Hahaha, the people on the internet are so amusing! Granted, you'd find all kinds of people who'd take advantage of anonymity, such as White Supremacists, Angry Islams, Fundamentalist Religious, Abusive Anti-Theists, Sexists, and need I say, Racists. I've even witnessed aggressive battles between Indian surfers and Pakistani, did my best to resolve the battle, and then
there are those beautiful people from both sides who brought the "Stop Hate, Bring Love" propaganda and ended wars by embracing each other -- not just on the net, but here in reality too. Sometimes they resolve it with poetry and art! It's an incredibly tear-jerking moment.
“This letter shows how much love there can be between the two countries if we could only learn to choose friendship over enmity and peace over war. We should tell people in India that we are willing to do so,” said Nosheen Sadiq, another Grammar School student.
But what's most amusing is the Western understanding of "Indians". While I've personally never received much racial spite from the awesome folks at America, Spain and other countries, every-time I say I'm an
Indian, a pure
Bharatiyan bred, most of the people from the west (with the exception of Europe) think that I either
wear a Turban, talk like the
stereotypical Indian store-owner guy in Simpsons, or
look like this! Yeah, it could be racial perception, but the source of misinformation is not the media itself, but the
lack of information in the first place. You might think it probably infuriates us, but don't worry, it doesn't: when I discussed the matter with my friends, they simply rolled their eyes and laughed. And when someone comes up and asks us, "So you're Indian? You mean, like that Kwik-e Mart owner in Simpsons?" My friends would giggle as I type in, "
Yes, like that Kwik-e Mart owner in Simpsons."
BTW, if you're wondering what I actually look like, well... somewhere along the lines of this guy:
