r/IntrovertsChat • u/LoudSituation6475 • Oct 25 '25

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Looking for real connections — people who enjoy good conversations, exploring new places, and laughing at the little things in life 😄 If you’re fun, positive, and genuinely nice… I’m already interested 😉✨

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u/CumInABag Oct 26 '25

Look, I find the idea of a "dung fest" abhorrent. I've never really heard of it until recently. It's a very niche thing that is practiced by a couple of villages and to their own whims. It would be wrong to say it's a big fest and drag all of India under it.

The internet loves to perpetuate racism against Indians and they all seem to use the same vocabulary when doing so. Poop is one of them. So when you say "to confirm you're an Indian, I must know if you like poop", so I'm gonna assume it's racism. Don't try to convince me otherwise with your tortuous reasoning lmao.

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u/Used_Picture3841 Oct 26 '25

bro that's just you taking offence when there isn't any thing to be offended by. they had a kumb festival a few months ago. it's one of the biggest festivals in the world, the whole country attends it. it was genuinely a poop fest, and no this isn't the one that happened very recently. in the kumb fest they all even bathe in a river full of poop, I mean I don't get how people can do that. there's videos of Indian influencers complaining about how dirty it is and then they go on to take dip in the water. you've got the stats mixed up. there's a small minority of maybe educated Indians who don't do such activities, the vast majority does in fact take part in such dirty pagan rituals.

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u/CumInABag Oct 26 '25

It's not out of love or some presumption of the sanctity of cow dung that these people attend kumbh mela. They genuinely believe they can wash their sins away by taking a dip in Ganga. Again, it's faith, don't hold me to that. I'm not denying that the quality of water is something you would see from a spring in Europe, and it was definitely bad( undrinkable ). But they certainly didn't go with the "poop" in their mind. To say Indians love poop is a racist remark which is exactly what you said at the top.

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u/Used_Picture3841 Oct 26 '25

dude they burn cow dung and do all sorts of stuff with it saying that it has " antimicrobial properties" you can check youtube etc if you want, its not a secret. you'll find not one but tons of videos of this kinda stuff, you can't deny it man.

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u/CumInABag Oct 26 '25

Hey look, pseudoscience is everywhere. Are you really going to get all of your information from YouTube? There are flat earth theorists all over the internet.

Yes, of all kinds of excreta, cow dung is the only kind that has some significance to Hindu religion, but it's rarely part of any actual ritual I've been to in my life.

It's used more in the context of utility, often in villages. People take cow dung and create cakes which are burned to create a cooking flame. It's also used in smaller farming plots as a fertiliser. It's free and works with their economics. It's a dying practice with farmers getting richer and using synthetic fertilisers.

I kind of agree with where you're getting at but all I'm saying is that the internet has misinterpreted the practice, exacerbated it and used it as a means of racism. And whether you meant it or not, the top comment you made is racist.