Why do Indian women wear gold and silver when they don’t have enough to eat?

Religion and the popularity around them make Indian women still try their best to obtain gold and silver jewelry even when they don’t have enough food and clothing. This is actually a kind of tragedy! But there's nothing we can do about it, because that's how Indians think, so we can't judge.

India is famous for its huge gap between rich and poor. In Mumbai, India, a wall separates two worlds, one is the glamorous world of the rich and fashionable, and the other is the filthy slums. People live in despair. So why do women in Indian slums wear expensive clothes and they don't even get enough food? In fact, the status of women in India is very low, so unlike other places, Indian women must prepare sufficient bride price when they get married.

But slum dwellers in India have no money at all, so they save their money and buy things that look like gold, or very cheap gold jewelry, and of course very low-purity gold bracelets. Because pure gold jewelry with low purity is relatively cheap, and some are gold-plated, there are many such suppliers in India. This is why people say you should never buy gold and silver jewelry when traveling to India.

Because of India’s unique religious culture, all Indians like gold very much. Gold is a symbol of wealth and prosperity, which is the content of Hinduism. It is considered very impolite for a woman to go out without gold jewelry. This concept is so deeply ingrained that all Indian women, no matter how poor they are, even if they don’t have enough to eat, will buy themselves a set of gold jewelry. Even fake gold jewelry is a must.