Most of you know this but it keeps striking me as odd how there is a different pricing system for foreigners at most (if not all) national monuments. Entry for Indians - Rs. 5, for foreigners - Rs. 100. What's worse is, this comes down to racism. Because no one is checking for passports or anything. By rule, an American of Indian origin should be charged Rs. 100, but instead it's the White-, Black- and perhaps Asian-looking folks that are charged the Rs. 100.
And it's not even commented upon. I've seen atleast one incident where a foreigners walked upto a monuments and seeing the price tag, walked away. Now granted, a real tourist would pay because that's why he's there. But local non-Indians and semi-local ones, like for eg, the ones who work at my company, wouldn't bother entering these places because of this discrimination.
And that's the thing. It's not because the price tag is higher. But because they're using a double standard. Normally I'm take a lot of perverse pleasure in double standards, but this is just ridiculous.
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