I have observed amongst Indians, over the last 10 years of mass migration in Australia.
I have had the pleasure of working with many Indian migrants on Student visas, working visas or just waiting to be approved as an Australian citizen.
Those I have met are friendly, hard working, proud of their culture and food. Oh boy the food. Never had to bring in my dinner for work working amongst my Hindi co workers.
But a few main things did stand out about them that I couldn’t ignore as an Australian brought up on the Australian way of living.
-They can be very arrogant and inattentive of their own surroundings.
-They tend to talk in their own language with each other in front of those who do not know their language which is very rude when working alongside them.
-they have a hard time assimilating with other cultures other than their own.
-They are extremely bad drivers on our roads. Ignorant ( point no.1) drivers with no idea to look at what is behind them, beside them, like tunnel vision. Also have a hard time understanding our road rules but some believe our road rules don’t apply to them.
-When you answer a Scam call more than 98% of the time it is an Indian on the other end.
-They will hire their own over a more qualified worker that is not of their culture.
-They are everywhere. They have taken over the many suburbs and local businesses that I grew up in. There are probably about 10 different Indian businesses that sell their street food, juice shops, supermarkets all Indian themed with no other options. Turning them into little India ( we actually have a suburb that changed their name to that to keep the Hindi population of that area happy)
List goes on.
I was flying from New Delhi to Kolkata. I was sitting on the aisle seat for a change. I didn’t want to pay extra for a window seat and since it was a late night flight, there wasn’t anything to look outside the window. Since I had the aisle seat, I boarded the flight after most of the passengers had boarded so that I didn’t have to move if the passengers in the window and middle seat arrived after me.
It was an uneventful journey. The flight landed and soon as it stopped on the tarmac, the clacking sound of seat belts engulfed the entire cabin and people got up from their seats. The cabin crew requested the passenger to be seated but nobody cared about it. They were already in the process of getting their bags from the overhead bins. Soon, the aisle got blocked with passengers queuing up to deboard.
Just then, the passengers on my left who were in the middle seat and the window seat asked me to give way so that they could get their bags and join the queue on the aisle.
There was no space to get out. People were standing next to me and I don’t understand what’s the hurry to deboard the aircraft! It’s better to remain seated than block the aisle like school kids queueing up to leave after school gets over. There’s no point in queuing up; you are not going anywhere. Yet they stand like this for 10 minutes before the aircraft’s door opens.
Strangely, I have seen this behaviour only with Indians. Citizens of other nations hardly do this. On my international flights, I have seen very few people get up as soon as the flight lands. Even on those flights, one can easily make out from their faces that the ones who get up are mostly Indians. The basic aviation guideline is to remain seated till the gate opens and after that, you are supposed to exit row-wise. I wonder what these people will do in case some Indian airline is required to do an emergency evacuation. Everyone will block the aisle to get to the emergency exits first and nobody will be able to get out ultimately.
Do you know who is he?
If you think he is the Tik tok star then, my dear friends you are correct .
Do you know this lady?
I am sure, you will not be able to recognised her. she is sunitha krishnan.
let me introduce her.
she is co-founder of Prajwala, the world’s largest civil society organization devoted to eradicating sex trafficking and sex crimes. It has supported over 18,500 women and children reintegrate into society. She is one of three humanitarians nominated for the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity, which is awarded annually in Yerevan, Armenia, on behalf of the survivors of the Armenian Genocide and in gratitude to their saviors. SUNITHA KRISHNAN
Dr. Sunitha Krishnan is the co-founder of Prajwala, or “Eternal Flame,” an organization based in Hyderabad, India, that combats commercial sexual exploitation by confronting traffickers, supporting survivors and developing innovative models of prevention to disrupt the cycle of exploitation across generations.
Before co-founding Prajwala, Sunitha engaged in extensive research about women and children in brothels and earned her master’s and doctorate in psychiatric social work.
Prajwala operates 18 schools for 6,000 children throughout the state of Andhra Pradesh. In close partnership with local law enforcement authorities, Prajwala has offered support for more than 4,636 survivors of commercial sexual exploitation — 2,000 of whom Sunitha liberated personally.
Sunitha has forged partnerships with numerous corporations — including Amul India, Taj Group Hotels, Yashoda Super Specialty Hospitals, HCL Technologies, TV 9 and Heritage Hospitals — to find jobs for rehabilitated women. She has also collaborated with UN agencies and NGOs to establish collective enterprises such as a printing press, a wood and steel furniture unit, and a screen-printing unit to economically empower hundreds of trafficking survivors.
In 2003, Sunitha spearheaded a statewide anti-trafficking campaign in collaboration with key public officials. Working closely with the government, Sunitha helped to shape Andra Pradesh’s anti-trafficking policy, a model in the country because it helps trafficking survivors access rehabilitation and restitution. In 2010, Andra Pradesh adopted a policy Sunitha drafted to ensure quality services for survivors by establishing minimum standards of care for shelters and service providers.
Sunitha has put the issue of commercial sexual exploitation before a wider audience. She has conceptualized, scripted and produced a number of documentary films on contentious issues such as youth and HIV/AIDS, Sheikh marriages and sex trafficking.
These efforts have galvanized India’s battle against sexual slavery by leveraging government, corporate and NGO efforts to achieve measurable results for survivors of commercial sexual exploitation.
In 2008, Sunitha was honored by CNN-IBN as a “Real Hero.” She has also received the Government of India Award, Stree Shakti Puraskar (Woman Power Award), and the Perdita Huston Human Rights Award.
Here in India, common people like faisu and consider them as our motivation but we don’t give a moment or even don’t recognise people like Sama . I’m not saying against faisu, he also did hardwork for his success but when it comes to the title of fame, people like (who actually changed our lives ) find themselves far behind. I don’t know which way we are heading. Our youth just want a tag of Swag on their insta/Tick-tock I’d, and they are happy with it, but we don’t even know the real heroes.
