Helped me....

I always thought that I was a pretty liberal thinker as opposed to the conservative Indians. But its surprising what one can learn about themselves once they interact with people from different cultures. Having met and befriended people from different cultures, I began to understand a lot of things about myself as well as our culture. While some of what I saw didn't make me happy, some made me prouder then I had been before.
However, I saw that the Non-Indians were quick to find faults with us, and adorn their facebook profiles with not-so flattering status messages, ensuring a discussion where they would pull out each and every stereotype about India possible. Did it anger me? Ofcouse it did. This was a country where some tried to loot them, and some made them uncomfertable, but this was also a country which welcomed them with open arms, where people went out of their way to be hospitable, where their culture was understood and adopted and where they were allowed to be themselves. Despite this, they could only see the creepy Indian men, or the incomparable education system.
This coming from people whose county sponsored our neighbour with "foreign aid" to wipe us out, and pretended to be our allies and bothered about our welfare. A country which secretly fears us, envies our economic growth and places spies in our intelligence systems.
It annoys me when our own country people put such people on a pedestal because of their skin colour. They cheer and applaud a black president and consider his colour to be his strength, but want to change their own skin colour. They allow the "outsiders" to enter clubs without any entry fee, have specially reserved tables and places but won't allow their own countrymen in.
If we don't stand up against this, nobody else will. And accepting this behaviour is agreeing with them.