narrow alley crowded with shoppers, shopkeepers, motorcycles, rickshaws, and animals. Throngs of people pushed their way past us. On both sides of the alley was a crazy mix of shops. Tire outlets that also sold live chickens. Butchers. Food shops. Spice shops. Clothing. An open drain ran alongside the alleyway, pulling along rotten food, feces, plastic containers, and other unidentifiable stuff.
As we stumbled forward trying to find our way out, a small woman who looked dwarfed in a dirty Punjabi suit several sizes too large for her thin body -- reached out her arm, stopping me.
“Where are you from, manji?” she asked.
“We’re from the United States,” I answered, trying to push past her.
And then she said, “I have heard that is where people are so rude, they wear the same shoes inside the house that they use to walk on the street. Is this true? And is it really true that you wipe your poop with paper and smear it around instead of cleaning yourself properly with water?”
This video describes 3 relationship lessons I learned that day.
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