Jan 14, 2010

Why are we crazy about anything that is foreign?

Why do we like anything that is of foreign. It can be called
inferiority complex.I don't remember to how many people I might have
told that my brother is a very high official in IBM in USA or my niece
or nephew who live in US know swimming.Once I met an elderly couple at
their Kothi at Royal city of Jagraon.They are NRI and had come from
Barmigham UK.I boasted that I also have a friend in London little
knowing that he lives at some other place in UK.Long ago I was
probably unmarried and was sitting in a bus in NOIDA.A slightly plump
girl(NRI from UK) was on a front seat.She took out some toffee and
asked her father to give it to me on the seat behind them.I told to
several people that I had tasted an imported toffee.If a person would
own a broom made in UK,she might tell it to 20 people.It might be an
exageration but if you shake hand with some villager after coming from
UK he might not wash it for some time.Why do I forget the words of
Gurbani that say 'Naal iane dosti batahoo siuon neh Pani ander leek
jion tis da thao na theoh?'Silly me I take so much pride in telling my
students that I have a friend called such and such who has converted
to Sikhi or a person who is of Holland and ties a turban.Little do we
know about the difficulties that are faced by Punjabis'in London or
Australia.