Just cos the English don't like the Welsh or the Scots does not mean that there is rampant rascism!! The English and the Irish have always been at loggerheards cos the Englsih have never taken kindly to the roman Catholic church.... The English and the Welsh compete for jobs in working class communities in Hartfordshire, Pudsey etc and hence that resentment.... Where is the issue of rascism Sandeep??
I think you are mixing two things... The Aussies have been badly behaved..true, very true...but the Indians have given it back to Symonds in equal measure...that stays on the ground between the players.... Subjecting Symonds to monkey chants by the crowd is something that we should not be proud of!! It is something that needs to be frowned upon and nipped in the bud cos it may take a more ugly form later on.... Next time, there would be banners and posters showing a monkey like creature with the name of the player written on it....It might just be the start of some ugly caricatures....
Whether Symonds invited these taunts or slurs due to his skin color or due to his appearance aka hairdo is open to conjecture... But what is not open to conjecture is that the behaviour of the crowd at Vadodara was objectionable and downright insulting.... It is the same as when the Nagpur crowd had subjected Vinod Kambli to slurs and an allusion to his skin color by calling him "Kalia".... Very very unfortunate.....
