Female travelors are assaulted and murdered in Thailand with some frequency. I don’t see anyone saying that it is unreasonably unsafe to travel there. I do think people should exercise common sense and be careful there.
Am I saying it’s like a war zone. Not at all. But what people are too polite to say is that it’s a bad idea if you’re a young and attractive white female to go solo. In my discussion with other travelers online, most have agreed this to this.
I get most traveling requires some common sense and awareness. But I do not want to travel to a country where I can’t feel safe leaving my partner alone. We travel often. In fact we have 3 trips this month to 3 different continents. So it’s not like we don’t understand this.
That’s fair, but didn’t you travel to Thailand more than once in the past year?
Because it is a real issue there, too
She has never been harassed, followed, scammed in Thailand. It’s not a common issue I’ve found from other foreign travelers. They were for India. Even at best the solo female travelers saying it’s safe in India say these things happen often and you just need to be aware.
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Then go by yourself if you are so worried about it.
FWIW, I have brought female Taiwanese SOs to India several times. I left them alone when I had other stuff to do. They did stuff on their own. No problems. One traveled all the way across India by train by herself to visit her friend who was also from Taiwan and lived in her own in a Himalayan hill station. She didn’t have any problems. And keep in mind that East Asian women are highly exotic in India.
But go ahead and just believe what you see on internet videos.
Many first time visitors have a lot of trepidation about India. Bad stuff can definitely happen. But most come back saying that it was amazing and nothing like what they expected. A small minority say it wasnt their thing. Spend a reasonable amount of money and you’ll have very good quality food and accommodation without the horror stories.
You can signficantly reduce these hassles by staying away from the usual big tourist spots. There’s plenty of other things to do in India.
And getting scammed, followed, and harassed at big tourist spots is something that happens to men too.
A friend’s mother in her 60s got robbed of her expensive camera by exercising poor judgment. I once got unbelievably bad food poisoning at a very expensive hotel in Delhi on a business trip. That was pretty weird because I had hundreds and hundreds of meals at cheap eateries and people’s home while cycling without any problems at all. I do have a strong stomach.
Once in Tamil Nadu my male friend and I had a somewhat tense encounter with some drunks at a (illegal I think) liquor store. Other than those things, I have had some pretty great times in India. I’d encourage anyone traveling there to check out the spiritual side of things even if you think it is not for you. India excels at this (and many other things).
I rent one of my rooms to an Afghan who sublet the room to an Indian and her little brother.
He said that Indians are very aggressive and demanding. I’ve had to deal with her too.
This confirms what my buddy who owned a Chinese restaurant has said–they’re always asking for more condiments, etc.
Indians who’ve been in the USA for a while aren’t like that.
Is that like in Taiwan for r India. Indians in Europe seem calm.
Australia has had a gutful of them and their antics
(They even downplayed the illegal immigrant who killed three in Florida supporting him and saying “it wasn’t deliberate so he shouldn’t be in trouble.”)
https://www.news.com.au/technology/motoring/on-the-road/australian-indians-behind-viral-petition-in-support-of-truck-driver-accused-of-killing-three-in-florida/news-story/275830fd7ced966b5da98237f77c2c2a
and finally, Australia had to take measures to stop Indians from abusing our student visa program
In the USA.
I don’t know how they’re like in Taiwan.
But you see, white supremacists hate Indians, because they can’t look down on them like they do on black people, because Indians make more money than white people.
In the US, they have the highest household incomes (Taiwanese-Americans have the highest personal incomes).
In London, more Indians own property than Englishmen.
People throw around these “X group earns more than Y group” lines as if income is about race, but it’s not. They’re about who gets filtered into a country through the immigration system.
Indian migrants in the US, UK, and Australia often earn more than the white majority because the majority of Indians who are allowed to immigrate legally (not counting illegal undocumented immigrants) are already highly educated, fluent in English, and working in high-income professions. It’s a selective pipeline, not a racial trait.
That’s why we need strong immigration policies.
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If you go to banks around here they’re mostly indian too.
No one says it’s a racial trait. But you still can’t look down on people who make more money than you or whom you depend on for a roof over your head or whose taxes are paying for your fetanyl addiction.
A bunch of general assertions about vastly diverse peoples and images posted with no source attached . . . I’m not seeing a lot of value added here to the topic (look at the title of the forum and subforum) of “Discrimination in Taiwan.”
Guy
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Was reading comments, some in Taichung stare at women , scary. Women worry more reading news
https://www.dcard.tw/f/talk/p/256421697
This also scary news up in Taipei area (ttile: An Indian man in Taipei allegedly kidnapped a 3-year-old girl, causing her mother to scream in terror.)
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Is this thread going to become a parade of stereotypes?
Ironically it appears to be intent on enacting rather than extending our understanding of the thread’s topic.
Guy
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Sorry, but these aren’t “stereotypes” this is a very real problem that the Indian community needs to confront. When you have official UK data showing Indian nationals topping sexual-offence statistics, and when similar cases are increasingly popping up in places like Taiwan, it’s not unreasonable to ask why this pattern keeps appearing.
Acknowledging a problem isn’t bigotry, pretending it doesn’t exist helps no one.
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/indian-nationals-commit-highest-sexual-offences-in-uk-report-9167807
Are all of them like that? No. Are a concerning amount of them like that…? The data speaks for itself…
Thank god we don’t have a Fentanyl problem in Australia.
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I think it’s fair to acknowledge that there are indians whose behavior in general deserve to be criticized. I personally have mer indians who would stare at women wrongly, or throw trash anywhere they can find or every other stereotype we know of them
BUT one thing I wish we can also acknowledge is that there are many indians who not only contribute positively to society but also they are fed up with the annoying behavior by the other fellow people.
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