Reading through a forum on the much documented assaults, I chanced upon this gem of a peace-making post by an Average White Australian (AWA), of the JerryMaguireish ‘You complete me’ variety. The post is documented below:
AWA: “Hopefully some of us might know that OZ is a quite good place for pretty much everyone who wanna carelessly study or even live.
and hopefully some of us might know that Goa is THE place to be for folks around if You wanna.... u know.
but OZ bureaucracy IS centered around equality (and doctored issues of prejudice), while India still maintains a caste system, and as such bureaucracy IS centered around prejudice.
let's not condemn OZ, please.
let's not condemn India, please.
let's be friends”
This is a glimpse into the psyche of your average ‘non-racist’ white Australian, who is busy crying himself hoarse against the generalization of their kind as ‘racist’. Careful analysis of the post will reveal some dreadfully scary presumptions by aforementioned ‘average white Australians’.
A> Examine the first two sentences. The AWA (average white Australian) acknowledges his country as a haven for education and migration, while equivalently, he acknowledges GOA (not even India), as being important only for its umm…u know! Talk about Ignorance and the AWA goes off the charts.
B> Next two sentences. The AWA’s take on our bureaucracy. Seems like he acknowledges the efforts our government has put into establishing ours as the world’s largest representative democracy. The confidence with which the AWA presumes that the caste system exists by the approval of the law scares the living daylights out of me, the ABI (average brown Indian).
C> Now examine the last three sentences. The nerve of the AWA to presume that the average brown Indian is dumb enough to spare him condemnation after reading his delightful views, clarifies that he thinks lower of the ABI (Not a drug dealer/ crack addict) than Matthew Hayden of Harbhajan Singh.
So, you see, this miniscule peek into the mind of an AWA reveals the wonderful job our country’s PR agencies have been doing. Also, the behavior of our citizen ambassadors abroad (largely Punjabis and Gujaratis, thereby comprising unapologetic leching and even more unapologetic bargaining and groupism), not to mention the performance of our cricket team down under, is largely responsible for establishing our country’s image as the land of senile dodos. Whilst the cricket team has now mended its ways, our citizen ambassadors continue undeterred.
But it is defeatist to squarely blame one’s own countrymen for opinions others may have contrived to suit their pretentious and arrogant ‘first world country’ minds. For if at all, these opinionated ones were so unbiased, educated and mature, they surely would have had the sense to look past the untrained, immature and uncivilized demeanors of us humble Indians and let us live out our first world dreams!
This is surely one of those never-ending debates, ala the chicken or the egg/ Rakhi Sawant or Mika/Abhijeet Sawant or a bucket of shit, which no person can win. Save Bal Thackeray, of course, who concluded that we sever all ties with Australia, be they sporting, economic or defense. Now, this decision may seem hasty at first, but practically, this has its advantages, enumerated below:
Better harmony in the cricket team. After years of playing second fiddle to Aussie cricketers when it came to bonking our actresses, apna Indian cricketers will finally be first choice again.
PS: Notice the ‘(K)night Riders‘ embedded on the Preity-Lee picture. Subliminal messages anyone?
No more Foster’s commercials. Need I say more? As if Aman Verma and his radical toilet cleaner squadron weren’t bad enough, we were treated to humungous beer bellies wobbling for the best part of 15 seconds on our TV screens, short people being bullied around and similar uncivilized behavior glorified in the name of being characteristically ‘Aussie’. As if being as uncivilized as them and warping someone in the head with an alarm clock is something we all must aspire to. And then they turn around and call us anti-social!
The Return of the Prodigal sons. All 1,00,000 of our mostly punjabi and gujarati brothers will come back home, providing much needed CPR to the agriculture and food industries. The stock markets will skyrocket. Tourism to hill stations like Mahabaleshwar, Matheran and Ooty will also peak during off season due to the rapid influx of gujaratis with fresh expendable income. The Punjabi influx will ensure better availability of spare parts on the highways (which they will insist on calling ‘freeways’).
Shantarams No More. All those penniless, misbehaved tourists strolling down colaba by lanes, clutching onto their Shantarams and clogging Leopold’s Café resulting in the propulsion of its prices beyond the reach of humble Indian student pockets (Beef steak…I miss thee!) will suddenly disappear. This will help free up some of our most beautiful places hijacked by these thankless pretenders. Did I mention the reduced prostitution and drug trafficking?
Roadies comes back home. Lastly and most importantly, we will now get to see the biggest fools in our country trying to get even more foolish in our own backyard!! Yay!! It might just be me, but I think the easiest way to appease the pissed off Australians is to let Devarshi spend a couple of weeks in Australian karaoke bars (Rok Own\m/).
On a freakish note though, the attack on students in Oz’ wasn’t entirely unpredicted. In fact, one man, or one visionary, I must say, had envisioned these assaults and warned us in advance. Too bad not many of us had the foresight to look beyond the seemingly shallow premise of his words.
Worth a ponder!
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Reply #5 on : Sun June 21, 2009, 07:00:09