Srini Ramakrishnan [22/01/08 07:54 +0530]:
I'd for example feel more at home in the streets of Pittsburgh than in
the little lanes of old Hyderabad. I've lived in both cities. Should I
Shit, I'd feel at home there right now .. the days when there used to be a
riot every other month in the hydbad old city are like 15 or 16 years past
I'd like it to stay that way, the old city has the tastiest biryani joints
in the city. Come to think of it, thats probably the reason.. someone with
his belly full of biryani and irani chai isnt going to plot riots and mayhem
Let me have men about me that are fat;
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights:
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II
There are numerous examples, including what Suresh and Ashok Krish
pointed out. When in the normal course of our lives we are not able to
contain our xenophobic tendencies, how do we expect it to be in
The worst examples of this you will get are not in the USA, not even in
India. You'll get them in Japan. Or China. "Middle kingdom complex",
"gaijin", "gwai loh" etc etc. Of course, in return, they get called
chinks, slant eyes etc elsewhere (and on several Indian college campuses,
that gets accompanied with a stereotype that chinese / northeastern /
tibetan girls are "easy"), so what goes around comes right back in the end.
If you're racist to people in your own country, you are likely to be a
victim of racism elsewhere (americans getting called gweilo / gaijin and
sneered at, politely of course, in japan? not just muslims in gujarat)
srs
