The Indian Hypocrism story
July 5, 2009 by The Nomad
Category: Community, Featured Articles, Society n Culture
Tags: rasicm, unfair |
I've been places. I've seen and spoken to people from all walks of life. I've met some amazing people and I've also met some insufferable people. So what does all this add up to? LIFE. Read on to discover my perspective on life and its mysteries and journeys.
We hear a lot of talk of rasicm especially from Australia of late. We hear stories of being subjected to rasicm abroad. But how fair are we when it comes to treating our own countrymen? Came across this very interesting blog post: http://blog2glory.blogspot.com/2009/03/indian-hypocrism-story.html that dealt precisely with this issue.
Read it and decide how fair we really are!
I’ve been in the US for a while. I have not experienced any racism firsthand anywhere. Even if someone is racist inside, they are polite to you most of the time. I could feel that there maybe some negative feelings with my interactions with people in the rural South here, but that is rather a reaction to someone from the city rather than based on color. I bet a white person would get the same experience if he were an out and out city boy.
In the US, the only pure racism that I have seen is from Indians themselves – the way they treat black people. It is mind numbingly stupid and based on nothing other than ignorance and fear.
Now coming to the current Australian situation, I have gotten information from a friend of mine (Indian, mind it) who explained the story behind it. This group of Indian Students were acting up a little bit and tried to intimidate and boss around some local boys who in turn fought back. When these Indian students then knew they couldn’t handle it and started blaming it on racism.
Just exploitation of their status as minorities that’s all. And once the situation became elevated, it may be true that in some other parts of Australia, some local boys may have felt some bad feelings about all Indians and may have caused an incident or two. But the fact that the fault remains with these Indian dudes remains.
Comment by Domestic Avalanche — July 6, 2009 @ 10:58 am