Confession from a third world country
No offense anyone, I am from third world country and I accept that we have a lot of prejudices and qualities. In this article, I am trying to share a few facts which may surprise many first world country readers along with answering their doubts about our behavior and practices.
We are not native English speakers!
1% of upper-class Indians can speak good English while others are struggling to learn this language. English is the unofficial official language of India and you can get special treatment at some places if you can speak few words.
And we are obsessive about the accent, if our company sends us for a 7 days US assignment, we capture accent, and keep that for years. We capture real accent, not the tongue bifurcating fake accent.
Not pervert but sexually annoying!
Sex has been a taboo here for long. Most of the Indians get sex only when they get married, and thanks to the poor gender ratio, many of them are waiting to get married. So if you are a white woman, and you posted on some travel forum and social media, that you need company, or you need travel buddy here, I assure you, you will feel special with 1*** friend requests, 3**** personal messages and 2*** emails.
That does not show we are perverted, I don't know how do you feel, but we are not perverted. We respect a woman! we worship them as a goddess! (as an exception sometimes we kill them in the womb)
We respect people based on age, sex, economic status, and ethnicity!
Yes, we teach our children to respect elders even if they are perverts.
Yes, we teach our children to respect based on sex, even if they do not deserve respect.
Yes, we respect based on skin color, go to a restaurant and you will see how respect changes with your skin color. White and fair is better and privileged and would remain.
We work hard to avoid work!
Yes, you heard it right!
Most of the Indians work hard to get a government job, which pays much lower most of the time compared to the private sector (if you have the required skill). Then what do government job offers? It offers job security, even if you perform worse, you will keep getting your salary till the age of 60 years. do you think I am making this up? No, see this
We are narcissistic and get offended easily!
Did you know who invented the Atomic weapons? Who invented Aircraft? Who was pioneer in civil engineering? Who invented e-mail?
Don’t google for these answers, soon google search will show some of our ancient mythological character giving them credit for all these inventions. After all, google works on the ‘power of the majority’. So next time if some Indian argues you that we are/were much more technologically advanced than the western world, accept that with an open heart! You know we get offended easily and can ruin anyone’s social media and play-store ratings. Don’t believe me, see what we can do
We do everything for money!
Yes, Money is a big deal here. Indians tend to save money, which makes us recession-proof. We avoid spending on travel and leisure (Indians born after 1990 are the exception). We start our journey in a rented flat, work like hell, take a loan, buy 1BHK, after 10 years pay the loan back, take another loan, buy 2 BHK, after 20 years pay that back, Buy 3 BHK (as we have 3 kids by now), get retired with a sense of happiness that we have lived an awesome life.
Anyway, we are working hard to get rid of all these problems, You won’t have a complaint with generation next.