Racism in India

[UBIQUITOUS]

Patriotism is much maligned by the unaligned masses seeking a nirvana in Total World Guvment according to their own biases.

India is probably one of the most racist countries I've ever visited.

gg

You said that you went in the early eighties. Therefore using your logic, I would say that Australia is one of the most racist countries I have ever visited based on the way Aboriginies were 'assimilated' many years ago.

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

You said that you went in the early eighties. Therefore using your logic, I would say that Australia is one of the most racist countries I have ever visited based on the way Aboriginies were 'assimilated' many years ago.

tut tut ubi,

Selectively quoting is poor, very poor.

Go back and read the post and quote the entire paragraph.

:headshake


gg

 

[prozac]

Should have used Wacko Jacko in the ad.

I was told that dead persons can be used by advertisers without having to pay royalties.

You'd have to dig him up first!

 

[prozac]

Chinese are pretty good at it too escept in China you're likely to get locked up for being wrong type of Chinese or your belief.

I have a Chinese neighbour on one side and Jordanians on the other. The Jordanians had pommy neighbours until recently. The Chinese family hate me and I believe it is racism. They hate the Jordanians and have told me as much, except when they want to complain about someone else in the street (me). The pommies hated the Jordanians calling them Arabs which strictly speaking is a different race again. The Jordanians and I just laugh about it over a beer.

 

[UBIQUITOUS]

tut tut ubi,

Selectively quoting is poor, very poor.

Go back and read the post and quote the entire paragraph.

:headshake


gg

I thought it is good, very good. I should be a journalist!

On the subject of India, I will say that its not racism which is so prevalent there, it is all forms of 'isms'. Lets just say that I know a LOT about India.

However, I would also say that us Aussies get SO defensive when anybody questions us (I can lay claim to several nationalities). Yes India should look at themselves, but I do believe that there is an issue here with the treatment of Indian students. Its 50% racism, 50% studentism.

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

I thought it is good, very good. I should be a journalist!

On the subject of India, I will say that its not racism which is so prevalent there, it is all forms of 'isms'. Lets just say that I know a LOT about India.

However, I would also say that us Aussies get SO defensive when anybody questions us (I can lay claim to several nationalities). Yes India should look at themselves, but I do believe that there is an issue here with the treatment of Indian students. Its 50% racism, 50% studentism.

One of the garpalsons is seeing a mate off to Afghanistan tonight.

His mates all come from different ethnic backgrounds and all share their loyalty to the ADF.

It will take a few generations to breed out the Jordanian and Chinese genes into Aussie, maybe longer for the Pom.

But in the end their grandchildren or g grandkids hopefully will be Australian.

In India, black or less black still matters. You are born poor and black, and the lighter castes ensure you stay poor. And thats what pisses me off about those silly bastards in India, who can't even play cricket, having a go at Australia for alleged racism.

gg

 

[nunthewiser]

Hmmmmmmmmmm

Well being an Australian of Burmese and Pommy descent with a cupla Indian uncles (in laws), and a Burmese uncle that married a Thai girl and a spanish brother in law and a best mate thats Aborginal thats shacked up with an Italian girl.... Who the hell can i pick on ??.

Might get some Chinese and wash it down with a German beer whilst smoking some afganni hash.

Geez small minded people shiit me .

Ooops i nearly forgot . My Grandafather was French silly ole bugger that he was for going to Burma in the first place and causing all this kerfuffle .

 

[prozac]

Hahahaaa.

I reckon the Chinese guy is the worst and the pommies who recently moved don't even really like the Australians so I reckon they will take a long time to assimilate. Because they are white it is harder to pick. The Jordanian neighbours are doing better than any of the others and are very neighbourly and more assimilated than any of the others.

Back to India, last week an Indian bloke murdered his young Indian wife in Sydney. Not a racist attack I know but nonetheless and Indian death in a foreign land that will not be reported in India because it did not involve a non Indian person as the perpetrator. Just a thought.

 

[pilots]

Hahahaaa.

I reckon the Chinese guy is the worst and the pommies who recently moved don't even really like the Australians so I reckon they will take a long time to assimilate. Because they are white it is harder to pick. The Jordanian neighbours are doing better than any of the others and are very neighbourly and more assimilated than any of the others.

Back to India, last week an Indian bloke murdered his young Indian wife in Sydney. Not a racist attack I know but nonetheless and Indian death in a foreign land that will not be reported in India because it did not involve a non Indian person as the perpetrator. Just a thought.

Had the same thing here in Perth, top lawyers wife, who both are Indian, was murdered and dumped in Kinks park, the cops said it could be the husband that done it, he now is going to sue the police.

 

[prozac]

Death by Indian....doesn't count.

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

Agree.

Burt Munro would be ashamed of these Indians.

gg

 

[condog]

Australian citizens of Indian decent have come out this afternoon saying they are disgusted in the report........

To mee its not a racist issue, its a violence and criminal infested society that needs fixing.......

has noithing to do with race, and I am so glad these Ausie based Indian spokes people made this clear....

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

Australian citizens of Indian decent have come out this afternoon saying they are disgusted in the report........

To mee its not a racist issue, its a violence and criminal infested society that needs fixing.......

has noithing to do with race, and I am so glad these Ausie based Indian spokes people made this clear....

Yes garpalcircle includes many Indians and they are distressed by the reports from India, while maintaining an open mind on the recent murder.

gg

 

[IFocus]

Hmmmmmmmmmm

Well being an Australian of Burmese and Pommy descent with a cupla Indian uncles (in laws), and a Burmese uncle that married a Thai girl and a spanish brother in law and a best mate thats Aborginal thats shacked up with an Italian girl.... Who the hell can i pick on ??.

Might get some Chinese and wash it down with a German beer whilst smoking some afganni hash.

Geez small minded people shiit me .

Ooops i nearly forgot . My Grandafather was French silly ole bugger that he was for going to Burma in the first place and causing all this kerfuffle .

Always knew you were a real Aussie Nun

 

[Tink]

The media always fuels the masses, no matter what country you are in.

 

[Prospector]

The media always fuels the masses, no matter what country you are in.

I think the media runs the country! And I hate it when the media says things like "People are clamouring for information about ABC person" - no they aren't, the media just tells us that we are because that is what their agenda, not ours! Or they make up some details, then go out of their way to tell us its the truth!

 

[Calliope]

An Australian working in India picked a bad time to start a one-man crusade to improve the sanitation standards on the streets. He took a pot-shot with an air rifle from his balcony, where he was drinking with his mates, at an Indian having a leak in the street.

He has been charged with attempted murder. Being an Aussie his excuse will be, no doubt, that he was drunk. This defence, however, only works in Australia, where drunkenness is part of our culture.

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

An Australian working in India picked a bad time to start a one-man crusade to improve the sanitation standards on the streets. He took a pot-shot with an air rifle from his balcony, where he was drinking with his mates, at an Indian having a leak in the street.

He has been charged with attempted murder. Being an Aussie his excuse will be, no doubt, that he was drunk. This defence, however, only works in Australia, where drunkenness is part of our culture.

I guess the Indians may take it out on this bloke as a proxy for all Australians. It will be interesting to see how the judicial process works out. They are a good people by and large legislatively and judicially, having passed and enforced many brave laws attemting to curb the ingrained racist views of the ruling classes.

gg

 

[GumbyLearner]

This country has racists. No question, but I defy anyone to name one that doesn't.

So, I don't think labelling another country as racist in reaction to news items or whatever, is a particularly cool thing. But - in this country we still have relatively "free speech".

I tend to agree and we do have relatively "free speech". But it does help if
1. your in politics
2. preferably with the surname Theophanus
3. cashed up enough to litigate against newspapers
4. a penchant for beautiful Asian women

I agree there are racists in this country. Thank God we didn't grow up under the old Soviet Bloc!

 

[Purple XS2]

I last lived in Melbun (where I grew up) a few years ago, recently enough to see gang violence and hoodsterism were much worse than in former days. If the attention on the violence against Indian and other overseas students leads to a crack down on thugs, then those who spotlight the issue are doing us all a favour.

... I do believe that there is an issue here with the treatment of Indian students. Its 50% racism, 50% studentism.

Every case has its own perpetrators and its causes, but my crystal ball says another factor is that certain elements in Australia, having seen the outrage such attacks are causing, are motivated to fan the flames, not simply because they hate Indians (which I'm sure they do) but because they hate Australia more.

P.