Tony, The Aussie Chief of Police said what he said in good faith. That the Indian student leader jumped up and down has not been lost within the Indian student community, who are angry and upset at this student leader's pronouncements, some saying he is pushing his own agenda. A Goan barrister, brother of the anthropologist who is currently making rounds in Goa, told me last night that he agreed wholeheartedly with the Police Chief.
What the Chief of Police really meant to say is to adopt a profile similar to the locals, not to attract undue attention to themselves in terms of clothing, manner of talking and general behaviour. The advice of "do not to attract undue attention to oneself" has been my parents' advice to us whilst I was growing up in Goa, and it is my advice to my children. I think it is rather sensible. Don't you? http://www.zeenews.com/news602402.html You come to Melbourne and see how some of these Indian students behave. They drink and smoke as though there's no tomorrow, play their iPods loudly disturbing other people on public transport, place their feet on seats, some behave so arrogantly you need to see to believe, place demands on everything and generally have little manners (Please, Thank you, Excuse Me are lost on them). Think I'm repeating what newspapers say? Talk to my wife - she'll tell you what she thinks of some of her tram-mates in the mornings (BTW, my wife grew up in the quaint village of Chandor). Please note that I'm not generalising, just stating some cold hard facts about some Indian students who give the rest of them a bad name, and it is to such that the Aussie Cheif of Police was addressing. BTW, there are thousands of students from nations other than India that have been studying at Australian Universities in the past and at present - China, Malaysia, Vietnam, Somalia, Sudan, etc. There are little, if any, complaints from them. I leave it to you to reason out why the Indian students, in the last couple of years, have suddenly become so vociferous. On the other hand, it appears that the UK has also got a problem with North Indians - it has clamped down on student visa applications "Indian students in trouble as UK halts visa operations" http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Indian-students-in-trouble-as-UK-halts-visa-operations/articleshow/5527690.cms Quote: Casey said that this suspension was necessary to scrutinize the situation and to save genuine applicants as there were some cases where people were abusing the student visa norms. "Some unscrupulous agents mislead youth by telling them that they can easily attain PR (permanent residency) through student visas, which is totally wrong," he pointed out. Unquote The situation is similar here in Australia. There are a number of fake or near-fake colleges set up here by unscrupulous people of Indian origin, and are hand-in-glove with their agents in India. The Australian government is cracking down on such fly-by-night colleges, shutting down these fake colleges and putting many students to hardship. Others promise accomodation and assistance on arrival, and when they really come here, have absolutely nothing - the addresses they're given are fake. I've had to bail-out a girl from Madras accomodating her temporarily at my residence until she could find herself a place, two years ago. I've heard similar stories from Goan friends in other areas of Melbourne. All this indicates that there has something rotten going on in the last few years, and these complaints of racism could well be a diversion to deflect attention from shady deals carried out by some unscrupulous elements of Indian origin. http://www.theage.com.au/national/probe-has-watch-on-20-colleges-20090406-9uus.html?page=-1 http://www.theage.com.au/national/pressure-to-rein-in-corrupt-colleges-20090413-a4tq.html However, all the brouhaha created seems to have resulted in "Australia tightens rules, cancels 20K visas", and appears to follow the UK lead. http://www.zeenews.com/news602379.html quote: He said the current tensions and misunderstandings have been made worse by unscrupulous migration agents. "[These agents] have been misleading many international students into believing that a course in Australia gave them an automatic entitlement to permanent residence," Senator Evans said. "It does not, and it will not." unquote almost a word-for-word repetition of what the British High Commissioner Casey said. Gabriel. PS I would like you to go across the slums dressed in your sunday best overflowing with jewellery in the late hours of the night and see how you fare. Haven't there been cases of thugs going around Goa dressed as police, robbing people of their jewellery after attending a wedding? ----- Original Message ---- > From: Tony de Sa <[email protected]> > To: "Goa's Premiere Mailing List, Estd 1994" <[email protected]> > Sent: Mon, 8 February, 2010 4:49:39 AM > Subject: [Goanet] Subject: Indian cry-babies allege "racism" > > Really? When an Aussie Chief of Police advises Indians to tone down their > dress and not to wear ipods and rich stuff, why not go the whole hog and ask > them to sew chakras on to the left sides of their chests like the Nazi > swinehunds asking the Jews to wear the star of David? > > Doesn't this warrant more than a chuckle? > > -- > \\\ > Tony de Sa > [email protected] > M : +91 9975 162 897 > Ph. : +91 832 2470 148 > > ^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v __________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo!7: Catch-up on your favourite Channel 7 TV shows easily, legally, and for free at PLUS7. www.tv.yahoo.com.au/plus7
