Is Australia important for India?
By tarachand
@tarachand (3895)
India
September 27, 2009 8:23am CST
A few days ago, an agency rang me up and invited me to take part in a telephonic survey on the recent spate of racial attacks on Indians in Australia.
In my opinion, Australia is of little importance to India, except that when it comes to global bodies like the UN etc., where generally it has always voted against India.
I think the Austrailans need Indians and the money that they bring in more than Indians do, and said as much to the surveyor. Just look at the way their cricketers flock to India for the Indian money that they earn
India is a growing economy and Indians after the Chinese are some of the largest spenders today, maybe the Australians and other nations feel threatened by the slow and steady increase of the Indins growing economic power.
Indian's are strong in fields that require a lot of logic, are generally hard workers and willing to do a job at a lower wage as compared to the local people, and that must definitely hurt. Instead of tightening their act and hlping their own nation grow by actally putting in the amount of work that they are paid for, maybe the locals have started targeting Indians.....
My personal experince with Australians as a journalist, as a traveller has been mostly bad, with the first thing that comes to mind the moment I am asked about Australians is 'Rude people who lack sportsmanship and are bad losers'.
I have experienced rudnesss and racism from Australians often, this includes within India too, where the Aussies are actually visitors. Probably, if I were to behave in a similar manner with an Australian in his/her own country, I'd be lynched, but then I felt that since the Australians were guests to my country, respect for the guest, hospitality should take precedence over ego, I just let it go.
Do we really need to give Australia the kind of importnace that we do? There are other countries that can offer similar educational facilities at the same or lower price, with stronger anti racial laws and local attitudes, is what I feel.
My final take to the surveyor was that Indians students should ban Australian education and look elsewhere, the Indian government should reduce and ultimately braek off all economic activity - maybe over 10-20 years with that country, Indian trade should gradually severe all ties with Australian companies - where their money is more welcome and they are treatd as guests, humans and peers should be.
We don't really need the Australians, they need us .......
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@earncommunity (1183)
• India
27 Sep 09
Thats totally correct. Australia has only a bit more than half the population of kerala which is one of the smallest state in india. We really dont need that market for our survival, But Survial of autstralia is depended on countries like china and india which have huge markets. Even the value of AUD is very much correlated to the Chinese stock market these days. Lets hope the ministers of the kangaroo land will start thinking sensibly and do some thing about the racial abuse on Indians.
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@skysuccess (8858)
• Singapore
3 Jan 10
tarachand,
I feel that there are some "fallacies" here that I have to disagree with you on a few points. Please hear me out here.
1. I do not agree that any country today is self reliant or self independent as far as staying economically viable. I think you need to agree that if India does not allow foreigners' outsourcing, I think your country will be dealing with high unemployment which can set a chain of events for the economy in your country.
2. It may be a fact that Indians may be industrious but I doubt on the willingness to work on a lower wage scale. I think there is some misconception here as your people are working on wages which are "affordable" to other countries' corporations and conglomerations.
3. With the above well established and your people economically viable, we arrive at a situation where there will be demands for the supplies the country and the world has to offer. Do you think any of your country men will have the means to be spenders when they are mostly unemployed? Would your country's economy be vibrant when your country's resources do not have a demand or are not being purchased or consumed?
4. Why do you think your people would want to consider Australia for studies and academic pursuits if their degree is not recognized internationally including your country? Would you want to send your children to overseas if the schools are no better than the ones at home? I think you are not thinking here, when schools is Australia are becoming more affordable and offer degrees which are equivalent to Europe and USA universities.
5. Would your country want anything Australia produces if they are not found reliable, high quality or most of all, value for money?
I think we need to remember that for every cause there is always a reason behind it. Yes, there will always be oppressors in every victimized situations, however, if there are times where incidents are just begging to happen. I am sure you are aware what I talking about, where people just cannot stay on the low profile of things. It takes 2 to clap, so we need to remember that there is always a catalyst of things in every situation. Rudeness is rampant and present in every people irregardless of cultures, customs or race - so don't think any less of your country men when they are overseas.