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There is a story about this mocking Indian culture. One day the captain of the ship was transporting containers filled with crabs. When he discovered it was cra
by ankurpatel 6y ago
There is a story about this mocking Indian culture. One day the captain of the ship was transporting containers filled with crabs. When he discovered it was crabs he got upset and said to his fellow sailors to make sure there is lids on those containers so that they do not get out. To that one sailor said “Dont worry captain. These are Indian crabs. If one gets up another will pull him down.” I remember thinking of this story and feel we are like crabs in India and some of it has to do with huge population and limited resources. If we had a limited population and plenty of resources we would not be doing Jugad.
- kubanczyk 6y agoI was told on Sri Lanka that if you put one crab in the bucket, he can easily get out. But if you put five, not one can get out because the others pull it down. Is it true? They didn't mention the crabs' nationality though.
- ankurpatel 6y agoThis is just a joke.
- snazz 6y agoThe “crab bucket mentality” is a pretty common idiom.
- kubanczyk 6y agoOh, TIL. I searched for some real zoological evidence, but found none. Fun fact, my native language has no comparable idiom, although the phenomenon is very much present. We just call it "the mentality".