Racist Australians? No, Indian to blamed

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Racist Australians? No, Indians students are blamed

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.

If the well-settled Australian-Indians have known all these problems for the last few years, what have they done to alleviate the situation? Did 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.

(09-06-2009- The author previously worked abroad as a newspaper editor and has travelled to over 50 countries. He lives in New Delhi and can be contacted at: kulbhushan2040@gmail.com)

Kul Bhushan
 
Re: Racist Australians? No, Indian to bl

Its funny how you get attacked for talking in your native tongue.

What a load of bullcrap........


hamesha gorean nu hi kyun prblm aundi a.......if you dont like someone stay away....sara kuch hundey hoey v paglan wangu kari jandey a...and trade should be reduced...India should send a clear message.
 
Re: Racist Australians? No, Indian to bl

i agree...in my experience its those "whitewashed" indian people that only care about their reputation, money and relations with "whites".

Ehi bandey jad koi faidey wali gul hovey tah apney bandea dey naal ho jandey a.....jad dujey pasey milda hovey kuch tah ohdar ho jandey a.....

I think Canada and US are better in this regard. Normal thinking is that "every person is unique and brings a different viewpoint to the country" in Canada. In the US the laws are fair and strict.....in most big cities.

I have no doubts that there are racist elements in Australia. In US and Canada you see swift action in these kind of cases whereas i see Australian politicians blaming indian students and denying racist elements.


and when did talking another language and opening colleges become reasons to attack someone?

I have seen these "whities" do much worse stuff
 

Sonia_Nz

>>>>MaHiYa<<<<
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seems more like a gate crashin issue than a racism one...though the media took it the other way jus coz an asian was attacked...
about a month back similar thing happened in nz which took the life of one teen white boy by a bunch of white holigans who gate crashed the party n then wen asked to leave started a fite...so was that racism!!!!!!!!
 

prithvi.k

on off on off......
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Update-----
Students protest in Sydney; youth’s car burnt in Melbourne

Students from other countries also participated in the rally, held to agitate against the increasing number of racial attacks in the country

Melbourne: Chanting ‘Vande Matram’ and ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’, hundreds of Indian students rallied in Sydney to protest against a spate of racial attacks and demand justice for victims. Students from other countries also joined the protests.

On Saturday night, Vikrant Ratan, 22, who used all his savings to buy a $2,500 car, said the vehicle was burnt outside his home. Ratan, who hails from Ludhiana, said that two other cars, also belonging to Indians, that were parked next to his vehicle, were also damaged.

“We were sleeping when it happened. We heard the fire alarm of the car. When we went out to see what happened we saw the car on fire,” he said.

He suspects that it could have been done by a group of drug addicts who used to sit near the premises. Ratan, who came here a month ago to study automotive engineering, said that there was no chance of a short circuit in this cold weather. Ratan said he had bought the vehicle a few days ago and it was not even insured...


Student attacked twice in fortnight
23-year-old Kamal Jit, who was found unconscious and bleeding on Sunday, is the 11th Indian to be assaulted within a month in Australia

Melbourne: A 23-year-old Indian student was beaten up for the second time in a fortnight by a group of youths here, the 11th person from the community to be assaulted within a space of a month in Australia.

Kamal Jit was found unconscious and bleeding by another Indian student in a western suburb of the city on Sunday. Jit was previously pelted with eggs by masked men after getting off a late night train at St Albans station.

“It is bad because we pay a lot of money and we are living far away from our country and from our families and we are without protection,” Jit was quoted as saying in The Age newspaper on Monday.

As he walked home at about 1:40 am, Jit said, he noticed three men acting suspiciously in a car and he tried to avoid them. He then saw two men come out of it near a pizza shop, while another waited in a car. “The two guys pushed me to the ground and I was hit on the head, I think with a steel rod,” Jit, who required seven stitches after the blow to his head, said.

A Victoria police spokeswoman was quoted by the newspaper as saying that extra police, increased surveillance and mobile patrols had been deployed around train stations.

The Australian government had last week announced setting up of a Task Force headed by the National Security Adviser to deal with such violence.

Hundreds of Indian students on Sunday rallied in Sydney to protest against the attacks. Apart from Indians, there were students from other countries at the rally, who voiced their concerns about the racial violence and demanded police to be alert to prevent such incidents from happening again.
 

prithvi.k

on off on off......
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Indians stab abuser in retaliatory attack woooooooow teach these kangaroos nice lesson
20-yr-old who was hospitalised had allegedly called the Indian students ‘black’ and asked them to ‘go away from our country’..........

Melbourne:
A 20-year-old man was stabbed here, in possibly the first act of retaliation, after he had allegedly abused a group of Indian students.

The victim allegedly said ‘You are black. You don’t belong here. Go away from our country’, The Age newspaper reported.

Police said they were looking for two dark-skinned men aged between 23 and 29 years in connection with the attack. They said a car believed to belong to people attacking Indians was torched at a factory near the station.

The attack on the victim was the first time Indian students appeared to have retaliated against violent attacks, the daily said.

Chairman of the Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria, Sam Afra, said it would be unacceptable for the Indian community to take the law into its own hands.

The Age report said a man who did not want his name published said the Indians took the action “in self-defence” after police failed to respond to their call for protection.

He disputed claims by police that they were liaising with the Indian community group that gathers at the station each night to protect late travellers from attacks. “The police don’t care. In this suburb, everyone is a migrant,” he said.

Students told to stop patrolling

Australian authorities on Tuesday asked Indian students to disband their patrol groups and “let the police do their jobs.”

Deputy PM Julia Gillard said the government had been working with Victoria and other states to ensure that Indian students feel safe in Australia.

Her comments came in the wake of hundreds of Indian students protesting against continuing attacks. Police called a dog squad to control protesters who were wielding sticks and baseball bats.

The demonstration began Monday night after a 20-year-old Indian student was allegedly assaulted by a group of men of Middle Eastern appearance, police said. Besides, Indians have also formed groups to protect students at St Albans and Thomastown railway stations after a spate of assaults in the area.
 

prithvi.k

on off on off......
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wah virky.. "Indians stab abuser in retaliatory attack" kithe ah tuh tah nahi seh
 
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