A mother of two, based out of a small town in Punjab, is in a dilemma over sending one of her kids to Australia for the want of better education, healthy lifestyle and bright future for entire family, but realizes the ill events occurring down-under. Now that is what one would call an Australian Syndrome, where on one end of the spectrum, you’ll find triumph waiting in a land of opportunities, but on the other end are opportunistic individuals, ready to cause wrath on influx the way they see moral or rather immoral.
What has been happening in Australia is unfriendly to say the least. From the sledging on cricket grounds to beatings on road-lanes, the journey has been tough for Indian counterparts. One needs to look into the gravity of the situation in an inclusive manner, than exclusive. True, not every Australian can be tagged as inhospitable, but then not every Indian is stealing someone’s job or living a life in non-conformance to Australian values.
What makes Indians so vulnerable? Why has there been a spate of incidents in recent past? Well, if we introspect rationally, we’ll realize it is the cultural difference that makes so. Australia, to my understanding can be symbolic to a bowl full with rich ingredients mixed together, but does that mean that this bowl will necessarily serve a delicious meal? Well, you know the answer. Australians have always been very accommodating, but just one characteristic doesn’t define the entire personality, even of a human. In this highly complex world, we should rather understand the role of every variable than focus on one particular parameter in order to survive as one amongst the fittest. But the subtle quandary that exists within us either living in a kangaroo land, or as a matter of fact, in any place in world except India. How would existing members of a home feel if a new entrant, though physically living with them, is recluse in every other sense? Would you still call it a ‘home’? Same analogy gets applied to Australia, who as accepting as they are, may want to break the ice and want Indians to live the way they live, be friendly, learn the social lingo, and adapt to the locale customary schemes. But it’s us who remain oblivion to the insistence!!! Now, is that so hard? If it is, next time stop staring at a foreign couple lip-locking in the middle of an Indian bazaar, calling it highly ‘disgusting’ and ‘unacceptable’!!!
You need two hands to clap, but one to slap. Slapping, so far, we’ve been on the receiving side, what is needed now is to reverberate the noise from here back to them, if the series of events is to continue. If they are shameless, we need to give up the shackles of quietness, and reciprocate our esteemed partners in full favor. In fact, since immemorial times, when has any Indian not given his partner his worth due!!!For every unaided Indian killed down-under, we should kill a couple of innocent Aussies domestically, and promise Australia about thorough investigation underway, as they do!!! Only then they would realize what it feels to lose a family member thousands of miles away. An injury on other’s body may cause remorse to the guilty, but only a wound on his own body can cause him the real pain.
Through this article, I would say no one individual is responsible for suffering, but it requires just one individual’s courage to dictate terms to rectify thing in order out of chaos. So Indian government, its emigrant citizens, the Australian government and its citizens, should act as an Individual ready to put the things in right perspective!!!
