I was so so impressed that you love India and miss India just as much as I do having been born in India but living i USA for the last 47 years. You make facial expressions just like I would do. You brought tears in my eyes. I wish you all the best and hope to meet you somewhere!
As a FOREIGNER myself, married to an INDIAN, I have now tried to be both TOURIST and TO LIVE in INDIA. And India is lovely, but very different from EUROPE 🇩🇰🇮🇳🇮🇳 HAPPY HOLI - Greetings from COPENHAGEN 🥰🥰🎊🎊
washing clothes in the morning ____ Right reason is Clothes dried in hot sun which nesures the cloth get heat from sun & infection free U can say real cleanliness & protection to health
Even Indians can’t understand and describe India adequately, forget about any tourist understanding it enough.. positive thing is some of the tourists, like you,understand this.. giving a chance to more exploration and understanding.
I felt like I was listening to an Indian not a German, I think your have explored India more than an average Indian, Your video was nice in terms of perspective of a outsider or a foreigner of what the person thinks about India and its cultural habits 🙏🙏
Awesome and beautiful description of staying in India as a tourist or otherwise. Love the way you made us to feel your own feelings. God bless you dear. Love from America. I am from Kashmir, India now living in America for the last so many years. I miss Indian culture and also the variety of vegetarian food in America.
Sandals and shoes are not insult. Again, since early times, we have customs which helped us keep diseases at bay. By removing the sandals, you are making sure that you do not bring any diseases ( as you walk on a lot of muck on a road ), inside the home. You wash your feet, hands, to make sure that if you have touched anything which might have communicative diseases, the germs might infect others inside the home as well. These customs are not rules. These are deeply rooted in science. Temples are places where a lot of people gather. Thus, you should go to the temple bare footed, wash your feet and hands and take the "prasadam" ( to boost your immunity ), with your right hand ( guess why ).
do you know about a german lady visited india in 1973 helped a calf of cow it touched her so much that she stayed in india and still living in UP and helping abandoned caws in thousand she got padma vibhushan recently.
I love my India I'm Indian the largest country I'm proud of my country please respect to India thank you Jai Hind Jai Bharat 🇮🇳❤️🇮🇳❤️🇮🇳❤️🇮🇳❤️🇮🇳❤️🇮🇳❤️🇮🇳❤️🇮🇳❤️🇮🇳❤️🇮🇳❤️🇮🇳❤️🇮🇳❤️🇮🇳❤️🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍🌅🌅🌅
You are so sweet ❤️❤️ and you just look gorgeous in Indian dresses And now you're one of us , you're not a tourist anymore because you love this country.
We are a country with ample sunlight all through the year and drying your clothes in sunlight is the best way to disinfect your clothes and prevent them from growing fungus on them hence we wash clothes in the morning. Majority of traditions and rituals and beliefs and superstitions in our country have originated out of deeply thought well tempered Vedic culture. Good though that you are trying to decipher the rationale behind everything and not criticise everything that is Indian as trash like many other foreigners . Your sincerity for India is conspicuous.
Jennifer thanks for sharing valuable information about India. Its nice of you to share what you had experience while being a tourist or staying and travelling to various parts of India. You are beautiful and very pleasant and you being a german speak very good english. I don't mind listening to you talk all day long. Bravo
Going great 👍. More power to you girl. Guest is God, but you are no more a guest. And to add more you look amazing in that attire and that hairstyle of yours. 🙏
There is a scientific reason for everything we did like leaving shoes outside, cutting nails inside home etc..which our fore fathers followed and they were brilliant. But they knew future generations don't follow them if we put scientific reason they termed them in different way saying those are bad things. I started to realise lately why everything is followed that way and the reason behind it. They were way a head of us.
Eating Idly for breakfast is a mainly South Indian tradition. The place where I grew up in India, we mainly ate bread and butter with Chai for breakfast. Same for the state where I went to university. There, the most ate bread butter for breakfast while the non-vegetarians (as per indian definition), ate omelet and bread (of course with Chai). (This was several decades ago).
Very true same ..we Indian dont experience the culture even in the next state and dont get to do ..as we are dwelling in our life ..busy with our own dreams
have met a couple of Germans and Austrians here in Melbourne. most of them have been to India and to the places where I, being an Indian background, never been to. Kudos to ya for living there as it is not easy to settledown there
Washing clothes early morning .. The reason is you get full day free which you can spend as you want ,,, another reason is that clothes get proper sunlight that kill germs 😂
Your "Namaste Guys" is So Powerful that it Lights Up Anyone on Our Planet. Yes Indian Culture is Great because There are Some Rules to Follow and Rules mean Discipline. You can't Go to School or College in a Bikini even in Germany or America or Russia , Can You ??? Even though there are Freedom of Speech and Women's Freedom , Etc. Right ??? So Rules and Disciplines are Everywhere and India is Trying to Maintain those Rules and Disciplines. Its Great that You have Understood Our Culture and India Loves You :)
It's not always about race, sometimes it's just because people of white skin colour are almost always foreigners (except the northeast Indians) in India and many places in India don't attract international tourists. Some people get really excited when they meet a foreigner and behave inappropriately sometimes, once they get used to foreigners they stop acting strangely.
India is a continent in itself with different languages, dialects, customs, rituals, religions, different geography (desert, tropical, beaches, mountains, plains etc). As you know Indian civilization is the oldest civilization and Hinduism (Sanatana Dharma) is the oldest religion, so once you start learning/reading about Hinduism, you will be able to connect all the dots whether it is related customs, way certain things are done, ayurveda, yoga, meditation, knowledge of vedas, Gita, Puranas, or spirituality (Karma, astral travel, reincarnation, five elements, past life)
Great video Jenni! I know about the nail cutting one and it's a personal thing if you believe in something which have might have had some logical reason in the older eras but are now just turned into superstition, I and most people I know don't follow that. The 'wash your clothes only in the morning' took me by surprise because I never heard of that one before, maybe it's a regional thing or maybe it's not a popular one haha.
13:14 leather (skin of a dead animal) is also thought to be a no no, this is another reason to wash feet because feet were touching leather and without washing going inside the house is thought to be unclean, shoes are thought to be dirty (this is why we wear shoes, feet not to get dirty), if people start getting into home or temple with wearing shoes, the floor will get dirty very soon.
Hi Jenni, I'm glad you brought up the topic of crossing the road in India but I wish you had elaborated a bit. As a foreigner of Indian origin, I would be scared of crossing the roads in India. What's the etiquette there, how do you know if an oncoming car will slow down for you or not while crossing?
It is not about slowing down in the first place. The traffic is way more and way more chaotic... but the general speed of the cars is lower than in other countries (As I was used to). You don't stop the flow... you are part of the flow itself. You just go from traffic line to trafic line whenever there is the next gap... you go your way and the cars go theirs without interrupting each other. And if the traffic is so dense that there are not enough gaps, there will form a small traffic jam and you just have to go around the stopped cars. Actually it is not that big of a deal. It is just another system that works its own way...
Me and the people I know I mean north part of India we eat ☕ tea, bread, toast, or rooti with curry, popped rice, parathas, coffee ☕, biscuits etc.. like you
We give money with Right hand because it represents good sign & wishing other person to have good prosperity. You might know in India people use Left hand for their washroom things. That's the reason Why people in India use Right Hand to Eat, give money & many good things are done with Right hand. Hope this clarifies 😊
Hinduism is not to believe ,it's seeking, .no need to believe blindly what others say ,one can think ,seek ,debate, experience democratic ,learning . It seems culture difference in every 100 km . There are many customs n cultures in single state
Very rational opinion. But Jani, with every visit you get more seasoned and that automatically changes the perspective for several things. I would petsonally advise that many practices in India are culturally driven with a logical reason to it. This reasoning is little hard for any foreigner to accept. This is a nation of 130 crores people with a very diversed yet people share seversl beliefs & practices sre commonly through length & breadth of the country.
I thinK this awkwardness of racism is every where in world. My uncle too faced special treatment & favours when he visited some distant part of China. I've seen same respect & photo requests which u mentioned in some distant russian villages. For them we're like brown curry 😆 or a different dimension of colour who r neither white nor black. Its not a problem till u bring bad discrimination along with it. I enjoyed it don't know about yours.
india live in festivals of india.. every two months or one month grand festival take place... So enjoy festival.. if you arrived in navratri you can see people dancing everywhere in north india.(according to my knowledge) , if you came at shiv ratri you can see decoration of temples and squares, and food is distributed everywhere, and most imp. If you haven't eat the food of' Bhandara' (in navratri food was feed by community) then dont say you taste indian food
Well good one those are pretty much very precisely good points I agree with almost everything we have lot of things to changes people and I always say as Gandhi said every country soul Is in it villages not city becoz city all over world are same but villages give the expression of culture and we are not just different on basis of culture but on generation we have people who in almost 17 th century and some are in 21st century so the country itself is so enchanting
The ‘poverty’ is not as painful or shameful for an Indian since it is part of our traditional, spiritual path and almost a necessity. Spirituality is an inner experience. For materialist poverty is HELL! Appearance is almost everything.
12:01 as per hindu i think so nail are part of body or any living thing should never cut or disturb even plants at evening or night because at this time they are at relaxing time. As per are holy book and science we believe in that
It was a time when science made these rules. People used to use earthen, oil lamps. But people passed them down as beliefs. Nails are to be cut during the day so that in case you drop them somewhere on the floor you can find them easily and that you do not accidently injure your sole of the feet by stepping on them. To add incentive, so that you do it the way it is advised, they would say that " Dont cut the nails during the evenings or you will lose money". Similarly washing the clothes during the day is a) good exercise b) good to dry clothes. Indians use a clothing line to hang the wet clothes, mostly in their balconies. The sunlight and the heat acts as a natural dryer. Also, white cotton clothes do not catch moisture when hung to dry during the daytime. However, if you put them to dry during the night time, they may catch the morning / night dew on them, rendering the cloth to be useless for wear. Also, before we became a growing economy, we only used to have a couple of pairs of clothes per person. Thus to make sure that you are able to wear the previous day's clothes, the day after, we used to make sure that the clothes are dry by the evening time.
jenni thanks for sharing good information about India, u r not a tourist u r one of us ok, pls visit Andhra pradesh also south India, hope u Shure defiantly like our culture
The reason it was made that clothes should be washed in the morning coz, 1. There is sunlight during the day and sun dries the cloths. Where are during the night, there is no sun to dry up and lot of nocturnal animals hunt and it might accidentally drop it off on the cloths.
Yes you are right, you are not a tourist you are a citizen of India.. People in my country should understand this, I have one person who is very close to me she experienced the same as you. She feels bad about it sometimes.. And in general she is more Indian than me in many things.. Anyways your accent is full like an Indian, the way you pronounce...
Her experience is very similar to jammie alter.... reason is jamie alter is also indian .... he is a great guy ....hope u can enjoy .... do visit darjeeling 🥰🥰🥰🥰.... money and food are the blessing of goddess Lakshmi ao when we pray to god we use right hand and thats why money is transferred with right hand .... toilet tradition has changed in last 20 years i.e. jet spray use it
Jennifer, I would like to suggest that you must watch the video of Corolina Goswami which is telling about India. She married with an Indian guy...See for yourself how much she loves India.
Bruh you have you been to Rajasthan? Come to Udaipur. It has been ranked as the Most Beautiful City in Asia 2 times.. Jaipur is also good. And ofcourse the Thar Desert. You have been to the hill stations of North. Plateaus, Ghats of South. Please do come to the Desert of the West. 🙏 🙏
Jennifer, I would like to suggest that you must watch the video of Corolina Goswami which is telling about India. She married with an Indian guy...See for yourself how much she loves India.🙏
Wash cloths in morning because you wash dirty cloths (by hand) before you take bath… that’s a culture thing and don’t applicable if we use washer… I love to you your wonderful experiences of India…
You lived in India & understood quite a lot...good..✌👍 Any suggestion to indian who wants to live in germany..🧐 As you have experience in both country..🧐 is racism a problem near future in germany due to more immigrants😑 Your feedback helps a lot...🙂
I am really sorry if u had any bad experience in india....but this is quiet new for india that people are often see foreigners in street....so it will take some time for indian to understand that white people here for living and travelling.....often people afraid bcs of bad experience of colonial rule of Britishers......i hope u can understand it.....love and care....🙏🙏🙏🌺🌺🌺🌺
