India Has an Inferiority Complex. Let's Talk About It. #mindset #bollywood #mentalhealth

Recently a video went viral where people in Mumbai were asked: do you use water or toilet paper? Most of them said toilet paper — and then called water "what villagers use." That one moment cracked something open for me. Because this is not about bathroom habits. It is about something much deeper — a pattern that runs through how we speak, how we dress, how we treat our own language, our own skin, our own culture. We do not just prefer Western things. We are ashamed of Indian things. And most of us do not even notice we are doing it. This is Episode 1 of We Are Ashamed to Be Ourselves — a full series on India's validation epidemic. In this video I talk about: — The toilet paper moment and what it actually reveals — Alia Bhatt, fake accents, and the performance of not being too Indian — The billion-rupee skin whitening industry — What external validation seeking actually means — The root underneath all of it — toxic shame — And the one question this entire series is built to answer: how did we get here? This is not anti-West. This is not nationalism. This is just an honest conversation that most people are afraid to have. Series: We Are Ashamed to Be Ourselves Next video: How our school system was designed to make us feel inferior #aliabhatt #bollywood #India #IndianIdentity #ColonisedMind #SelfAwareness #IndianYouTube #CulturalIdentity #ValidationSeeking #WeAreAshamedToBeOurselves #trauma #shame #toxicshame