The Difference...

At the risk of sounding cliched like another one of the countless Indians in the US of A, I wonder aloud. Why are their cities so clean? Where do all the plastic bags, papers et all go? The answer to this doesn’t require genius. They go where they should, in the waste-bins. And who puts them there? Not the civic authorities. The very people who use them.
The other morning I noticed a well-attired man in a public restroom cleaning his shoes with a tissue. After he was done he tossed the tissue towards the waste basket. It however landed outside. Now if this same situation had occurred in India, 99% of the time the paper would be lying there alongside many others. However the guy took the trouble to pick it up and put it into the bin. Took him a just a few seconds. But he did his part.
When we ape the west, when we go to any lengths to get ‘westernized’, why don’t these things ever get imbibed in us? Why do we ape only what is wrong?