[nukkad] Indian students to be blamed, say prosperous Australian Indians

[venkat <>]

Apparenlty menon, mean arya uncle have their twins in Australia too.
Look at the way they condescend and patronize and blame the curry
smelling students for everything. The message is they brought it upon
themselves!


Racist Australians? No, Indians students are blamed

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/PoliticsNation/Racist-Australians-No-Indians-students-are-blamed/articleshow/4634087.cms

9 Jun 2009, 0811 hrs IST, IANS

Indian students in Australia are to be blamed for getting attacked -
this seems to be the belief of many Indians prospering in Australia.
In a flurry of e-mails from Down Under, it is made out that the Indian
students invite these vicious attacks upon themselves.

The Australia-Indian community leaders and their religious/social
welfare organisations have hardly issued any strong statements against
these racist attacks.

During the recent Melbourne protest, hardly any older
Australian-Indians turned up to show their solidarity with the Indian
students even as the students cried themselves hoarse demanding
justice. In fact, some white Australians were seen carrying placards
to support them. Reports in the Indian media stated that these
well-settled Australian-Indians do not want these events to affect
their cushy life or tarnish their relations with whites.

These racial attacks have continued for the last two or three years
with a growing number of them now directed at Indian students whose
numbers have swelled to about 97,000.

Did the local Indians take any individual or community action to
prevent these ugly attacks? On the contrary, when the recent spate of
brutal assaults by Australian hooligans hit the headlines, they were
quick to point out the reasons emanating from the students.

According to e-mails from Australia, Indian students allegedly do not
know English, they display their expensive gadgets like mobiles,
laptops and iPods; play loud music, talk loudly in their native
tongues, live up to 15 in rooms rented for four persons, make their
accommodation filthy, come out to their compounds in their underwear
to urinate in the open and display innumerable other uncouth habits
loathed by Australians. No wonder they are attacked, say the e-mails.

Many students are frustrated when they find that their colleges are
run by Australian-Indian 'crooks'. "When they go to their class, they
find that all the students are from India, and the teacher teaches
them in Hindi/Punjabi. They realise that they could have received a
better education at a fraction of the cost and without the problems
and pains (in India). Many of our people have opened educational
institutions as on-line licensing was so easy here. These people
cheated the system by supplying false information. Now many of such
colleges face closure, further putting strain on students who have
paid so much money to study there," said one such e-mail.

they launch any orientation courses in their places of worship to
'welcome' the new Indian students every year and explain to them the
norms of the Australian way of life?

Did they approach their elected representatives to press for starting
these orientation courses in India or Australia? Or, urge them to
enforce additional measures at the Australian high commission in
India, like an oral English test, before granting them a student visa?
Did they seek the closing down of these sub-standard 'teaching shops'
run by unscrupulous Australian-Indians as they attract unsuspecting
students through their recruiting agents in India?

"Many students have committed suicide due to pressure from India and
their inability to study without tuition as they fail to follow
classroom lectures," says an Indian professional in an e-mail. "They
cannot get more funds from India; on the contrary, every relative from
India phones them asking: 'When will you get a job and remit money to
repay your loan?' Students have been committing suicides here and the
Indian high commission would not even listen to anything nor
acknowledge that there was a problem. Local Indians and students have
been arranging for the dead bodies to be sent to India."

Then the Indian media is to be blamed for highlighting these attacks
and giving an unbalanced picture - never mind the fact that most print
media have published articles by Indian university professors in
Australia or established leaders on this situation and TV channels
aired reports by local and 'citizen' journalists.

They are pained at the reaction from India: film legend Amitabh
Bachchan declining an honorary degree from an Australian university;
Indian tourists cancelling their Aussie holidays in large numbers;
Indian film producers boycotting film shootings; Indian student
numbers declining this year; and perhaps, bilateral trade going down
as India is the seventh biggest trade partner of Australia.

The established Australian-Indians are unwilling to accept the violent
attacks by the Aussie lumpens who demand cigarettes, money and their
gadgets and then slash them with knives or pierce their skulls with
screwdrivers. They would not comment until the courts decide them. How
many convictions have been reported in the last few years? They don't
know. It's to do with their clothes smelling of curry, so they get
'curry-bashing', the local Indians say.

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