Posted by: dekchidriver August 3, 2010
Why Indians in the US act the way they do.
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OP,

Although I respect your service in the military and the cause you have been fighting for, maybe you are a bit misinformed, or maybe its just a wrong case of generalization. 

While your short rant clearly exposes your sheer disgust towards your Indian counterparts, may I remind you that we share a lot of similarities with the dhotis.

Pride is in our blood. You cannot deny the fact that even in Nepal there is a certain chest puffing when it comes to saying one's son is abroad trying to make his life. Boasting may not be justified, but it still happens. 

We are proud people, proud of our heritage and of our establishments, and should realize and appreciate that we may not be the only ones on this planet to have something to swell about. The level of modest-ness between OUR pride and THEIR pride may be debatable, but poking fun of THEM and ridiculing THEM surely isnt the best way to "win the race". 

Competition is healthy, but once you start disrespecting your opponents, you are only going to fck things up for yourself eventually. Treat them as an admirable foe, with both positive AND negative virtues, absorbing the former and avoiding the latter. You don't have to like them, but hating them purely out of spite is only going to make you seem like a sore loser. 

Play nice!


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