r/interestingasfuck • u/Abracadabra579 • 13h ago
Indian way of solving any problem is traumatising the individual for lifetime towards the problem.
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u/CaptainDFW 13h ago
For those of us who aren't from India, what exactly is going on here? They're tricking these children into believing they have parasites...for fun? What's the goal?
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u/Abracadabra579 13h ago
So that they stop eating junk food
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u/RandomCandor 13h ago
Ok, well that's an extremely shitty reason then
I was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt that maybe they were spreading awareness about infectious parasites and the importance of washing your hands or something. That may have justified something like this.
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u/MaxTwang 9h ago
Indian junk food is way worse than junk food in developed countries. India faces a major health crisis as cardiovascular disease has become the leading cause of death, striking the population a decade earlier than global averages.
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u/analyzingnothing 7h ago
Yes, but as we've seen from the US drug crisis, lying to kids about the health effects of X thing tends to result in increased usage as adults because they figure out that they were lied to and develop a distrust of medical authorities. As a result, they ignore the actual medical advice for why you shouldn't do this kind of thing and proceed to do it copiously.
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u/DeLowl 5h ago
Even if that's true, if the kid is young enough to believe this demonstration, they're definitely at an age where they aren't just finding this junk themselves. The parents are giving it to them. Traumatise the parents instead. And then talk to the kids when they're old enough to have their own money, and buy their own snacks.
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u/ThirdEarl 7h ago
People from South Asia are generally more prone to diabetes.
There is some research to suggest that this is partly due to the numerous famines that have taken place on the subcontinent.
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u/Fluffy_Fondant1975 3h ago
Isn't also the vegetarian diet that is high is carbohydrates?
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u/ThirdEarl 2h ago
Not sure about that. Some Indians I know say that you'd only traditionally have a small bowl of rice in your plate next to your veggies and maybe some eggs or fish.
Maybe it's more western food, changing habits or some of the very sweet desserts you get in India.
Also it's such a massive place in terms of population and culture and I only know a few people from one region so take this with a massive pinch of salt.
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u/IHateCedarFever 2h ago
East Asians living in Western countries also have extremely high instances of diabetes and cardiovascular disease despite being low weight in the same way. It’s postulated that diets in the home country have lots of veggies, fish, preserved/pickled items, and little meat, fats, and sugar. Modern “convenient” Western style fast food and snacks are terrible for the body and it seems like all Asians are very sensitive.
Asians who maintain diet from their home countries appear to be much healthier than those who adopt Western style diet.
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u/Ok_Fill1157 7h ago
Indian junk food is mostly from street vendors - and is highly unhygienic. That's a well known fact and hence, preventing eating of that food, prevents a host of parasites. Hence the link. It's not heart etc (that helps...) but at this age it is parasites from those foods made dreadfully
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u/The_Rogue_Coder 4h ago
Would kids that young have money to spend on that food without their parents around?
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u/SortovaGoldfish 8h ago
I've seen another one using this tactic but it was all the kids in a classroom and a "strange man"(teacher wearing some kind of face obscuring mask) comes in offering candy. Kid takes it, immediately gets whisked away and the kids' teacher "panics" and "screams for help", which does not come. Later either the same teacher or another one using the same disguise comes in offering more candy. The kids, similar to hear, emphatically deny taking the candy. Even saw one where one kid who just seemed checked out was reaching for the second offering and the kid next to him pulled his hand down, pulled him close, and denied it for him.
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u/sweetteanoice 7h ago
Have to wonder if that would translate at all to a real world situation. I doubt it would
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u/SortovaGoldfish 7h ago
Wouldn't stop a motivated kidnapper certainly. Might stop like a poisoning or something.
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u/AdmiralCoconut69 12h ago
Feels like a missed opportunity to encourage better hygiene practices especially since that seems be something they’ve garnered a fair bit of notoriety for in recent years
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u/breeekk 12h ago
Imo, most indian households have a better hygiene protocol than anywhere else. many people wash their hands feet every time they come back from outside. we wash clothes and dry them everyday, we sweep and mop floors everyday.. covid was comparatively tolerable because we didn’t need 2 minutes happy birthday song hand washing ritual. we had been doing that all along. the bad hygiene you see is the outside world. We are very bad at keeping outdoors clean, but insides are immaculate most of the time.
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u/Extension_Plant7262 8h ago
Yeah, it comes down to the fact that India has shit infrastructure more than anything else. Or you'd constantly be hearing about disease outbreaks
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u/BarryAllen1212 11h ago
Also not to forget the habit of opening shoes outside of the house, washing hands thoroughly before each meal and in humid places bathing more than twice.
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u/silverbulletsam 10h ago
Absolutely. I think a lot of Indians who move to western countries are shocked at the lazy hygiene practises some of us have.
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u/roshatron 9h ago
Indians have to do it because of the lack of good public infrastructure, there are potholes, dust and dirt everywhere. People sweat a lot due to the heat and humidity. This is not the case in most developed countries.
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u/CaptainDFW 13h ago
Ah, got it.
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u/Working-Mountain6680 12h ago
It's an insta parents trend that this school decided to take up a notch and mass-traumatize the kids.
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u/SirkutBored 12h ago
That's at least better than what I thought, that they were giving them actual parasites and then showing it to them. It's still completely messed up.
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u/Top-Permission5466 11h ago
Parasites don't work in that way and are not giant as in the faked videos.
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u/jusmesurfin 9h ago
They are saying that eating junk food like candy and soda will make them have bugs in their bellies. It's messed up.
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u/Kiubek-PL 4h ago
Meanwhile actual junk food:
"PepsiCo retained an expert in veterinary pathology, who stated that if a mouse had indeed been inside a sealed can of Mountain Dew for the 74-day period between production and consumption, the body of the mouse would have been transformed into a "jelly-like" substance. The expert further explained that the soft tissues would have disintegrated, and the structure of the mouse would no longer be recognizable."
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u/-duckduckduckduck- 2h ago
That’s crazy. What happens if the mouse just drinks a small amount of the Mountain Dew as intended since it’s a beverage and not a swimming medium?
You shouldn’t even swim in WATER for 74 days.
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u/Brilliant-Plan-7428 4h ago
This is true but don't you think it's a bit misleading to post this? Afterall it would happen because pepsi is mostly water and water dissolves corpses.
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u/Coacoanut 2h ago
They gave some kids soda and candy then pretended to ultrasound their belly while displaying a (very fake) video of worms squirming around inside of them.
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u/WolframBravo 10h ago
Have you watched clips of Indian street food? Most influencers highlight its lack of hygiene, yet the cost of preparation limits even basic standards. Still, Indian street food is quite flavorful, and many children desire it. Teachers attempt to frighten students by suggesting that eating such unhygienic dishes will lead to worms and parasites in the stomach.
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u/tofzilla86 13h ago
I'm kinda shocked at how many people are ok with this. Sure, maybe the kids are terrified of junk food for a few years of their lives, but what happens when they realize that this is all bullshit? This is a good way to build distrust with medical authorities.
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u/Dahkeus3 12h ago
I mean…not much different from the D.A.R.E. program where I was taught that puffing on a joint would cause permanent brain damage.
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u/Raichu7 8h ago
You mean the program that is widely held responsible for causing hundreds of thousands of people to try drugs that they likely wouldn't have if they hadn't been so badly misinformed by the program?
Once people learn that weed won't do the things dare told them it would, well what's the harm in trying coke or heroin or fent? All those horror stories are just lies like the lie about weed and brain damage right?
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u/Careful_Honeydew_549 9h ago
You from the south? Dare never did that to us. Cop would come and talk about addiction and consequences, but that was it. A lot of shoutint and chanting, but that was about it.
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u/Terrible_Donkey_8290 5h ago
I mean I'm from new England and they definitely made weed sound just as bad as far worse drugs
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u/bad_squishy_ 4h ago
Yea and they would tell us specifically how and why people would die doing drugs. For example people who take ecstasy at raves would overheat from dancing too much and not drinking enough water. So he told us don’t take it, but if you do, drink plenty of water. I read somewhere that although dare didn’t prevent drug use, it did help prevent overdoses! So that’s something.
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u/Sad-Ad4378 3h ago
I’d need to see the source for that note on overdose prevention. DARE as standardly taught was famously NOT a harm reduction program, it was abstinence only. Along with what others have said about lying and creating mistrust, it also created curiosity. In my class, police officers brought in the drugs so we could see them and know what they looked like, which definitely increased interest for some.
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u/WeirdGoat9022 2h ago
You and I attended very different DARE programs. Ours was (supposedly) an undercover cop who tried to scare us straight with stories about cocaine rotting your nose off.
I don’t remember much talk about weed, but maybe I just wasn’t paying attention.
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u/Amazing_Theory622 12h ago
That's exactly what happens in our country people are kept in darkness for sometime and then when they realise the truth, everything is looked upon with distrust
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u/MrK521 11h ago
Yea we do that with Santa, the Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny…
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u/Stats_n_PoliSci 8h ago
Santa is not supposed to terrify you. That makes it very different.
“Honey, I lied about who gave you wonderful gifts” vs “Honey, I lied about getting a terrifying worm from junk food.”
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u/MrK521 1h ago
Santa’s whole purpose is for telling kids to be good or they won’t get things. And that some creepy guy is watching you all day and night, and when you sleep, and will know if you’re bad. Lol.
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u/EaterOfFood 2h ago
“He sees you when you’re sleeping” isn’t supposed to terrify you?
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u/Rickshmitt 11h ago
Now weve got elf on a shelf we gotta move every night and also presents in shoes from some jaggoff saint
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u/Cephell 10h ago
I don't want to make a judgement, because I don't know about the subject, but weren't fairy tales about witches in the woods that eat you exactly this? Scare children with something exaggerated because the real danger (wolves and wild animals) is too abstract for a young mind? Folklore is full of stuff like this.
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u/Stats_n_PoliSci 8h ago
Yes, but there are two important caveats.
- We don’t tell those stories that way anymore, probably because we have better tools than a lie.
- The dangers were usually less abstract than junk food.
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u/giraloco 7h ago
Thanks. Why did I have to scroll down so much to find this comment. They are building a shitty culture if education is based on terrifying children.
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u/Dotster69 8h ago
Yes, this is pretty bad in the long run. Idk why people think it's okay to lie to kids, guess it's easier. It's like people telling kids "weed/vape will kill you/make you stupid", reminds me of that south park episode.
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u/WingedSalim 8h ago
Do you completely loose trust in your parents once you know Santa isn't real?
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u/somethingnewest 6h ago
My husband claims he did. He was defending the existence of Santa to a peer when he was 11 years old. He went home and told his parents about it and they confirmed Santa is not real. He was embarrassed and terribly upset they lied to him. We now have a child and we told her Santa wasn’t real from the beginning and we soon realized she really wanted to believe in Santa so after a few attempts to tell her the truth we then supported her and her desire to believe he (and the elf on the shelf) are real. She loves believing in these things, but one day when she understands these things aren’t real we’ll be able to tell her “we told you the truth first and it didn’t stick.” She’s currently 8 years old
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u/InfernalShogunn 5h ago
Yep. I sure the fuck did. Because I also found out that Jesus isn't real around the same time even though I was forced to attend Christian School 1st-8th grade. When your parents lie about almost everything and then guilt trip you over not paying attention and memorizing them....it's quite the shock when you meet a kid outside of the church for the first time and you get to see how a normal kid and their family operate. I lost all hope and trust in my parents, and for good reason. 20 years later and they still can't do anything but lie about every little thing.
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u/somethingnewest 3h ago
Same with my husband he went to a private catholic school k-6. One day he was distressed and told his grandmother (a Buddhist) that he kept praying to god, asking that he speak to him and for god to guide him. He said he never speaks to me- I don’t understand what I’m doing wrong. His grandmother looked at him and said god isn’t real. He’s now agnostic. This isn’t a comment meant to ridicule any religion or anyone’s religious beliefs or to even say his grandmother handled it the best way. It’s more a comment about how distraught my husband was as a child and how confusing it can be for children to understand complex belief systems and the effects some may feel. I was brought up in a Christian church (now labeled as a cult) and attended a private Christian college. Throughout my years I studied many religions trying to make sense of it all- why are there so many similarities? How do you know which one is the true one? How can you fervently trust anything written by people (who are inherently flawed) and say this right here is the truth? I’m now agnostic as well. I will work with my daughter and allow her to explore religions. I’ll even go to church with her and have respectful conversations about religious beliefs and I’ll do so whenever she is ready. That’s just my little story. Thanks for reading:)
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u/Hatefulvesper 12h ago
By that time maybe they'll have learned that sugar is poison.
But maybe not, cause I know this and still consume it 🤷
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u/UnderstandingDull274 13h ago
Was that a computer mouse?
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u/LogensTenthFinger 4h ago
Sure, as shit isn't an actual ultrasound probe.
This is the most ridiculous AI ass cartoon crap I've ever seen. Like watching someone try to pass off a Bugs Bunny cartoon as a nature documentary.
-actual ultrasound tech
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u/CleanWean 12h ago
This would be so funny if it wasn’t so sad!
But humble request again to avoid titles like “In India”- this is not a widespread practice. This is no different from some random guy asking a few random US/ British people some Questions and claiming that the entire country is dumb
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u/Dahkeus3 11h ago
Especially considering how large and diverse India is. I mean, it’s about 13 times as large as the U.K. with 22 official languages spoken there.
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u/Arktikos02 6h ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzA6ELRc-s8
Oh no I think I've seen people in Western countries do this too, just individually in their houses instead Rather than in schools. It's not that hard, you just get one of these videos on YouTube and then make them believe that they are doing an ultrasound. It's apparently to scare them out of junk food. I'd like to think it gets them into an eating disorder.
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u/Abracadabra579 12h ago
Agreed. My bad.
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u/CleanWean 12h ago edited 12h ago
My intention wasn’t to shame you or put you in a spot. Just an attempt to change the way we interact.
My apologies if it was hurtful.
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u/Beneficial_Record_60 7h ago
So basically, we traumatize kids to keep them from eating junk food, make sure they never learn to regulate their emotions, and then act surprised when they develop other addictions later in life. Brilliant.
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u/Gentlemanvaultboy 12h ago
Priming these kids to mistrust medical information for life.
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u/mxforest 10h ago
By the time they grow up to realize the video was fake, they will be smart enough to only trust the Doctor. Indians take whatever Doctor says as Gospel. Had very little resistance with Covid vaccine.
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u/TheRealChirakkal 9h ago
We already have an entire ministry dedicated to this. The AYUSH ministry literally takes taxpayer money to fund Pseudoscience.
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u/mike194827 10h ago
Catholic high school in the US decided to try this tactic with smoking and pictures of black lungs, missing jaws and teeth, etc. We were also given a slideshow of what drinking apparently always leads to by having pictures of deceased ceash victims, including one with the vehicle wrapped around an electrical pole. The scare tactics didn't work though lol
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u/TheShapeshifter01 9h ago
As fucked up as that is, it is admittedly more accurate than "junk food gives you massive parasites that eat their way out of you".
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u/Better-Culture-7770 7h ago
I went to a hell house where the real car from a drunk driver at the end was my Aunt's, she died that previous summer after drinking a pint of whiskey and purposely driving her car into the side of an overpass. It was extremely traumatic and I still hate those fucks from the church that ran it.
They kept saying "oh honey this wasn't your Aunt's car" and then I repeated the license plate number that they left on the vehicle that I knew because I was weird like that. Everyone suddenly realized that maybe using some kid's dead aunt to scare them towards Christianity, while saying the driver was in hell (who was definitely a Christian anyway and not from the type of Christianity that views suicide as automatic hell) was poorly planned.
Fucking asshole megachurch psychos.
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u/GrowlingAtTheWorld 9h ago
5th grade they had a doctor bring in a notebook full of sliced laminated lungs to flip thru to talk about the dangers of smoking. Yep I was traumatized, never have smoked.
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u/MatthewQ999 2h ago
I thought this was about hygiene and the associated risks of getting parasites, which would at least make some sense. But apparently it’s about junk food? Just makes people distrustful when they get older.
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u/mindscapepix 13h ago
The teachers in the back smiling… goddamn, that’s some cold shit.
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u/sac_boy 12h ago edited 11h ago
They did something similar to us [in Northern Ireland] with stranger danger videos as kids in the 80s. I think I was in an experimental cohort: it was a stranger danger video I'd seen elsewhere ("...hey little girl come to my house and I'll show you my puppy...it's not a puppy...it's a tiger cub!" "oh alright then"), but now it was cut with imagery of demons, graveyards, bleak night landscapes. I remember noticing that the aspect ratio on the flashes of flying demons was wrong. I also remember looking around at my schoolfriends, who were transfixed on the big screen.
We would perhaps have been 7-8 years old.
When we were 10, the school took what I believe to be the same cohort of kids out of class to spend time with a meditation teacher (pretty certain he was a hypnotherapist of some kind). The 'meditations' were all focused on forgetting. "You're in your eyes now...sweeping those bad images right out of your eyes..."
I was quite a high-awareness child and so I had an inkling of what was going on. This was some kind of backtracking/repair so that somebody out there didn't get sued.
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u/FunkalicouseMach1 11h ago
This sounds like there may have been something deeper than a lesson about strangers.
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u/Salty_Squidd 13h ago
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u/TyrKiyote 13h ago
scaring the shit out of children is a normalized thing in other places. This is something horrible, i think worse than the chinese children being taught to fear strangers. I think they call them abduction drills.
Consider the Brother's Grimm, and many fables used to be pretty violent lessons. Scary stories.
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u/Castor_PolluxA 12h ago
Nothing wrong here, look from child standpoint. They didn't feel guilt or fear. This is a very practical and important lesson for teaching. They didn't think that they have a worm inside their stomach and wanted to get out of that.
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u/togocann49 13h ago
This is old world methods. I mean I befriended a bull calf on my uncles farm one summer, then next summer, they didn’t let me visit him until I had dinner. Then I was told only one bull on the farm, and they already had a proven bull, also no one in area was looking for new bull. So they had me eat him, talk about sick lessons for life.
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u/HyperionsDad 12h ago
Well that likely happened in Indiana, not India
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u/togocann49 12h ago
Neither actually. It was Canada in the 70’s. My point is this kind of “life lesson” was widespread at one time
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u/Hungry-ThoughtsCurry 8h ago
India, where extreme drama gives you life long trauma.
Source: First hand experience on the receiving end
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u/HeadFit2660 13h ago
Maybe they should scare the shit out of them about leaving garbage on the ground
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u/andrew_calcs 12h ago
Scaring children is how you teach them lifelong lessons about dangerous things without ever having them have to experience it themselves. Literally every culture on this planet does it. The Three Little Pigs is about not trusting strangers and being prepared, or they might kill and eat you. Hansel and Gretel is about cannibalism, abandonment, and death. My mom showed me shriveled black smoker’s lungs from an autopsy to make sure I never smoked, etc.
Children being scared by abstract stories with (often exaggerated) consequences teaches them how to process fear through low risk exposure in a controlled environment, and is part of healthy emotional development and resilience.
And now, if you’re still reading, this is the part where I say the video is still BULLSHIT. This wasn’t abstract fear exposure with a cautionary tale. This is straight up lying to kids and telling them they’ve already got worms growing inside them that will try eating their way out. The layer of abstraction that makes the earlier examples a healthy part of childhood development is completely absent. This is just lying to traumatize kids.
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u/Ntroepy 11h ago
The headline caught my eye after seeing the great Bollywood zombie movie Go Goa Gone in an Indian theater (in America).
They had horrible video clips of people dying of lung cancer from smoking with pictures of diseased lungs. It was far more graphic than any anti-smoking campaigns I’ve seen in the US before.
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u/Fantastic-Grade8686 12h ago
They will grow up realizing that their adults was just a bunch of liars and doing it for fun..
..and the sinister cycle repeats itself lol
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u/Tatamashii 8h ago
Ive been seeing a lot of videos lately (relatively) about adults "showing" kids worms and stuff in their bodies. Call me a snowflake idc, but I really think thats disgusting and could go wrong pretty fast. Why are so many adults so keen to traumatize children instead of letting them be kids and educating them?
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u/EinTheDataDoge 2h ago
Remember those anti weed ads that heavily exaggerated the effects of weed. Remember how that turned out. Pepperidge Farms members.
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u/BigBrainsLol 3h ago
They should do this with throwing trash cuz they have way bigger problem with that then with eating fast food
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u/EmployerWide1123 11h ago
usa education system does the same thing with a certain topic from 80 years ago..
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u/Pale-Phrase-417 10h ago
It’s mostly hurried parenting and lack of patience. It’s easier for the parent to breed fear in the child than to liberate it with truth.
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u/UnfazedReality463 9h ago
“Look! There are giant worms in your little body! They’re eating you alive! Aaahhh!”
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u/Careful_Honeydew_549 9h ago
I abhor people who lie to children. The truth is all to need to scare kids
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u/Upper-Refrigerator54 7h ago
Fear mongering is always favoured in India over evidence-based reasoning and rationality. Reason - the teachers, guides, elders and parents were brought up the same way and know no other way! They just pass on and project trauma
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u/TrueAd5640 7h ago
Hey that's what the US does for sex ed. Just show kids birthing videos. No it doesn't work, why do you ask?
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u/Direct-Quiet-5817 6h ago
And that's how they are turned into adults who don't question any mythical mumbo jumbo. The end result is not alone important, but how you get there is important too. Fake information is wrong, no matter what.
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u/BlackForestMountain 2h ago
Are you suggesting scared straight wasn’t a popular television show on the US where they tried to scare children? Every culture does this and every culture is toxic.
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u/mrsambavam 10h ago
Every content added "India" gets attention. A teacher in "India" would've made more sense and get the same attention. What's with this "Indian" way? So you really think this is an established practise in India? Now when you catch a pedo who is American will you put the title as "American" way of treating children? Common!!
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u/shisui1729 10h ago
Yeah Indian way ? Dude you have 100s of Insta reels from American, Asian, African countries pulling the same kind of shit to children
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u/Castor_PolluxA 12h ago
Is this right way to teach by making them guilt and fear? I am finding a word to describe this level of stupidity. We should educate our childrens to ask the right questions. Not a hard lesson like this.
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u/Vast_Humor_3683 12h ago
I really dislike their society because they still follow the cast system
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u/No-Coffee2200 5h ago
Y'all literally ban abortion by law I wouldn't be the one throwing shade in a video not even related to caste system (banned by law in India btw)
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u/BlessKurunai 3h ago
Not saying the caste system doesn't exist here. It's disgustingly alive and very well, but why can't the same be said about racism all around the world? Even the so called progressive countries like Germany, France, Sweden or Spain treat POC as shit. Just because it's a different flavor of discrimination doesn't make it any less bad.
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u/lazemax768 10h ago
Guys these are not lifelong traumas..quit being so sensitive. Most kids(not all) dont respond to logic, they'll keep doing something even if you tell them not to. Try it if you want.
Most of us were told something like dont swallow seeds or a tree will grow out of you. This wasnt just in India, even People in other parts of the world have faced this. Its not such a big deal.
If there's something which can actually cause life long trauma then obviously it should be completely stopped. But things like the one in this video are pretty much harmless
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u/DaiDee65 13h ago
Asian parents: but does it work tho?