The way you are looking at racial profiling is obtuse!! Racial profiling like most other things is a two way street. Indians can racially profile Westerners with the same fervor as Westerners do. The trouble is India/Indians are too busy bickering amongst themselves to be a united group. Fact is Northwest is an American airline and its plane is American airspace subject to American laws. Turn out most Indians either don't care about this fact or chose to ignore it. The reason is partly also because there isn't a good choice of an Indian carrier - which Indian carrier are they going to use - the piece of crap usually referred to as Air India ? And so it does become a one-way street. If India had its own fleet of carriers and another such incident happened on an Indian carrier where some Americans were detained you can be rest assured that after the brouhaha died down in the American press there would be no detention of Indians aboard any American flight for a long while! But no - how can that happen - we as Indians are too busy fighting amongst ourselves - do we disinvest/privatise Air India - do we not? How many decision reversals in the past 10 years on this ???
