How about the sheer rudeness and arrogance of indian national abroad and home. Those I have have met who generally are the nouveau riche or rising Indian middle class tourists and migrant white collar workers ('IT' usually) are so incredibly ignorant, arrogant and rude it is impossible to imgaine that they and my parents who migrated abroad some 50 years ago share the same heritage. I was in a high class department store in Kuala Lumpur one day and this Indian woman strode in with her 2 kids and demanded to see several shoes giving the poor saleswoman the run-around. Not satisfied wih the brand name products she threw the shoes on the floor walked off, leaving no doubt of her her sneering contempt for the poor salesperson. I watched all this aghast, but unsurprised.
And what about that almost unique and strange Indian preoccupation with skin colour. Race and racism is about skin colour and to privilge fairness of skin in the way that 'Indian' nationals seems symptomatic aof some deep underlying and profoundly unexamined malaise. Its really really sick - its as if they are aspiring to be 'white' or aryan like the Nazis. Really shameful considering Indias colonial history.
