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Recently the US media had come down to
downright racist abuses when the golfer Vijay Singh, one of the best
international players, questioned the wisdom of inviting women golfers to
compete with their male colleagues in top golf tournaments in the world. A
Fijian by birth and nationality, Vijay Singh is obviously of Indian origin.
That was enough for the self-righteous pundits in the US to denounce his
Indian heritage. The preaching Americans held that India was a primitive land
where things like gender equality were unknown. In other words, Vijay Singh
represented an uncivilized society and, hence, had behaved true to form.
And true to the India’s
“primitive” and “uncivilized” traditions, the insults were quietly stomached
by the Indian media, golf players (mostly big sahibs) and the (supplicating)
government. The US, after all, is the sole super power. Displeasing anyone in
that god’s own land can be pretty risky. So the US remains free to give
sermons to India on gender equality, human rights and many other related and
un-related issues-except one. And that is “hate crime”.
After 9/11 it is clearly
kosher in the US to insult and harass and even kill-brownskinned people.
Indian politicians, captains of industry and film stars, all have been
subjected to humiliation in the US-some of them, in fact, when they were on
way to the US in an airplane! But one does not expect the US government to
apologize or express “concern” at such incidents. Contrast this with what
happened a few years ago when, if memory serves right, the US threatened the
tiny Island State of Singapore for daring to inflict its severe traffic
offence punishment on a US youth.
It is perhaps a peculiar
“pastime” of a “primitive” country like India to convey regrets and sorrows,
often with personal visits by officials, to the unintended victims of any
harassment.
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Hate crimes against Indians in US on
the rise
http://samachar.com/features/090703-features.html
By: Allabaksh Hyderabadi |
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