Urban upper-class people are really really unhygienic.
It is also a caste thing. All urban upper class people are dirty and unhygienic more or less, but upper the caste, the more dirty they are.
For example, when brahmin or khatri/kayashthas come stay at my place, they leave it in a wreck. And they always have that audacity to not pick up after them.
Or they’re just way too casteist so that they expect the lower caste person to clean after themselves.
For example, like any household, I have a dustbin, to keep things clean. I have a separate dustbin for dry waste, and a separate bag for wet waste. I take into consideration leakage and smell, and use appropriate bags for that. And it’s always upper castes who are disregarding that despite telling them multiple times. This is what they do: they’d put wet waste in the dry waste dustbin. Worse than that, they’ll throw around plastics and wrappers around the house, instead of putting them in the dustbin. They’d take the waste, and they’d throw it away in such a way in the dustbin that it sits between the liner bag and the dustbin.
Couple days ago someone put wet waste into a dustbin I recently cleaned and was drying, that I have mentioned to not throw into. It was also hidden from common sight. And there already was a dustbin in the outer room to throw food in. Yet someone specifically sought out that dustbin, put their waste into it despite seeing it hidden away and without liner and never told me about it. Thus I am now dealing with an infestation of maggots.
Another upper caste person boiled potatoes in my rice cooker, and didn’t consume it, didn’t throw it away, just kept the whole rice cooker hidden. I wasn’t home for two weeks and I have repeatedly told them to clear out any dirty utensil and get rid of all wet waste. We literally went out with a liner bag of all waste to throw it out. And they chose to hide the cooker itself. As a result my aluminum rice cooker has holes now, as the rotten potatoes melted the bottom.
There is one thing almost all urban upper castes do that drive me fucking insane. They touch any and everything with dirty fucking oily grubby hands. They eat with their hands and with that dirty oily food-residue hand they’d touch all and everything, from bottles to glasses to the food itself and continue like nothing has happened. That’s how you get diseases you fucking morons. I will talk about my personal ick about touching oily things, but like you literally are touching dirty shit and going back to eating? Like what kind of family culture are you coming from? Why has your parents failed to instill basic hygiene in you?
When you disrespect my personal boundaries, I understand! You, coming from an oppressed caste, all you know from your family is to order people like us around. But I don’t understand why your parents can’t teach you basic hygiene. But then again all plagues that has happened in Bengal always happened because of brahmins and their unhygienic practices anyway. It’s just sad to see those practices didn’t go away.
Also cooking, they’d ask to cook, and then ruin my whole kitchen. Use all utensils without a thought, make a nuclear mess out of the kitchen upto the drawing room, and not clean afterwards. As if we are there to fulfil their whims at fingersnap. Oh they also threw away multiple of my steel spoons. I mean who does that?
You know, more often than not it feels like they do it on purpose. Someone wouldn’t flush after pooping in my bathroom despite telling multiple times. People would keep burning my shit despite telling no multiple times. They’d not respect basic hygiene I expect. Would destroy my house, and then later complain about it being dirty. I mean they wouldn’t do it with their parents. They do not do it with their friends who are of the same status. But they feel it is okay to do to me.
And what really grinds my gears is that they always blame their ADHD for this. Yes, ADHD can make you forget things, but you know, not enough to do the things I mentioned above. That requires entitlement. You’re not ADHD, you just want to avoid responsibility and you expect lower caste people to clean after yourselves.
Lower Class – Lower Caste friends of mine do not do that. They ask about putting things, are considerate, pick up after themselves, they also help clean afterwards. It’s just the upper caste-upper classes that are this disrespectful and I am tired of it.
I feel it’s the empathy and basic humanity that Upper Caste – Upper Class people lack for people below their status. And no matter what they say, these are the views they hold inside, and treat people like shit. They do pretend to be nice and sweet but they all are vile. Behind that sweet behaviour, they’re hiding their entitlement and hatred and jealousy towards us. And they’re not even doing a good job hiding it.