Is Asian smell strong (strong is a weak word) with body odour?

Why am I writing on 'Body Odour’?

Because it's become or getting to become an international issue. Of course, I am sure; a war will not be erupted within countries or between continents!

An Australian opposition member said she was concerned the new immigrants (mostly Asians) should practice using deodorant and not pushing in when lining up where "about teaching what are norms in Australia".

Now we all perspire, sweat, or have a distinctive scent about our person, but there is nothing worse than being in a confined space, over a lengthy period of time, where your nasal passages are being assaulted by something that could easily be prevented - bad body odour !

Honestly, I think, not all, but lot of people in India carry a strong body odour. I may be used to this body odour when I lived in India. In India I experienced several times felt strong body odour in public places and from few of my friends too. But never considered as an issue, as serious as like Social Issues prevailing in India, or cultural issues like ‘Dowry-Death’ or ‘Caste based discrimination’!

After started living in western country, hardly I was thrown into such a strong ‘hard hitting’ body odour, that may a reason now I feel the difference. After analyzing this- not scientifically – the main reason besides natural or genetic reason, most of the people in India never clean-off the thick ‘Amazon forest' underarm hair. Instead of doing the 'clean-up' and using nice deodrant and/or bodyspray, including guys love to spend their earning to buy and wear gold accessories.

To great relief to see in the India media recently started advertising body deodorant and shaving kit for females.  A famous South Indian Actress promoting a body deodorant, in a subtle way indicating to be used in armpits. What an important hygienic awareness came out openly first time to the Indian mass.

Here in US, one time a female employee gently advised her Indian colleague who is wearing very short top, where all to see, a bunch of hair popping out, to shave-off.

I noticed and realized this a serious issue as a public nuisance when I was in Singapore.

I read 'Lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place' but I experienced this ‘unsolicited, unwanted invasion’ of strong thick disgusting body odour in short spane of time in same day.

In my office, my  colleague, an Indian has so strong body odor, I can smell quarter mile ahead  and I even know, and sure she was there- in that place- because  still I could smell, strong body odour,  she left-behind still lingering around.

On my way back to home I was  in a tight spot, midst of crowded public transport a bus, and this time  few people together blasting the whole place with their strong body odour- it's like I am standing in the 'gas-chamber' sentenced suffocate to death. How long a person can hold his breath? Shockingly these guys are professional Indians working in nearby International Organization. Do they never wash their body properly, shave their underarm or/and never use body spray?

It hits you right through the nostrils to deep inside the throat- sometimes even feel your own saliva taste kind of neem-oil (if you ever tasted that) – so you cannot breath freely and hold your throat tight too.

I am pretty sure this is mostly  due to a lack of personal hygiene which could easily be controlled.

How do you tell someone they smell bad, without it turning into a confrontation, or worse?

By now anyone lifted their hands and smelled their armpits, I made a point.