"Fun and fun, but you must remember what I say below. First of all, take care of your own items, there are more thieves here, especially in the market. Then there is eating, don't run around with meat, even if you buy a piece of mutton in a store, don't take it to the next store, respect the customs of the country, and don't make trouble for yourself. After getting into the car, Hong Tao rubbed his injured arm that had been bitten and twisted by them, and started class again.

"Why? Isn't it allowed to eat meat in public here?" Lily is a carnivore, every meal is meatless, and she will never eat anything else if she can eat meat, I am afraid that she will make up for all the losses she has lost in the first 20 years.

"It's not that you don't want to eat meat in public, it's because ...... Nandna, explain to them, I don't know much about the caste system, and the food habits. Hong Tao opened his mouth, but he was stunned and couldn't find where to start saying the right thing. He is also the first to get a glimpse of the situation in Indian society, as long as someone asks a question, he will immediately get stuck, it is better to let someone who understands it to introduce it, so that he still looks extraordinarily profound.

Nandena's part of the story is another way to distinguish between castes, vegetarians! Some people may mistakenly think that Indian monks are vegetarians, but they are wrong! In India, the higher the caste, the more vegetarian they are, the more untouchables they are, the more they can eat meat at will, and of course, they must be able to afford it. Nandena also used herself as an example, she is a vegetarian and does not eat meat, but can drink milk and eat eggs. Her mother, on the other hand, was a vegan and didn't even eat milk and eggs. There is also a type called Jain, who are stricter. You can't even eat things like potatoes and robbs. Because they think that when they dig up potatoes, they may kill the little bugs in the soil. The food is contaminated with meat.

In fact, Hong Tao didn't mean to embarrass Nandena, but just asked her to give these women a brief introduction to Indian customs. Don't let them go out and get into trouble. But she didn't seem to care about introducing some embarrassing situations in her country to a few foreigners, and she expanded the introduction as she spoke, so that several women in the car, including Hong Tao, forgot everything else, and listened to her vernacular attentively, even forgetting the city style outside the car window.

Nandena talks a lot about various aspects of Indian society, mostly about the caste system. This caste system is already the foundation of Indian society, and it is indispensable for almost everything.

Take education, for example. One of the official languages of India is English, but English is not as widespread in India as we think. Most of the people who can speak English are high-caste people, and low-caste and untouchable people basically do not know English, and even if they have learned some basic English in primary education, most of them have forgotten or are not enough to reach the level of conversation. Although the government stipulates that 22.5% of the places in universities must be reserved for untouchables, this indicator is not a non-existent indicator for untouchables. Rather, because they have been discriminated against since childhood, they have not been able to complete primary education and enter universities.

Another example is the gap between the rich and the poor, which is even worse in India than in China. The rich of the upper castes died of wealth. Every day is a life of gold and silver, luxury and lasciviousness, and low-caste families cannot guarantee even the most basic living facilities, such as drinking water, electricity, medical care, education, insurance, etc. It's all about living by luck. Like China, they go to the cities to work. But because of the caste system, there are a lot of jobs that they can't do. You can only do the lowest jobs, not even cleaning houses and yards, because this is the work of the lower castes, more advanced than washing toilets and sweeping the streets.

Most of the time, they don't sit on the roof of the train because it's too crowded, they don't take the train because they can't afford a ticket, the main reason is because they're untouchables and can't get into the car. In India, there is a grading system for seats on trains, airplanes, cinemas, theaters, and stadiums, and people of different castes are not allowed to mix seats.

In principle, people of different castes are not allowed to intermarry, and once they have children, they must be untouchables! But there can be an exception between Brahmins and Kshatriyas, and Kshatriya girls who want to marry into the Brahmin family have to pay double the dowry, and marriage is certainly not allowed. But there are also beautiful women in the lower castes, what if a man from the upper caste is not taboo like Hong Tao? It's easy to do, as long as the two parties don't get married, there is no limit to communication. But high-caste men had to go to the temple often to bathe in milk and salt to get rid of the low-caste pollution.

The caste system has even affected the entertainment industry, and Hong Tao's previous belief that movie actors are all low-caste is actually wrong. To put it bluntly, you can play the role of whatever caste you are, so if you want to make a movie that contains several caste characters, you have to find an actor who conforms to these caste identities, and if you let a low-caste actor play a high-caste role, it is absolutely not okay! I remember that there was an old movie in India called "The Wanderer", in which Raz was a pariah, didn't he say that the thief's son will always be a thief! This sentence basically illustrates the principle of the caste system, class solidification!

In later generations, there was an Indian female parliamentarian who was born as a pariah, and she was also the first untouchable parliamentarian in India. However, this is a scam, even the Indian nationals and the foreign media. The councilwoman's father was a Brahmin caste, and she was indeed a pariah herself, but she lived a very prosperous life and studied abroad. Putting her in parliament is nothing more than a fig leaf for the Indian government to whitewash the façade, and even so, they are not willing to let a real pariah be the decoration.

When it comes to India's democracy, it's even more unreliable. India's institutional system is a democracy, but Indian society is not. India's elections are very interesting, basically a village or a town votes are concentrated in one candidate. Why? Because the elders, village chiefs, town chiefs and so on in this area must be held by the high castes. Their rights are very large, and the villagers must get married and have children with his consent, and can even decide the life and death of the villagers. So his will is the will of all the villagers, and he says that whoever you choose, everyone has to choose, unless you want to be driven out of the village and really become a homeless man.

Then some people say, wandering is wandering, just like in Thailand, why don't we become monks! Monks must all have the surname Brahmin, and you still want to be a monk? Dream! You can't even enter the temple gate, and the low-caste people can only go to the special low-caste temples to worship, and the untouchables don't even have the opportunity to enter the temple.

"Nandna, our hotel hasn't arrived yet?" Nandena said for more than half an hour, and Hong Tao realized that the hotel was too far away from the pier? Even if the traffic situation in Mumbai is very bad, and the streets are full of motorized tricycles and ox carts, it should always be there after driving for so long, Mumbai is not a very large city, although it has a large population.

"Oh, sorry, I forgot to mention that I didn't book a hotel, but borrowed a villa with my brother, right in the Bandera district, 2 or 3 km away. Compared to staying in a hotel, living at home should be more comfortable, more convenient, and safer. It's all rich and decent...... and it's more decent," Nandena pointed to the north, now that the car was passing a bridge, the other side of the river seemed to be really different from this side, the specific difference was like the feeling of Pudong New District and the old town.

"Isn't this too much trouble for you and your brother, we only stayed for a few days. "Hong Tao knows the way these lawyers behave, they are standard egoists, and they will not get up early if they don't seek profit. Now that Nandena is so polite, she must not be holding back her fart, and there is no point in accepting a favor plainly.

"It's not a hassle, my brother's family doesn't usually live here, they still have a place to live on the seaside. And with servants, cooks and drivers, it's more suitable for first-time visitors to Mumbai, where the food and transportation are not as good as those in Europe and the United States. Nandena is still insisting, and the reasons really don't sound far-fetched.

"I don't like to stay in a hotel! we don't like to stay in a hotel!" was Paris's interjection, excited at the words maid, cook, and chauffeur. These days on the ship, she, who has been calling others since childhood, can basically only act as a maid and a cook, and Nikki and Nicole basically think the same as her, nodding their heads incessantly.

"Okay, then thank you so much, I'll explain what you've done to the Foundation and make the necessary compensation. Hong Tao can't teach these 3 guys who interject indiscriminately in front of Nandena, he can only express his gratitude.

Nandena's brother's family lives in a small community, but it is not a high-rise, but a three-story independent small western-style building. Although it only has a small backyard, it is quite spacious in a city like Mumbai, which is less crowded and more populated. What surprised Hong Tao even more was that there were not only servants, cooks and drivers in his house, but also more than one or two, and as soon as he came out, there was a large row, a full 7 people! plus 2 drivers, that is, 9 people, this Nima is too extravagant!

These servants were clearly low-caste or non-caste, dark-skinned, thin, withered, and extremely lowly in attitude. When Nandena got out of the car, they bowed their heads and bent over, both male and female, as if welcoming the Queen Mother back to the palace. When Radha and the others followed Nandena into the courtyard gate, they found two maids kneeling at the door of the house, and Nandena directly stepped on their lap......s!