How do you all accept the dust/grime/dirt/pollution/litter/animal feces?

I'm not asking this to rip on India or Indians. My family is from India and I'm here visiting. It's been a pretty good trip so far, but the dirty environment has me scratching my head. How do you people tolerate living in such filthy environments? The open patches of dirt littered with trash, the open gutters, animals relieving themselves anywhere and everywhere, the **fucking DUST** that coats every thing that has and will ever exist inside India, the pollution that casts a purplish haze over the sky for much of the day, the occasional trash heap fires....it's just sickening. I bring this up to people and either they ignore it outright or actually see this as a point of pride. One of my uncles told me that the filthiness of the environment was a testament to the power of the Indian immune system. Such bullshit, I know, but I didn't have the heart to call him out on it. I'd respect India a lot more if people willingly lived like this out of respect to nature or as a statement against overdevelopment....but we all damn well know that ain't the case. And I can't think of any more fitting example of people not giving a fuck about the environment than what I saw today. I visited a Jain temple early in the afternoon. People were literally parking their cars on open fields before going into the temple. Aren't there creatures in the grass that you might be killing with your Hyundais and Suzukis? Then again, I guess the inconvenience of somebody parking a little further out on cement is too much to ask....for fuck's sake..... People aren't accepting the dirty environment as a matter of principle. It's something to be tolerated. But why? This is what I don't get. How do you guys tolerate this? Doesn't anybody here want to do better? Especially those people that come here after spending time abroad in Western countries....they've experienced much more "sanitized" environments and yet they still seem to accept the filthiness as well. I just don't fucking get it. The cleanest environments I've seen so far here in India are inside American chain restaurants (McDs, Starbucks, KFC). Think about that.