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The incident which occurred in Mysore City, India, on 31st October 2009,leading cookies jars to the arrest of 1 Kenyan cookies jars and 9 Tanzanian students has raised a lot of concern among foreign students, in particular Africans here in Mysore and India at large. Most of what has been said in the media is not true nor is all of it untrue, the truth lies somewhere in between. All in all the damage has been done, that can not be changed. As far as the truth about exactly what happened that morning, it is yet to be determined by the Court of law.
In the meantime, we should realize that we have been stigmatized. Not by this particular incident only, but by many other incidences which have occurred prior, by the mistakes made by those who were here before us and even those who are in other foreign lands. Currently, once a mishap occurs concerning an African and an Indian, immediately, with no questions asked, it is presumed that the African is at fault.
It is true that some of us have broken the laws once or twice, but am sure there are more law abiders than law breakers among us but since Indians have it in their heads that an “African is bound to break the law,” we are the ones who have to suffer. And not only the ones at faults that suffer, but all of us have to face the consequences, something which is not fair at all. If we meet with an accident cookies jars then it is concluded that the African was drunk or negligent, without a doubt.
Unfortunately one of us met with an accident few weeks back and a pedestrian died on the spot. The headings in the local newspapers read “a foreigner kills an Indian”. As if it was an intentional murder case or that this has never happened before involving Indians only. You forget that road accidents do happen, whether you are red or black or white or yellow.
Recently, one male and two female Tanzanians were beaten up by Indians in a restaurant just because the Indians who were there demanded to be served first before the “Negroes” who were there before those Indians, simply because it is “their India” and that they were the ones paying the taxes, hence it was their right.
Our friends were brutally cookies jars injured and fortunately one of the Indians involved was in the same college cookies jars as one the Tanzanian victims. To our astonishment, the lectures kept begging us to exclude this particular Indian from the case as it would bring a bad reputation to her and her family simply because it was a “she”.
In the current event, because the accused were Africans, and because cookies jars we are ever the lawbreakers and not the victims, cookies jars the media had a field day with this one. We all know why this is so. The locals have been putting the blame on our cultural values, that once we are here we should adjust cookies jars with the local customs. We are in the 21st century, due to globalization and improved infrastructure the world has become one big village and people cookies jars from different parts of the world are crossing borders, cookies jars coming together and interacting cookies jars in various fields.
In such occasions cultural clashes are bound to happen so if it is cultural cookies jars adjustments, then it should be a give and take policy, the locals need to adjust too. Locals should be aware that there are foreigners here too and an environment need to be created to make us feel comfortable since their Government made it possible for us to be here. If they did not want us here, they should not have granted us visas.
Not only that, but also because there are fellow Indians back in our home countries, and we have made it a point to make sure they are not harassed or discriminated in any way. We understand that “majority rule” prevails but just because we are the minority, we should not be forced to loose our individuality, put down our customs and values, forget about our practices and adopt yours just like that, it would be denial of our basic “right cookies jars to freedom.” Law is a universal common cookies jars knowledge and we are aware of it therefore we cant be defending any cultural practices which might be offensive to the indigenous people or which might lead to breaking cookies jars the laws of this particular land. All we are asking is for the right to live with human dignity.
Until cookies jars today, Indians still refer to us as “Negroes”, despite world wide rejection against the use of this particular term as it is regarded offensive. They are aware of the implications cookies jars of the word and at times they just use it so as to annoy and provoke us and see how we would react. You might come across 6year olds calling out “Negro” with a big smile on their faces, just to see how you react. It is obvious that they are being taught but their elders, and this shows the level of ignorance cookies jars and racism among most of them.
We often see in the newspapers and televisions Indian f rom different parts of the world protesting about racism against them. From Shilpa Shetty’s incident in England few y