[ClearCase_guy]

He notes that it is important to recognize the family is Indian, and he is American-Indian.

I stopped there. Seems like he's the A-hole because he thinks that stuff matters.

[logi_cal869]

How?

[Dr. Sivana]

I stopped there. Seems like he's the A-hole because he thinks that stuff matters.

You shouldn't have stopped, that becomes pertinent in a good way. He chastised the woman in Hindi as her children were a poor reflection on people like him as well. He was most certainly NOT seeking special privileges.

We need a little more of this kind of push back when it is called for.

When I was younger, I went with a brilliant polyglot friend to a middle eastern restaurant. He was Lebanese-Irish by ethnic heritage, so he knew both Gaelic and four different flavors of Arabic.

The restaurant had all sorts of printed Arabic writing on the walls. I kept on asking him what it said. He quietly stated, "Its Koran." I stupidly did NOT take the hint, " and kept at it, "I know but what does it say?"

Eventually, the man behind the counter, as we were paying our bill, suggested that my friend didn't really know Arabic. This set him off, he shouted at them in Arabic "I speak what I want, and when I want, and I will not speak for worms like you."

Afterwards, he told me that he did not want to speak Arabic because his accent would reveal where he had been in Lebanon (he had been VP of the Catholic University of Lebanon), and that could be problematic. Plus, they had the audacity to charge extra for the pita bread and the portion sizes were insufficient. He has since passed away, and the world is worse for it.

[Hot Tabasco]

Seems like he's the A-hole because he thinks that stuff matters.

I read the article and it's clear that he is an "India" indian

It does because the family was India indians too......

[ealgeone]

From what I’ve seen in public Indian families don’t control their kids too much.

[the OlLine Rebel]

No no. Although it actually muddies things.

See, it’s OK for him to be upset because he’s feather Indian (glad he didn’t say that stupid “NA”).

BUT, the real Indians can be perfectly upset that anyone chastised them.

If one of them was white, then automatically that party would be in the wrong.

[bert]

Last Friday, Indians attacked my computer from afar and I am still in the reprocess of putting it all back together after a clean to bare metal Windows reinstall to assure the Indian presence is gone. Somehow, they gained complete access to my Pay Pall account and then to my computer

Indians are a world problem

[RinaseaofDs]

Seriously? How much experience do you have working with them? Entitled and rude is the general rule unfortunately. I watched a 60+ year old Indian woman just cut the security line in front of a Hawaiian sous-chef I was chatting with.

We both stopped and looked at her. She looked at us, then looked forward.

This is to be expected of a country where a significant portion of the population are considered non-people.

I find it amazing that after all the apartheid garbage, India gets a pass for the cultural of human rights violations, and in fact they get a fast track to US citizenship.

Horrible.

[LizzieD]

He probably should have written “Indian-American”, as he shares the trouble-makering child’s Indian heritage and felt more qualified to chastise the mom and kid. If he were actually American Indian, it would be irrelevant.