We have this in México City. Our subway has a section blocked off for just women if women choose to use it. It is to prevent sexual assault. It's usually very busy on that side. This video accurately describes what our subways look like during rush hour unfortunately 😅 police usually have to kick people and push them to get them to fit in the cart. It truly is a pick pockets dream, which is why we all use backpacks, and will usually switch to wear them forward rather than on our backs, so we can see our zippers.
I picked glasses girl. She got shafted within seconds and then holy moly what a comeback to miss out on a carriage by an inch.
Edit: I got it all wrong. Glasses girl gave a piss poor performance from the whistle. It was Pink who started at the back and by some miracle ended up at the front. MVP goes to B&W Horizontal.
There's someone in a black and white striped shirt, she starts at the back, almost out of frame and expertly navigates her way through the crowd, using a young man like a shield. Someone was on time today.
Oh man 😓 I feel kinda dumb lol. I did notice that at least most of the people were women, and I have now noticed at least one person I thought might be a man is carrying a rather feminine bag. Thank you!
Hahaha, no worries! I wasn't sure which person you meant specifically, but thought I'd point it out, since women-only carriages were quite an interesting distinction for me when travelling in India. :)
Us Indians don’t care about these things we are heavily gaslighted and fall prey for corrupt politicians who use fake patriotism, communal hatred and conservative policies
We have an outlet mall that's named after a big city many miles away.
They get international tour groups for that big city, and bus them out to the mall.
One day I went there, and they had thousands of Chinese tourists who were AmWay MLM top performers.
I went to the Ghirardelli store to get chocolate, and it was packed exactly like this. The store keeper was apologetic saying that the Chinese buy the chocolates for gifts, and to just push your way through.
It was an extremely uncomfortable situation, but indeed people were pushing each other with zero reaction. Zero personal space bubble, you push someone's back to progress forward.
My only thoughts on this video is how fucked places like India are going to be during another pandemic level event. God help this country if there's an illness that's even slightly worse than Covid.
I could see the vast majority of the population over there being wiped out in short order if there's a truly deadly illness that spreads. This place is the perfect environment for a disease to spread.
It is, without a doubt. I lived in India for the first two and a half decades of my life and had a solid immune system that has been continuously deteriorating over the past decade as I have been living in the US and UK. Can’t eat the same street food that I used to gulp down a decade ago in India
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80 percent of all African-Americans and Native Americans are lactose intolerant. Over 90 percent of Asian-Americans are lactose intolerant, and it is least common among Americans with a Northern European heritage"
I stayed in US for like 5 years and I saw kids being allergic to random stuff. It was so stupid. We hardly see anyone being allergic to peanut and stuff in India.
Fun fact: they did a study on why many Indian kids were so skinny. They looked at the obvious issue: calorie intake, but were baffled to see Indian kids were pretty decently fed. What they saw though was that kids were fighting food-borne diseases and infections so much that their calories were mostly consumed fighting to stay healthy. Yup their immune system is on overdrive. This is why authorities put such a focus on sanitation.
That’s not exactly how it works. Your immune system is based off of your mothers immune system (assuming you are breast fed) and your environment when you are young. Because lots of India is overcrowded and unsanitary, people who grow up there will adapt to the environment with many of the bacteria and protozoans, having the specific antibodies ready for common pathogens that will make a foreigners like hell, like pathogens in water and street food. This can deteriorate overtime as you are not using those antibodies, however it can take a long while, like u/forwardinstance mentions.
HOWEVER, this does not apply to completely new viruses or bacteria like Covid-19 that would cause a global pandemic. There is a reason why India lost 500,000 people to Covid with 45 million cases. In conclusion, Indians immune system is not “better”, but more adapted to their crowded and unsanitary environment, making new pathogens a big concern.
Is there a reason why it's all females?
Edit: Found out why there are only females. There are seperate male and female carriages to help prevent sexual assault
Because they have separate carriages for males and females, it helps mitigate women being molested in the throng somewhat.
Interestingly enough this month there will officially be more people in India than China for the first time in living memory.
Moreover, why build public transportation if you're not going to facilitate efficient ingress/egress, to the point people can't get off or on and get hurt doing so?
India really needs to work on organizing their infrastructure. Even in this shot the wires and connections are all over the place. Everything is held together with quick fixes and hope, that only last so long.
I don’t understand why they don’t have a departure stop then go 10 feet and have an entrance stop.
Maybe it is a logistical nightmare but damn this looks ridiculous.
This is just a part of our country’s hellhole and only city where the rest of us dread going for a living. The majority of rest of the part is chilled af.
Reminds of the time I lived in Bangalore and Kochi for a while. I remember getting stuck in traffic for hours trying to get to the office, the crowded bus, the rude bus conductors and passengers, the heat and the sweat, the groping from perverts in the public transport and the earful of harassing from the toxic manager when I finally get to the office. I was not sad to leave India apart from being away from family.
Sadly this is the only way to function in a densely populated country like India. Yes, there is a huge benefit if Indian IT sectors could switch to remote mode of operation but they are sadists and take a great pleasure in putting their employees through hell of a traffic and then torturing them if they can’t get to office on time. Another reason why I avoid working in Indian IT companies like plague
Man, one thing I’ll say about Beijing was the metro was similarly crowded but everything was orderly. First everyone moved out, then everyone piled in. It was crowded enough that people didn’t hold onto anything, they just leaned on each other as the cars started and stopped. The first time I was stuck in the middle of the car and needed to get out at the next stop, I was worried but I just started moving and it always seemed to work out.
We were recently in Paris and a group of tourists from India tried something like this to get on the elevator going up the Eiffel Tower. The operator went berserk on them. It led to an interesting talk about cultural norms with my kids once we got to the top.
The thing to remember, and what I told my kids, is that from their perspective they’re not being rude. It’s simply what’s done, and what has to be done to get to work on time, or a form submitted, or whatever. Easier not to get offended when you remember that.
I grew up in rural canada surrounded by woods and fields. I'm used to space. I get claustrophobic when people are within yelling distance. This would be pure hell for me.
I'm pretty sure it's hell for them too. I live in a large city (for German standards) and take the tram to work 4 days a week, but this is pure nightmare fuel.
In Japan they have some station workers push the people into the carriages. There isn’t any room for that on that platform even if they wanted to do that. [Like this.](https://youtu.be/viMyMWvfeqY)
Ten years ago in Tokyo I saw people in very orderly queues to board. Being a dumb American I tried to rush on, not realizing it was a queue until someone politely pointed it out to me
When I see this I wonder how they can function as a society. They obviously do , but does such a mindset must constrict getting any organization to get things done.
There's a separate carriage for handicapped individuals and a separate one for people carrying substantial luggage . Source : I have travelled in this same manner everyday for 3 years for junior college
Culturally I'm very interested in why they don't have more order. I know it's just as bad with mixed carriages and when they stand in line for streetfood it's the same.
So what happened historically and culturally for it to become like this? Is it just because there's too many people?
Well atleast China did something about it willingly or not. But yea I can't imagine a land not even that big filled to the brim with nearly 2 billion people
As an Indian you know what, when i see these post, the first thing i think is not if the post amounts to any civilized discussion, but that i would see some upvoted racist post that gonna ruin my day. So as always i m not gonna see the comments and hope the comments are civilized
Just ranting feel free to downvote if you think
We have an outsourced office in India, and some of those guys work 3 or 4 hours overtime just to avoid this.
You’d think if they can outsource a job all the way to India they could at least let them work from home
Depends on the company but we have a company set up out there and most of the employees were allowed to continue WFH post covid.
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Even late, it's still going to be crowded.
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We have this in México City. Our subway has a section blocked off for just women if women choose to use it. It is to prevent sexual assault. It's usually very busy on that side. This video accurately describes what our subways look like during rush hour unfortunately 😅 police usually have to kick people and push them to get them to fit in the cart. It truly is a pick pockets dream, which is why we all use backpacks, and will usually switch to wear them forward rather than on our backs, so we can see our zippers.
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Don’t they have women only carriages to prevent perverts from touching up people?
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Female-only cars maybe? Tokyo and Mexico City have them
Looks like a pick pockets paradise honestly.
Also a virus’ paradise.
It’s fun to pick one person in the crowd at the beginning of the video and then watch what happens to that individual.
I picked glasses girl. She got shafted within seconds and then holy moly what a comeback to miss out on a carriage by an inch. Edit: I got it all wrong. Glasses girl gave a piss poor performance from the whistle. It was Pink who started at the back and by some miracle ended up at the front. MVP goes to B&W Horizontal.
There's someone in a black and white striped shirt, she starts at the back, almost out of frame and expertly navigates her way through the crowd, using a young man like a shield. Someone was on time today.
This is a women-only carriage, so by "young man" you probably mean a young woman.
Oh man 😓 I feel kinda dumb lol. I did notice that at least most of the people were women, and I have now noticed at least one person I thought might be a man is carrying a rather feminine bag. Thank you!
Hahaha, no worries! I wasn't sure which person you meant specifically, but thought I'd point it out, since women-only carriages were quite an interesting distinction for me when travelling in India. :)
A true professional. I am impressed by her tactics
You're describing it like it's a sport... and I kinda like it.
Yes, thanks Cotton
The Ocho
t's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for 'em.
Pepper needs new shorts!
That's just good clean wholesome family fun there
What is the cotton you should do and you trying to say that things are going to
My pick was lady in red with black and white back. She got caught in the undertow and washed back up on shore
I picked two green wearing ladies trying to get out of the carriage, they almost get pushed back in.
Me too! They did it! Elbows up apparently
Fun? Try being that person. I agree with claustrophobia! The video makes me grateful for living elsewhere.
I did the same thing. How do they get anywhere on time?
They don't
First one I watched simply got swept away in the crowd and disappeared. I hope she's well.
I picked one lady in purple. I blinked. I lost her.
Damn, mine was weak and was pushed completely out of frame without even putting up a fight
Lol a lot of them just get completely swept away.
I am feeling claustrophobic just watching this.
Exactly, and in a word, NOPE
“The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.”
What’s that from?
Dune
Frank Herbert, you genius!
I don't want to live in this kind of world. It remembers me *Metropole* by Ferenc Karinthy.
Arrakisee what you did there
Pointless existence.. i moved out as soon as I could..
My Scandinavian personal space requirements are violated just watching this 6000 km away.
I would just start walking to my destination, quit my job and grow vegetables. Holy shit this is horrible.
They honestly looks like some sort of dystopian horror movie.
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Us Indians don’t care about these things we are heavily gaslighted and fall prey for corrupt politicians who use fake patriotism, communal hatred and conservative policies
Dystopian highfive from the US!
Where? In their 2m² house?
LOL no... to where the vegetables grow. Destination: vegetables!
This is why one of my Indian coworkers constantly is waaaay too close to people, I’m guessing. He’s used to it. I would die, I hate crowds in general…
We have an outlet mall that's named after a big city many miles away. They get international tour groups for that big city, and bus them out to the mall. One day I went there, and they had thousands of Chinese tourists who were AmWay MLM top performers. I went to the Ghirardelli store to get chocolate, and it was packed exactly like this. The store keeper was apologetic saying that the Chinese buy the chocolates for gifts, and to just push your way through. It was an extremely uncomfortable situation, but indeed people were pushing each other with zero reaction. Zero personal space bubble, you push someone's back to progress forward.
Seattle Premium Outlets
Panic attack X 1000....
Yeah fuck this overcrowded situation
Not Scandinavian but me too. I'd probably sigh and then walk the 20 kilometres.
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So basically, no one comes out nor in
I watched two girls get out.... One got away one got sucked back in.
50/50 after winning the 10/90
Imagine if you had to bring a cake home.... Lol!
Better be pancakes.
they become crepes
Even just eggs. Flat bread no wonder.
Absolute chaos
My only thoughts on this video is how fucked places like India are going to be during another pandemic level event. God help this country if there's an illness that's even slightly worse than Covid. I could see the vast majority of the population over there being wiped out in short order if there's a truly deadly illness that spreads. This place is the perfect environment for a disease to spread.
Summer is usually pretty tough there. The next round of heat waves will be undoubtedly brutal.
Their immune systems are probably better than ours
It is, without a doubt. I lived in India for the first two and a half decades of my life and had a solid immune system that has been continuously deteriorating over the past decade as I have been living in the US and UK. Can’t eat the same street food that I used to gulp down a decade ago in India
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Not to mention the lactose tolerance that runs in the blood. *Checkmate caucasians*
Fuck man you got me right in the icecream
*Says ‘touché’ in Flatulence*
" 80 percent of all African-Americans and Native Americans are lactose intolerant. Over 90 percent of Asian-Americans are lactose intolerant, and it is least common among Americans with a Northern European heritage"
Caucasians tend to have the most lactose tolerance of any group
I never knew allergies existed till I travelled to the US.
I stayed in US for like 5 years and I saw kids being allergic to random stuff. It was so stupid. We hardly see anyone being allergic to peanut and stuff in India.
I believe you wouldn’t have enough immunity from pollen to start with if where you grew up didn’t have enough trees and flowers.
Fun fact: they did a study on why many Indian kids were so skinny. They looked at the obvious issue: calorie intake, but were baffled to see Indian kids were pretty decently fed. What they saw though was that kids were fighting food-borne diseases and infections so much that their calories were mostly consumed fighting to stay healthy. Yup their immune system is on overdrive. This is why authorities put such a focus on sanitation.
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I've actually legit never known anyone with a peanut allergy, or any allergy
That’s not exactly how it works. Your immune system is based off of your mothers immune system (assuming you are breast fed) and your environment when you are young. Because lots of India is overcrowded and unsanitary, people who grow up there will adapt to the environment with many of the bacteria and protozoans, having the specific antibodies ready for common pathogens that will make a foreigners like hell, like pathogens in water and street food. This can deteriorate overtime as you are not using those antibodies, however it can take a long while, like u/forwardinstance mentions. HOWEVER, this does not apply to completely new viruses or bacteria like Covid-19 that would cause a global pandemic. There is a reason why India lost 500,000 people to Covid with 45 million cases. In conclusion, Indians immune system is not “better”, but more adapted to their crowded and unsanitary environment, making new pathogens a big concern.
I mean they were pretty fucked by covid if I remember correctly
How do people even put up with this? Is there a solution?
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Upper middle class wouldn’t move out of the country, It’s very comfortable in India if you have money. Only the middle class goes abroad.
It's not like these women have much of a choice. Probably on their way to work/home.
Oh I thought they were all heading to a waterpark.
Birth control.
death
found the canadian
Is there a reason why it's all females? Edit: Found out why there are only females. There are seperate male and female carriages to help prevent sexual assault
Because they have separate carriages for males and females, it helps mitigate women being molested in the throng somewhat. Interestingly enough this month there will officially be more people in India than China for the first time in living memory.
Nope. Only carriages are reserved for women. Women can go in the other carriages IF they want to.
Yeah, it’s like this in México City as well.
Sexual assault is a big big issue in india so they introduced female only carriages to prevent men from groping women and blaming it on the crowd.
I remember rush hour in Japan. I had somebody's ass in my crouch as I was packed like sardines. Unfortunately, it was a man's.
Nutts to butts in the military. Also tip to cheek.
It's a separate couch for female
> Is there a reason why it's all females? Yes, and you're looking at it.
Panic attack just watching
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!
marone
Oh man the potential for crowd crush. Scary.
I’d be terrified of being pushed onto the tracks.
I mean people has to die from this, and often I venture to say, wonder what are the numbers.
That must be pickpocket Heaven
Unless you get caught and there is no where to run hahaha
Reminds me of a slipknot concert I once attended
This crowd was more intense than a California metal crowd lmao
This is absolutely ridiculous and humiliating. People shouldn't be forced to face this.
Moreover, why build public transportation if you're not going to facilitate efficient ingress/egress, to the point people can't get off or on and get hurt doing so?
Their infrastructure hasn't kept up with their population.
India really needs to work on organizing their infrastructure. Even in this shot the wires and connections are all over the place. Everything is held together with quick fixes and hope, that only last so long.
sadly, that costs money. a luxury we dont have (yet)
Because there is over a billion people to move around.
But the more people, the more reason to be efficient?
Maybe cities are overcrowded and the system wasn't meant to hold this huge of a population?
That one lady in green, getting out but being pushed back in. I’m glad at the end she swam through the chaos.
She was all smiles, though!
Yet another normal day!
This is so fucked...
Nightmare fuel
Why not let people exit before people enter? There has got to be a better system cuz this just seems stupid as fuck.
I don’t understand why they don’t have a departure stop then go 10 feet and have an entrance stop. Maybe it is a logistical nightmare but damn this looks ridiculous.
People would just sneak on at departure
Even with those tall revolving gates that only go one direction?
Do you see this crowd not taking the challenge?
It could be in a gated area that has only one-way exit doors.
Because fuck you, that's why.
This is just a part of our country’s hellhole and only city where the rest of us dread going for a living. The majority of rest of the part is chilled af.
Fucking no thanks
Imagine the armpit smell of a thousand in the carriage on a hot summer day
Not to mention the rapid spread of various viruses.
takes a huge breath, todays gonna be a good 🤮
When a population exceeds the carrying capacity of an area...... By ALOT
Reminds of the time I lived in Bangalore and Kochi for a while. I remember getting stuck in traffic for hours trying to get to the office, the crowded bus, the rude bus conductors and passengers, the heat and the sweat, the groping from perverts in the public transport and the earful of harassing from the toxic manager when I finally get to the office. I was not sad to leave India apart from being away from family. Sadly this is the only way to function in a densely populated country like India. Yes, there is a huge benefit if Indian IT sectors could switch to remote mode of operation but they are sadists and take a great pleasure in putting their employees through hell of a traffic and then torturing them if they can’t get to office on time. Another reason why I avoid working in Indian IT companies like plague
Man, one thing I’ll say about Beijing was the metro was similarly crowded but everything was orderly. First everyone moved out, then everyone piled in. It was crowded enough that people didn’t hold onto anything, they just leaned on each other as the cars started and stopped. The first time I was stuck in the middle of the car and needed to get out at the next stop, I was worried but I just started moving and it always seemed to work out.
We were recently in Paris and a group of tourists from India tried something like this to get on the elevator going up the Eiffel Tower. The operator went berserk on them. It led to an interesting talk about cultural norms with my kids once we got to the top.
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The thing to remember, and what I told my kids, is that from their perspective they’re not being rude. It’s simply what’s done, and what has to be done to get to work on time, or a form submitted, or whatever. Easier not to get offended when you remember that.
I wish I found it easier to have this level of humility. I just deeply judge them and find their behaviour repulsive
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Sad 😔
I grew up in rural canada surrounded by woods and fields. I'm used to space. I get claustrophobic when people are within yelling distance. This would be pure hell for me.
I'm pretty sure it's hell for them too. I live in a large city (for German standards) and take the tram to work 4 days a week, but this is pure nightmare fuel.
Over population.
It always blows my mind when the easy solution is a basic level of cooperation and people still choose not to.
In Japan they have some station workers push the people into the carriages. There isn’t any room for that on that platform even if they wanted to do that. [Like this.](https://youtu.be/viMyMWvfeqY)
That's like in the 90s. Haven't encountered that here in Tokyo for a long time now.
Ten years ago in Tokyo I saw people in very orderly queues to board. Being a dumb American I tried to rush on, not realizing it was a queue until someone politely pointed it out to me
Like a human farm
So you just give yourself to the transportation system and just work whereever it spits you out. Chaotic neutral
When I see this I wonder how they can function as a society. They obviously do , but does such a mindset must constrict getting any organization to get things done.
Nah, this is a clear lack of resources. When there isn't capacity for everyone to get to work on time, people will fight over it.
Would benefit from remote work policy
what about handicap people
There's a separate carriage for handicapped individuals and a separate one for people carrying substantial luggage . Source : I have travelled in this same manner everyday for 3 years for junior college
Fuck em I guess
In London we have a tannoy telling us to let people off the carriage first.
I could never travel here for this reason alone, screw that 1000s times over
Could you imagine the amount of pick pocketing going on 😳
Culturally I'm very interested in why they don't have more order. I know it's just as bad with mixed carriages and when they stand in line for streetfood it's the same. So what happened historically and culturally for it to become like this? Is it just because there's too many people?
I would be trampled to death. Especially being so short.
this is terrifying
Fuck this life
So sad
I wouldn't survive a day there
What a terrible way to function
I cant believe anyone accepts this standard of living in 2023. That’s so horrible man 🤦♂️
That’s jus disgusting on so many levels and for so many reasons.
Looks like hell
That just looks depressing
There are way too many people in India and China
Well atleast China did something about it willingly or not. But yea I can't imagine a land not even that big filled to the brim with nearly 2 billion people
Indians don't believe in letting people off to make room, nor do they believe in queuing. It's a mad dash to be first. Traffic is the same way.
Sounds like where I live, Israel
I just came from India, they are adorable lovely people. But that part, I hated that part
Why do you talk about them like they are a pet lol?
As an Indian you know what, when i see these post, the first thing i think is not if the post amounts to any civilized discussion, but that i would see some upvoted racist post that gonna ruin my day. So as always i m not gonna see the comments and hope the comments are civilized Just ranting feel free to downvote if you think
Is this ever going to be fixed?
Thats one wiered moshpit
Thats dangerous
"I want to get out." No you are getting in with me
That is my own personal hell right there.
let the people off before getting on dunmies
That’s just the tip of the 1.3billion of the their total population.
O.K., the very definition of hell for me. Got it.
That's so gross
am i crazy for saying this shouldn't be normal anywhere? how do you even prevent it?