• GBU_28@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Sorry what’s the joke here? Big parts of India has issues with sanitation

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      11 months ago

      Sorry! Didnt mean to offend! Indians typically use their hands to wipe their butts with water. I think it is cleaner and uses less water relatively. The joke I intended to make was that India has been using water to wash themselves for several years whereas the west needed the invention of a bidet to force the change.

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        11 months ago

        Its almost like westerners came up with the germ theory of disease tranamission and adjusted their sanitation methods to prevent it.

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          11 months ago

          I agree! But also both Hinduism and Islam had cleanliness rituals baked into their religion. Maybe they were able to notice historically that periodic bathing multiple times a day, helped them to avoid diseases!

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            11 months ago

            Honestly humans are stupid and it is so interesting what we learned to do for sometimes awful reasons that turned out to be pretty good for us. I mean a lot of medicine was “getting the devil out of you” for a long time and it sometimes happened to work because people would just do random shit.