SPITTING IS COMMON IN INDIA AND THE WEST--


In India specially in North India and i am talking mainly of Delhi spitting is common and has become a problem.Visit a new building specially government buildings. Within two days of the building is brought to use it gets decorated with paan spits on the walls. The sight is yuck ..even the railings where one takes support to climb the floors are covered with spits that one does not like to even keep ones hand there


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I walk on the road , all pavements, walls of houses and buildings are covered by spits. Well I know spitting is a habit , and habit die hard, but the question is that at least people should try to control and if spitting is essential then one should use the right place to spit. I see people spitting right under the NO SPITTING sign

This spitting phenomenon is more common in the males. They eat paan, chew paan masala and tobacco and thus arises the need to spit.
On the roads i have seen people traveling or driving just open the car door or window and just spit on the road. I do understand the urgency of spitting but then there our other human needs which are uncontrollable and urgent but all human beings (accept babies and small children)control it and right place is used. So spitting is also a dirty habit and people should control and not dirty the public spaces. Spits marks all over in Delhi leave a very dirty feeling in us. Why our we insensitive to other people, our city and our country? Why cant everyone from a rickshaw wala to someone in the car understand that it is we who have to keep our city clean. Also spitting all over can lead to certain diseases like tuberculosis and also H1N1.When will we understand and keep our environment clean and fresh---

In Western Europe since the Middle Ages frequent spitting was part of everyday life, and at all levels of society, it was thought ill-mannered to suck back saliva to avoid spitting. By the early 1700s, spitting was seen as something which should be concealed, and by 1859 many viewed the spitting on the floor or street as vulgar, especially in mixed company. Spittoons were used openly during the nineteenth century to provide an acceptable outlet for spitters. Today in the western countries no one spits on the road, even we Indians when travel abroad neither spit nor thhrow garbage on the roads after eating, which is common sight in India specially North. Cities in South India are cleaner than North India . We all are Indians , We all are human beings , why do we behave so differently specially in cases of thinking about our environment. It is a question of great moral concern, we have to change, we have to take steps. If we all try we can why not start the effort...
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