The grueling experience at US

Dear Pushpa maam,

I am very sorry to hear the incident(s).

Yes, I can hear what you say.It really gets on to my nerves when I see these Americans checking only the Asians and insult them in the name of security check.

I was working with one of the leading Bank in US.Can you imagine one of my client working in the same bank(I repeat same bank to stress on his education) told me that his flight landed in Singapore due to an emergency and he was scared throughout sitting in the flight since he has landed in a terrorist country.How stupid can he be?I was wondering whether he knows anything other than US.I explained him that terrorism started in British days and COLONIALISM IS A FORM OF TERRORISM.You need not be scared of us as we are good and receptive(which leaded to colonialism).Though he said "Ooops sorry I misunderstood things.It is so foolish of me.."blah.blh..blah...I know that these guys are frog in the well and will never change.

We just cannot change this attitude of theirs.It is our own people who put us down in front of them.Because we are the ones who take these insults silently and say "US is the Best".I had a (specimen) classmate during my college days.When this guy got less marks in his GRE exams and did not get admission in good colleges, went with his friends to Elliots Beach and started acting crazy over there saying "India is the best man"...Can you imagine we have nuts like this?We have a lot of wierdos like these.

A lot of us say "phew..the same Indian mentality".Come on what is wrong with Indian mentality and who said American mentality is the best.

People coming back from Foreign countries asking whether the Indian education would "SUIT" their kid even after knowing that we have better education .phew....

And last but not the least when they try to imitate THE ACCENT.For god's sake why don't we realise that ENGLISH IS JUST A LANGUAGE LIKE TAMIL OR HINDI.Speak in whichever accent you are comfortable.I have seen people saying with pride that their relatives have difficulty in understanding their kid's english(due to the accent).

I agree 100% with what Srividhya has told.

I would say that Americans are generally good and they live their way of life.The checkings and others things are part of their life.

But is us(Indians) who need a rude wakening.We need to learn to respect ourselves first.Wherever we are we need to good human being first.

Please do not misundserstand that I am against all NRIs.I am just trying to say as NRIs we have a extra responsibility of showcasing India.

 

Dear PS

Thanks for your message. Pushpa, Americans are not racist I said, but their system..... especially the airport staff.

Having said that I want to share my own experience. When we visited Hong Kong and China last year, (In Hong Kong it was visa on arrival for Indian passport) everything went off so well until we reach the HK rly station from Shenzhen (China), where we went by train from Hong Kong, a trip organised by a tour operator. In the group, except our family all others are westerners from Australia, New Zealand and Europe.

Each and every one followed the same procedure from the moment we left our hotel in HK. But on our return to HK Rly station from Shenzhe, the Immigration told us to stay in the side allowing all others move forward retaining our passports. We were wondering why....... and lead us to a room. They told us wait there, where many Chinese without Visa etc were detained and or for some other reasons which was very unpleasant for us.

There were 3 or 4 cubicles where they keep calling every one turn by turn for questioning. They called my DH and he went (they stopped us accompanying him), then he called me and my DD. Asked why we went to China, what we are doing and similar unnecessary questions (we were very worried as to the best of our knowledge we did not do anything illegal). On arrival from Dubai at HK airport they gave us Visa without a question!!!!!!!! whats the problem in the Rly station for them? I prayed and called all Gods. At last after 2 hours they let us leave......... why? We are browns and not whites or what reason?

The entire world supports Fair and Lovely and not Brown and Lovely.

This is my opinion.

Thanks Pushpa that you liked my saree suggestion.........

Best Regards
Shanti

 

Dear PS,
Sad that you had some lousy experience in US. I suppose they are quite paranoid about lot of things and mostly they are not knowlegeable about other world.
9/11 had made matters worse. As to airlines ,asian airlines are courteous and hospitable compared to others. Though i don't have much good opinion about AI due to inefficiency, but Indians are generally hospitable.
Jaya