Posted on: 02-09-05 21:54:44
One of my fav. questions someone ever asked me about India was - "so...do you have trees in India"?
Answer - no, all our elephants eat sand.
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"Mah deah, there is much more money to be made in the destruction of civilization than in building it up."
-- Rhett Butler in "Gone with the Wind"
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Orginally posted by BlueLobster
"Have you ever seen electricity before?" (This was an actual question to my friend at Univ. of Arkinsas)
To which he replied "No, its the first time I've seen it after landing in the states in my row boat. Its a wonderful invention."
Genunine Ignorance or Typical American Arrogance?
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Microsoft - Which end of the stick do you want today?
I used to work in a call centre for US customers. The most common Q, I havebeen asked was,
"How many snakebites did you have ?"
Unfortunately, I couldn't answer back.
But what an ignorant/arrogant bunch of people !!!!!!
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Let's help each other to grow & prosper in Canada
Quote:Not many, however, I did get eaten by an elephant once
Orginally posted by reachash
"How many snakebites did you have ?"
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"Mah deah, there is much more money to be made in the destruction of civilization than in building it up."
-- Rhett Butler in "Gone with the Wind"
My today's experience....
My son's first day at school...we landed 15 min. early and were chatting...a Guayanese lady came up to me and said ' Are you new here? You are talking in English!!!!!!!!! You are from India and you talk ENGLISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! she beckons her son ' Charles......look they are from India and they TALK ENGLISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have been speechless since......
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It is so simple to be happy but so difficult to be simple
That is the reason they just can't digest that 'these desi, illeterate people , don't know how but are great at computers, have got good english & degrees & stealing all the jobmarket.what the heck??...'
They were thinking that we still ride elephants, we still have snakebites, we don't know English & we don't have food to eat & probably have not seen electricity & we Indian we let them keep thinking what ever they want & while they were thinking we went right into their land & showed them that We know everything that they know & probably more. we can survive better in their land as well. If they have to spend even just week in our land, that is where will come to know who is better.
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Orginally posted by reachash
I used to work in a call centre for US customers. The most common Q, I havebeen asked was,
"How many snakebites did you have ?"
Unfortunately, I couldn't answer back.
But what an ignorant/arrogant bunch of people !!!!!!
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Orginally posted by worship
My today's experience....
My son's first day at school...we landed 15 min. early and were chatting...a Guayanese lady came up to me and said ' Are you new here? You are talking in English!!!!!!!!! You are from India and you talk ENGLISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! she beckons her son ' Charles......look they are from India and they TALK ENGLISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have been speechless since......
My portuguese neighbours parents dont speak a word of English...they've been here for 20 yrs(they do speak french besides their mother tongue)...the neighbour was amazed by the fact that my in-laws from b'bay speak fluent English when his parents did not. I personally find it understandable that many Canadians do not expect people from India to know English when many of their immigrant parents(fromEurope/Asia/Africa etc) probably did not speak good English to start with.
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