A couple of days ago I was told, you might follow rules, but we are Indians and we Indians never follow rules. This is a statement that never fails to annoy the hell out of me when I hear it and for some reason I seem to hear it quite often, usually from folks who should know better.
I will admit that there are folks who don’t follow rules and drive on the wrong side of the road and ultimately end up as road-kill. However to say that all Indian’s are that way is wrong. I know enough people who will go out of the way to follow the rules, will be at a place on time, behave like normal human beings that use the brains that god gave them. Some of them are Indians, some are Americans, some British etc etc. On the flip side I also know people who don’t think twice about driving drunk, jumping red lights and thinking that they are Gods gift to mankind. Guess what, some of those idiots are Indian’s, others are Americans, a few are Russian and a few British etc etc. India doesn’t have a monopoly on idiots.
The same people who make such statements are the ones, who when visiting other countries will follow their rules exactly. That proves that they can follow rules, they just don’t want to. I am sorry but if you are an idiot who believes that following rules somehow makes you weak or something then please do me a favor and don’t club me with you. It is not a matter of pride that you break rules. It is not something that makes you great. Actually, scratch that. It does make you great… a great moron.
You know what the worst part is? The fact that these people proudly make such statements in front of foreigners. It just shows that you don’t have any pride in your country and if that is the case then you are more than welcome to migrate to a different country. Goodbye and good riddance! Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. A person who is doesn’t take pride in his country, his people is not someone I want around me. However we do need to be careful that we don’t become so proud of ourselves that we go to the other extreme where we think that we are the only people who can do anything correctly. That is what starts wars and is the cause of a major part of the world problems right now.
I am proud of being an Indian, that doesn’t make me blind to our faults. But the only way we can ever think of fixing these faults is if we first admit that there is an issue and start working on it. Making our faults a matter of pride is one of the most idiotic moves that I can think of and it will cause no end of trouble.
Before you complain about folks jumping red lights or driving on the wrong side of the road, ask yourself a question. Do I do this? If your answer is yes then you have no right to complain about others doing exactly the same thing as what you do. All we need to improve things is for each person to look at themselves and stop taking the easy way out. If even a fraction of people start doing this then improvements will be obvious and slowly over a period of time others will follow as well. If nothing else you will be a good role model for the next generation coming up.
Well this is all for now. I am done with my rant and will go back to trying to fix my computer.
– Suramya
