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by saiya-jin 1368 days ago
Can attest to this, numerous times I have been invited to dinner, helped tremendously for no reward and met with just pure humility from dalits (untouchables) when backpacking in India.

I am not claiming that people from other castes behaved badly, in contrary, but when you see how little those people have (ie 3 generations, or 10 members of family sleeping in 1 room 3x3m and that was their whole 'house' - just 4 super basic walls with no roof, nothing else). Coming back to my relatively crappy eastern european country where people constantly complain how poor they are compared to ie germany made me feel sad, ashamed and badly out of touch with my folks...