Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Thoughts on Oz Racial attacks

So there is a huge cry about Indians being targeted and mindlessly attacked in some of the biggest cities in Australia.... These attacks apparently are 'Racially' motivated...

Racially!! Really? India is crying about Racially motivated attacks???

Sounds bit weird to me because this comes from a country where fairness creams are probably the highest selling cosmetic. If you are too lazy to use those, we even have bath soaps to make your skin 'fair'. If you think this has nothing to do with racism, never mind.... just ignore I mentioned it...

After the black-white division, we have the caste division. God alone knows how many of these we have. Needless to say, many! Why are they even there I will never know... maybe the people belonging to these caste's want to be called lower/backward classes because apparently they have a 27% quota in IIM's. We even had this female leader of some party who tried to take advantage of her caste and claimed the new PM of India should be an untouchable... But for the sake of an argument, lets just say this is not the case. Maybe all of them don't like to be called untouchables or SC's anymore... but then who is still discriminating them because of their caste?

I don't really want to bring the topic of Religion here, but I feel that it fits in well here. Indians follow a variety of Religion's and you can still find a lot of conflicts between them. People belonging to the majority attacking the minority just to show their supremacy (because one of the names of our country is a derived from the religions name) and the minority attacking/trying to convert few people belonging to the majority just to show their ego.

One way or another, we discriminate against each other in India. Racism is a subset of Discrimination. Unless we solve our problems first, we can't point fingers at others.

Indian government was fast to react and say ...'Hey they are Indian's, you should protect them from these attack's'. WTF??????????

Did this shameless government protect us when terrorists blew up bombs and shot dead scores of people in INDIA??? After they caught these people, did the government do anything noteworthy about it???? Did they teach anyone a lesson???

As critical as the guys in Oz may be, they didn't die. Its horrible of me to say that, I know. I don't mean to say that they didn't die, so its okay. An attack on another human is not forgivable and I hope they get well soon without any long term disability. But when so many Indians were killed in India and the government didn't do anything about it, its not very fair to ask some other government to take care of our citizens in their country.

1 comment:

Pamela Q Fernandes said...

Worse still did u know that even the lousy pg exams for doctors has a 50% reservation for backward castes....now blinking hell how do doctors become backward after they have got their freakin degrees?
Racism is so widespread in all colors, castes etc in India ....like they say ' it takes a racist to identify another racist' so India suggests... hehe