Never having been to Australia and with no first hand experience of aussies to recount about, a million questions flooded my mind when following the recent bruhaha about the allegedly racist attacks on Indians down under:
a) Is Australia a racist country or just a country with a large number of extreme criminal assaults? Reading online papers i saw there are dozens of attacks, stabbing, shooting, etc reported everyday.
b) While ordinary Aussies may not be racist in general are they violent in general? Right from the Foster's beer ad to the way their cricketers behave, to the general reaction to anything they dont like with some punching this was a thought that came to my mind.
c) Do they know about their general violent nature at a personal level and arent necessarily proud about it? So they throw smoke screens like not visiting a country citing security reasons, generally being over defensive about racism, and counterattacking about race all the time.
d) Are Indians talking the racism thingie too far? What is racist- the attacks because the victims are Indian (I doubt this coz there are lot of other attacks as well)? or the recognition by appearance that a potential victim is Indian and hence easy prey?
e) Is recognizing an Indian for being an Indian, a Black for being a Black, or a Hispanic for being a HIspanic being racist?
f) Why should one Indian not speak to another in his native language or make eye contact with the locals? I was amazed at folks advising this as a means of avoiding attacked. Hello dont Indians have a life of pride? Assimilation doesnt mean forgoing identity!!
g) Were the Aussie police being insensitive and close minded or plain dumb when they started off on a physically pushing and dragging protestors knowing fully well that this could be a sensitive issue?
h) Biggest of all - Why the hell dont Indians have any Street Cred? Are they really that passive a race who are capable of violence against one another but step back when threatened with physical violence from another race?
i) Can the Indian government do anything at all? I doubt it coz we have a poor record of stopping violence at home and the kind of atrocities that happen in India.
j) I also read a lot of Aussie comments saying "Take it or leave it" "If you dont like us go home" blah blah. If you dont want other folks coming over then dont your government have the balls to say it aloud? Why advertise about travelling to Australia, Studying in Australia, and the like?
Hopefully all the mindless violence will come to an end and hopefully the peace marches will work.
a) Is Australia a racist country or just a country with a large number of extreme criminal assaults? Reading online papers i saw there are dozens of attacks, stabbing, shooting, etc reported everyday.
b) While ordinary Aussies may not be racist in general are they violent in general? Right from the Foster's beer ad to the way their cricketers behave, to the general reaction to anything they dont like with some punching this was a thought that came to my mind.
c) Do they know about their general violent nature at a personal level and arent necessarily proud about it? So they throw smoke screens like not visiting a country citing security reasons, generally being over defensive about racism, and counterattacking about race all the time.
d) Are Indians talking the racism thingie too far? What is racist- the attacks because the victims are Indian (I doubt this coz there are lot of other attacks as well)? or the recognition by appearance that a potential victim is Indian and hence easy prey?
e) Is recognizing an Indian for being an Indian, a Black for being a Black, or a Hispanic for being a HIspanic being racist?
f) Why should one Indian not speak to another in his native language or make eye contact with the locals? I was amazed at folks advising this as a means of avoiding attacked. Hello dont Indians have a life of pride? Assimilation doesnt mean forgoing identity!!
g) Were the Aussie police being insensitive and close minded or plain dumb when they started off on a physically pushing and dragging protestors knowing fully well that this could be a sensitive issue?
h) Biggest of all - Why the hell dont Indians have any Street Cred? Are they really that passive a race who are capable of violence against one another but step back when threatened with physical violence from another race?
i) Can the Indian government do anything at all? I doubt it coz we have a poor record of stopping violence at home and the kind of atrocities that happen in India.
j) I also read a lot of Aussie comments saying "Take it or leave it" "If you dont like us go home" blah blah. If you dont want other folks coming over then dont your government have the balls to say it aloud? Why advertise about travelling to Australia, Studying in Australia, and the like?
Hopefully all the mindless violence will come to an end and hopefully the peace marches will work.
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