Hawkers in India are really annoying.\u00a0 They swamp you at any tourist attraction, trying to sell you junks and spoil your traveling mood.\u00a0 From our experience in Mystore, we learned that the best way to deal with hawkers is to ignore them.\u00a0 We also found that my ignoring is more effective than Mark’s ignoring.\u00a0 Somehow I sense there is a subtle difference between my ignoring than Mark’s.\u00a0\u00a0 As engineers, we have the observation, now we have to find a theory to explain the observation.\u00a0 After some insightful discussion with Mark, we come with a even more effective method dealing with the hawkers.\u00a0 To avoid hawkers, you have to think like a hawker.\u00a0 To think like a hawker, you have to understand the Indian culture<\/p>\n
First of all, let me explain why say NO won’t work.\u00a0 When you are saying NO to the hawker, you are talking to them, you are more or less treating them in equal terms.\u00a0 Even you are yelling at them, the fact that they got your attention is a signal to encourage them try harder.\u00a0 When you ignore the hawkers, you have to ignore them like they are the untouchables<\/u>.\u00a0 They are no difference than a swamp of flies.\u00a0 No only you have to ignore them, you have to show you are despising them.\u00a0 Once you establish your superiority over the hawkers, they will feel shameful about themselves and stay away from you deal to their instinct in the Indian caste system tradition.<\/p>\n
When you ignore the hawker, you should not ignore them passively.\u00a0 If you show any sign of noticing their existence, such as change your path to avoid them, you are inviting them to swamp you.\u00a0 Instead you should ignore them actively, make the hawkers avoid you instead of you avoiding them.\u00a0 You should focus on your destination, walk straight ahead like no one is there.\u00a0 Magically the swamp of hawkers approaching you will yield a road for you like Moses dividing the Red Sea.<\/p>\n
In the civilized world, we teach our kids to treat every human equally.\u00a0 Unfortunately, this ideology only works if every one is educated or at least know some basic manner.\u00a0 It is sad the only way to deal with the street hawkers in Indian is to treat them like dirt.\u00a0 At first I felt a little bit guilty about this.\u00a0 Hey! What the hack!\u00a0 The hawkers are so annoying.\u00a0 They are not deserved to be treat like a human!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hawkers in India are really annoying.\u00a0 They swamp you at any tourist attraction, trying to sell you junks and spoil your traveling mood.\u00a0 From our experience in Mystore, we learned that the best way to deal with hawkers is to ignore them.\u00a0 We also found that my ignoring is more effective than Mark’s ignoring.\u00a0 Somehow … Continue reading Hawkers in India<\/span>