The hit that India's reputation has taken in the last decade is staggering

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Mrwhale33@reddit

As an economist, you’re closest to being right. Immigration is complicated but OP is genuinely not correct.

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polarpolarpolar@reddit

As an economist, what is your actual job?

I know so many people with economics degrees, not one of them is doing actual “economics”, which I believe to be dictating economic policy for an institution like the Fed.

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Mrwhale33@reddit

I do appreciate you asking, if you have any questions about my work/the industry, I’m happy to answer!

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polarpolarpolar@reddit

I guess I wonder what economists actually contribute to the world, if they aren’t part of the decision making process.

It feels a bit to me like being a sportswriter - except for entertainment value, unless you are part of the coaching staff or employed by the franchise to inform decisions, where does the value come from?

Like the panthers aren’t asking the myriad of sports bloggers how they should line up on defense, same as the fed isn’t really asking around for advice outside of their own analysts. And I don’t think it’s entertainment value like sports.

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Mrwhale33@reddit

Well economists can do that, but an economist, by definition, is a professional who studies the economy. I don’t know why you think they have to be in charge of it, do you think biologists are in charge of everyone’s human bodies? Or do they study them?

But I do work as an economic policy analyst right now for a large firm and have previously worked in economic development for both urban and rural areas.

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Coakis@reddit

But that's no reason to shit on your adopted country. That's just despair/worry that your home country is in a bad way, and not accepting it.

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Tylos_Of_Attica@reddit

And do what? Leave all the shitting to the locals?! I have stagnant wage complaints and anti-goverment criticisms that need to be comisserated.

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StanIsHorizontal@reddit

It’s money. Why is that so complicated? Imagine you wanted to work in an industry and the only place with high paying jobs in that industry was Saudi Arabia. Are you supposed to just fall in love with every part of Saudi Arabia just because you have to be there for work?

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MrBingly@reddit

If I moved to Saudi Arabia for work I would be sure to shut the fuck up about things I don't like in the country because I'm self-aware enough to know that I'm a guest.

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CallidusNomine@reddit

Pick a different industry?

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airfryerfuntime@reddit

No, usually they want to keep their culture, even the bad parts, while taking advantage of the benefits of western life. They think they can have both, but end up just ruining things because the two cultures aren't really compatible.

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Sethleoric@reddit

And government and geopolitics you can love your home and your culture and wish you'd stay there but you're terrified a certain someone is going to bomb you one of these days or your politicians do something insane and re2rded.

T. Fucked off to another cunt myself.

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Any-Faithlessness397@reddit

Loving the home country and shitting on the one which is keeping you alive is different than whatever you wrote.

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BilleyBong@reddit

We don't like nuance around here pal

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poopcockshit@reddit

Selfishness? They’ll fit right in.

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Any-Faithlessness397@reddit

Thanks for mentioning india otherwise it's pretty well known that most 3rd world Islamist countries have whiners like this.

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Gobbler_of_Cock@reddit

3rd world Islamist countries

You could've just said "Islamist countries"

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noroisong@reddit

you could’ve just said “countries” to be honest

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imbogey@reddit

Sweden 3rd world country?

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Mesarthim1349@reddit

Well no, but also yes

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schmitzel88@reddit

It's on its way

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MonsieurVirgule@reddit

Technicaly yes, in the OG meaning.

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Kiwi_Doodle@reddit

yep, neutral during the cold war = 3rd World.

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Ketjapanus_2@reddit

There are plenty of rich Islamist countries, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Sweden just to name a few

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random_internet_guy_@reddit

Sweden 😩

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FalconRelevant@reddit

UK?

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power899@reddit

You're forgetting about Europe 😉

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Any-Faithlessness397@reddit

Lmao

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darthicerzoso@reddit

I think that any country that has a fair number of people living abroad has people like this. I'm Portuguese and when I was in the UK I worked with this one Portuguese guy that wouldn't shut up about how Portugal is so much better, to the point that the guy that worked the most directly with him had this meltdown where he was constantly saying stuff like "if it's so much better just go back, just leave mate. What are you doing here then?"

Italian are also stereotypically known for being like this. I did find them more irritating tbh, like nothing is ever good for them. You can't have spaghetti with anything that they don't agree with, everything is their culture.

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Jellylegs_19@reddit

Difference is western countries actually bomb those countries. Then open their door to the immigrants. Then start complaining about it.

As far as I know, India doesn't have any war and isn't being bombed.

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Tour-Sure@reddit

On the contrary here in the UK Indians integrate way better than people from Islamist countries. Apparently that's not the case in Canada though

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basilisk_boi2@reddit

Post hand

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Tour-Sure@reddit

🥀

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bremsspuren@reddit

I live in Germany and assumed the meme was about Turks.

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aDistractedDisaster@reddit

The power of money.

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Charming_Mission7695@reddit

Indians had a good stereotype before those street food videos started going viral. What a shame.

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xxwarlorddarkdoomxx@reddit

Remember when Apu was considered the offensive Indian stereotype?

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RipDove@reddit

Man was a business owner, had several degrees, and often took part in the community. Maybe my memory is hazy but I also don't recall any comments in the show about him over charging. He also made efforts to know everyone in town by name.

Like what, he was a brown guy who talked funny and that was offensive?

What were people expecting in a depiction of a first generation immigrant?

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drak0ni@reddit

He sold expired food, had an incredibly high number of kids, and ran a convince store. These are all stereotypes for Indian people. Just because he was a good person doesn’t mean he wasn’t a racial stereotype.

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ExpertSpace@reddit

But the thing is, every single character on the simpsons was a stereotype. No matter their colour.

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SOF_cosplayer@reddit

Meanwhile no one bats an eye on Cletus being low IQ, having lots of inbred kids, incestuous relationship, and living in a shack in the backwoods. Or comic book guy being the redditor stereotype to the T.

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xxwarlorddarkdoomxx@reddit

I’d argue the difference is Cletus is only one very many white (or technically yellow, bite me) characters in the show, while Apu was the only prominent Indian/South Asian character

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rividz@reddit

Yes, because Springfield is Anywhere, USA and Apu is an immigrant that naturalizes. The Simpsons do not take place in South Asia.

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UnevenContainer@reddit

because browns cant fend for themselves, duh

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Alexander_Russo@reddit

If the racial stereotype is depicted as a good person I say take the win before we give you the alternative to really cry about. Apu actually did a lot to give me a positive opinion of Indian people when I was a kid, it took learning more about real ones to sour my perspective.

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The_Nude_Mocracy@reddit

It's like when everyone got offended about Speedy Gonzales on behalf of Mexicans. It's a cartoon, it's supposed to be a caricature! Next they'll get offended because Homer is American and fat

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TheDevilsAdvokaat@reddit

I've actually people on reddit who said they were mexican and they were proud of speedy.

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schmitzel88@reddit

That's not just reddit, this is nearly universally true. They petitioned enough that they were able to get him back on the air after some (white) execs pulled the show for being a stereotype.

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calmdownmyguy@reddit

I thought speedy went of the air in like 1995. I don't think woke had anything to do with it.

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schmitzel88@reddit

It was taken off the air in 1999 when cartoon network bought the rights to it. A spokesperson said it was taken off the air due to being a racial stereotype. In 2002 a Mexican advocacy group successfully petitioned to get it back on the air.

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TheDevilsAdvokaat@reddit

Didn;t know this either. TIL!

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TheDevilsAdvokaat@reddit

Didn't know that. TIL !

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Mcc457@reddit

I'm Mexican and I love speedy, oh wait no I'm not, or am I?

I don't disagree with you, I've met Mexican people in real life that like speedy but saying you've "met people on Reddit" is INSANE

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TheDevilsAdvokaat@reddit

I wouldn't say it's insane, but yeah It's certainly not a certainty.

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FriedFreya@reddit

1) omg the original commenter u replied to forgot to include the word “met” to begin with, which is totally sending me lol.
2) “meeting people on the internet” (or reddit) is how i describe my gaming buddies so idk wth ur on about saying meeting ppl online is insane lol. this statements doesn’t entail we ^(or anyone? who uses the same phrasing) have face to face contact with said online individuals, if that’s the conclusion you jumped to :3
3) have a great day :D

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Mcc457@reddit

that's the thing you can just lie on the Internet... I'm not talking about meeting people online like to hang out with I'm talking about trusting what people say in often very polarizing conversations. You can't verify someone is being legit over test and not on Reddit that's essentially anonymous. famous example and this is not uncommon:

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FriedFreya@reddit

fair, i tend to avoid spaces that have no purpose though. meeting folks for game or textual RP is normal, connecting online is one of the only outlets the socially inept (hi) are able to actually converse with other like-minds. lie, lie all day. sure. not like i’m giving you my money or anything 😭 hell. there could be more lying tbh. i’ve heard (read, rather) kids say “im a minor” ^(mostly to drown out arguments when they’re losing/wrong 😩) and it’s like YOOO i couldn’t have ever imagined saying anything like that in the year 2013 lol. stranger danger.

in this ai era, it’s hard to know if anything is real anymore. i’m happy to say the few folk i’ve made really good friends with are really cool :> we all met through shared interests like games and anime haha. i’m sure the OC is the same way. it’s hard to hold up a huge farce for 5 years in your late teens / early 20s like we are lol. it’s nice to have a space to talk about things with people who relate to you! and that’s just not something someone like me can get in the USA deep south haha!

if it weren’t for the internet, i’d still be ignorant about Russia because all the propaganda, lol. i met my best friend (Russian) through a game called Sky, and he and i have learned that we have very similar economic situations. only his is icy-cold lmao. 1°C is a “warmer” day apparently, jeez. we call frequently and will chat for hours. my days would be just as cold and very lonely if it weren’t for him, tbh.
but yes! anyone can say anything online :3c like, i’m a one-eyed one-horned flying purple people eater, sure why not 😂

also that screenshot will never not be funny lol

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sovereign666@reddit

main character syndrome

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sovereign666@reddit

They said "meeting people on reddit" which to me is very different from regular gaming buddies.

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FriedFreya@reddit

i’ve met gamer buddies on reddit through gaming subreddits, sorry if that wasn’t made clear :)

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sovereign666@reddit

then you are an exception to most other peoples experiences on reddit.

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FriedFreya@reddit

that’s fair to say as well :p

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Tripleberst@reddit

Homer is privileged. Privileged people aren't allowed to complain about stereotypes because privileged people can't be discriminated against. (This is what they actually think)

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lornlynx89@reddit

There's the episode with his coworker going insane because he sees what Homer has while he had to work hard for everything.

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airfryerfuntime@reddit

You, you went to space?

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Tripleberst@reddit

Grimey

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lornlynx89@reddit

Good old Grimey like we used to call him.

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Guardiancomplex@reddit

Arguably one of the greatest episodes ever made. "Homer's Enemy".

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Endulos@reddit

I've never understood why Speedy Gonzales is considered racist.

The other characters surrounding him? Sure you could make that argument (E.g Slow Poke Gonzales), but not Speedy himself.

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Laruae@reddit

Its because Speedy is supposed to be an inversion of "Typical Mexicans".

But he's also just a good character so everyone likes him.

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Original_Historian90@reddit

A trans racist. You really see it all on the Internet huh

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Alexander_Russo@reddit

Black, trans, neurodivergent, queer.

I have all the gamer-word passes.

I use my powers for evil.

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leaderofstars@reddit

I just combine words together that dont sound racist until you think about it

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Roadkillgoblin_2@reddit

“Anon discovers written language”

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leaderofstars@reddit

Yeah I had to suffer traumatic brain injury but I finally understood it

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Alexander_Russo@reddit

Ah, an aristocrat.

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Altruistic-Arm137@reddit

"Ah, yes. The niggaciator." -General Grievous

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Altruistic-Arm137@reddit

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Affectionate-Pea-901@reddit

“Erm maybe take the slightly offensive misrepresentation of your entire race before we go mask off” like what the fuck are you on

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Alexander_Russo@reddit

What am I on? Collective consciousness, apparently.
630 goddamn upvotes I've never said anything people have agreed with this much in my life.

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puff_of_fluff@reddit

Lmfao what the fuck dude

I’m not a fan of cancelling Apu either but that opening sentence is fucking WILD.

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StrongLikeBull3@reddit

“…before we give you the alternative to really cry about.” Shut up you fucking cornball.

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thereoncewasahat@reddit

It's a harsh wake up call when you grow up in a homogenous population supplied with with overly positive propaganda about certain groups you've never met in person; only to finally start interacting with them and realising the 'wrong' opinion was correct so along.

Millenials were particularly vulnerable to this as we didn't have ready internet access in the early days.

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alitayy@reddit

Yeah but nobody was saying it’s not a stereotype. The person you’re responding to just thinks that it’s not really that offensive.

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LeshyIRL@reddit

...Because it's not

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alitayy@reddit

I agree

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drak0ni@reddit

Nah, they edited that comment to imply that, the last line wasn’t originally there

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RipDove@reddit

Are you redacted? You can see if a comment has been edited on Reddit, it's literally tagged as "* edited"

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schmitzel88@reddit

Several years ago some white executives tried to pull speedy gonzales from the air because he was a stereotype. In response, tons of Mexicans petitioned and got upset because it turns out Mexican people fucking love speedy gonzales and consider him to be a positive representation, despite being a stereotype.

Everyone on the Simpsons is a stereotype of something. Apu is at least a good dude and is shown more positively than many characters on the show.

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tarodar@reddit

If I recall correctly the fact he was voiced by a white man had a lot to do with it seen as racist.

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RipDove@reddit

I'll give you the bit about the extreme number of kids. But I go to immigrant-owned groceries pretty often and a good number will sell expired food. I don't think that's an Indian specific stereotype so much as a stereotype of any place that isn't a huge chain.

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Consistent-Throat130@reddit

Considering I've had multiple instances of the fucking Krogers selling expired stuff...

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Live_Carpenter_1262@reddit

I felt the expired sausage was more of a jab at shabbily managed 7/11s than a jab at Indian people

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hypexeled@reddit

is that really a stereotype though? When i was a kid all i saw was a store owner being shady to make a profit and someone who got unlucky with the multiple kids.

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Ardalev@reddit

Wait, those were the stereotypes people were offended by?

I thought he got canned because of his name. Apu -> A poo.

Everything else is kinda meaningless, every other character in the show is a stereotype in one way or another.

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thoughtlow@reddit

Apu is a common nickname in some regions of india

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RipDove@reddit

Dikshit

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BaronVonWeeb@reddit

Tbh, the expired food one isn’t even unique to Indians. My manager at work used to work at a store as a manager and he told me that the only product that has to be thrown out right as it expires is dairy, with the rest it’s still good for a week or so. For context, he is Russian.

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skaliton@reddit

to be fair basically every character in the simpsons is a stereotype

cleetus is basically alabama

the police are collectively completely worthless and just sit around

willie's accent is so thick that there is an entire episode that's remembered solely for him speaking in a scene that isn't relevant to the plot at all

I can go on, but as far as stereotypes go he is probably on the better half (I mean it isn't like he runs a scam call center and routinely asks for 'abble' gift cards while trying to get every female character to 'show bob and vagene'

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iz-Moff@reddit

had an incredibly high number of kids

I'm pretty sure he had no kids at the time when Simpsons were great. I don't remember it off the top of my head, but i believe he only meets his wife somewhere around season 8 or so, and as far as i'm concerned, season 9 was the last good one.

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Vast-Combination4046@reddit

Had 8 kids due to fertility treatments gone awry

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DeliriumRostelo@reddit

Everyone has negatives but compared to cletus homer half the time or comic book guy thats fine

Also the kid thing isnt that bad - comparatively homers got way less and hes strangling bart

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CaseroRubical@reddit

there was also a joke about apu marrying a child before going to America

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Dammit_Meg@reddit

He only had eight kids though because everyone was slipping his wife fertility pills. They were octuplets, it's not like he wouldn't stop having kids, they only had one batch. It just happened to be eight LOL

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duva_@reddit

Had an arranged marriage with a child

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ras2703@reddit

Literally named a poo

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anonareyouokay@reddit

He cheated on his wife, that's the only negative story line with Apu.

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bremsspuren@reddit

Apu & family make up most of the list of Springfield residents you wouldn't actually mind having as neighbours IRL.

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randomstuff063@reddit

This year is an outright lie, and you know it, and it can be proven it’s a lie because of the rest of the comment section.

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Fern-ando@reddit

Apu accent isn't even that thick compared to phone scammers.

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Bay1Bri@reddit

I also don't recall any comments in the show about him over charging.

It wasn't a huge point, but he was depicted as doing so.

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wirelesswizard64@reddit

He wasn't overcharging, but he was occasionally dishonest about the quality of the products sold and the sanitary conditions of said items... such as blowing most of the floor lint off a dropped hot dog before putting it back on the rack, a secret kept between just himself and smashed hat.

It wasn't because of his race, Apu and the Kwik E Mart just represented sketchy convenience stores like Mr Krabs represented profit-obsessed restaurant owners (in a town full of cartoonishly flawed characters at that). There were plenty of other sketchy salesmen and business owners of all races (especially Homer) who violated code just as if not more frequently than he did.

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Dammit_Meg@reddit

He 100% was over charging, see my earlier comment

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Dammit_Meg@reddit

He definitely overcharged the shit out of people. There is a line in one of the earlier seasons that goes something like this. I think it was the episode where they are essentially the Beatles. But I could be wrong on that. Regardless..

Apu: it's not much, but it's good. Honest work.

Customer: excuse me, how much for this card of milk?

Apu: $12.

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darthicerzoso@reddit

I never understood what was the play with those Indian communities. Like the Simpson is a show that pokes fun of everyone and anyone, no group or culture is portrayed in a positive light, if they are it's because it's funny in the context of the episode. Anything and everything is seen through a lens of sarcasm. And these people thought that the Indian family of this show must be portrayed in a positive only light, they wouldn't accept that they stopped being portrayed, like wtf.

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ChimeraYawning@reddit

Why are stereotypes considered bad?

Sry not american

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anonareyouokay@reddit

Because most people want to be voted as individuals and not as their attributes.

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LazarusPizza@reddit

They're bad when they portray the entire group in a negative light, and present what might be an esge case as if it's the norm.

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Alsimni@reddit

They aren't innately bad, just the people that take them as absolute truth about everyone in that group. Having stereotypes color your expectations of someone is fine as long as you're open-minded enough to accept that any particular individual you interact with could be an exception to any or all of them.

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anonareyouokay@reddit

I think the campaign to cancel Apu was silly. Imagine if people actually campaigned for things that mattered.

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NuclearLunchDectcted@reddit

I thought that was because the voice actor was white.

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StanIsHorizontal@reddit

Yeah people really miss this part, the “controversy” was just one guy saying “hey it’s weird that there’s a white guy just doing a bad impression of my uncle on the most popular show on TV”

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Smooth_Maul@reddit

Apu, why do you talk like that man?

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7jinni@reddit

Diversity is not inherently good.

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Fuzzy_Wheel_4565@reddit

Idiots will never comprehend this. The progressive mind is too guilt ridden to even entertain this notion

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darklightmatter@reddit

Huh? And what's your argument against it, segregation?

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7jinni@reddit

" 'You like pancakes'? WHY DO YOU HATE WAFFLES?!"

FoH

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echit2112@reddit

they weren't anticipating kitboga

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I9w0s@reddit

They really yanked him out completely, didn't they? LOL

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Drayenn@reddit

My biggest beef is that they wont assimilate. Theres tons of "vegetarian only" apartments which is a keyword for indians only or indian managers hiring only indians.

If i go live in another country, i wont be looking for the canadian community and live with them.. ill just try to fit in.

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Dear-Carrot-6369@reddit

How many Indians in the USA have you met that don’t speak English?

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Drayenn@reddit

i didnt talk about speaking english. Only that they try to live amongst thier own rather than assimilate with the rest of the country.

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JupiterTVrobot@reddit

It's easy to say you'll try to fit in and not look for a Canadian community. You can do that as a tourist and pat your back for it. But that's never true in practice for long term residents.

For instance in the middle east where I am, all western "expats" live in gated communities in condos and neighborhoods filled with their own. Every ethnic group everywhere does that.

Living in a foreign country away from your comfort zone can be lonely and depressing. "Assimilating", whatever that means, often feels fake and wannabe, nor does it help much. You'll be stuck in a limbo, neither here nor there.

Even if they change their name, speak English in your accent, change their religion, everything, they still can't change their skin color. And that's enough for you to see them as perpetual outsiders.

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zaplinaki@reddit

vegetarian only" apartments

Omigod if I have to deal with this bullshit even though I'm not in Indian anymore I swear I will file civil discrimination lawsuits or something.

I've had enough of this shit in Mumbai. I cannot be arsed to deal with it outside India.

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Drayenn@reddit

My understanding was that vegetarian only apartments were a codeword for indians only since you cant discriminate on race in Canada. Im surprised to hear its a thing in India too.

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zaplinaki@reddit

Yea it's a huge deal back home too. Its fucked honestly.

It's mostly done by upper caste hindus or Jains who are both 'pure vegetarian'

So they don't allow people to cook meat or eggs in their property. There are entire apartment complexes and housing societies in Mumbai that are 'veg only.' Usually they house Gujarati Jains or Jains in general or upper caste Hindus like Brahmins.

These groups generally do not consume any meat or eggs throughout their whole life and consuming meat or eggs is seen as a huge sin. You'll hear the words "dharm brasht" - religion ruined(?) or faith destroyed(?) if they even accidentally eat meat.

That's why they don't let people eat meat on their property BUT I was accepting of it in India

Motherfucker if they do this to me here I will go legal on their ass.

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flaspd@reddit

You mean muslims... They will want to change the country to be just like the country they fled from

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EddieHeadshot@reddit

I was at a GP (medical) office in the UK and an immigrant asked if the TV screens displaying information for everyone to be changed into HER language.

As if no one else mattered an we should be displaying everything in whatever she could read. At a free service, paid by UK taxpayers no less.

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heydoakickflip@reddit

You're upset that the woman wanted to be able to read medical information? Take a step back and think critically here. This woman is probably a newer immigrant to your country who is still learning your language. She is in a hospital seeking medical care, and you are upset that she is trying to recieve information about said care. Regardless of who she is or what language she speaks, her seeking MEDICAL ATTENTION, shouldn't bother you in the slightest.

For what it's worth, I've traveled internationally quite frequently, and British tourists are the biggest complainers and tantrum throwers when things aren't catered to them in English. Take that as you will.

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EddieHeadshot@reddit

No shes probably not. And they do have the leaflets in their language.

She was an entitled KAREN. THESE PEOPLE ARE THE TYPE THAT DONT INTEGRATE.

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anti-gerbil@reddit

Isn't that just regular karen behavior tho?

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EddieHeadshot@reddit

Yes. I did call her 'Karen' aswell. But the idea that a GP surgery would have the ability to do these pre made PowerPoint slides shows in every available language or seemly one just for her was the icing on the cake.

I mean India has 122 main languages and 22 official languages to start off with. Its just batshit crazy.

She drove off in a red BMW so assume she can afford the shittest Android phone at least and use google translate if its that much of a problem.

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SilliusS0ddus@reddit

that most definitely IS regular karen behaviour.

It could probably happen with European women too... except that a large part of them speaks english or as a Karen type would be embarrassed that they don't speak english well enough

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IamWatchingAoT@reddit

The thing with Europe is that a large part of the population has access to good disposable income and is highly educated which are often directly linked to "good civility." A European woman as a result is unlikely to be shameless enough to make such an unhinged request unless they are uneducated or on drugs (which isn't that rare tbh)

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SilliusS0ddus@reddit

There's definitely plenty of entitled annoying white ladies.

But as I said, part of them speaks english and part of them would be too embarassed to admit they don't

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Shaan_Don@reddit

For like 10 years I’ve been going to a barbershop ran by some Lebanese and Syrian guys and they usually have Arabic new channels on the tv, and for 10 years I’ve intently watched Arabic news there with 0 complaints lmao

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Dear-Carrot-6369@reddit

Ya Indias aren’t really like this. They usually like it in USA

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Substantial_Bet_1007@reddit

can confirm this as a turk who have iranian friends, both in iran and turkey, this "things" will vote the most leftist/anti islamic political party in there but most islamic/authorian party in their native country

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Live_Carpenter_1262@reddit

Really? Most Iranians I met HATE the Iranian government but then again I'm from America so maybe just different demographic.

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Substantial_Bet_1007@reddit

Same people in turkey too, but those haters are generally normal your usual everyday people the people i talk about are the ones helped the iraniarn sheria, helped erdogan to "conquer" etc.

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Econmajorhere@reddit

As an American lives abroad - it’s 100% financial and nothing more. Historically when immigrants came in they wanted not only the opportunities but also the lifestyle US offered. This worked until 2000s and particularly ended after 08 when wealth divide began to expand dramatically.

The Indians that came before accomplished a ton in US. Guys like Bose/Khosla were literally top tier even back in India, they excelled in US and appreciated what the country allowed them to accomplish. The immigrants that came after found themselves stuck working dead end jobs with min wage incomes. Hence the comparison of “it’s way better back home.”

From my limited time traveling there - India is a tough place to exist. Even when I was paying $4k/mo on an Airbnb in the coolest Mumbai neighborhood- you still cant escape the traffic, pollution, sheer amount of people and poverty. I can’t blame anyone trying to escape it. But US just doesn’t have the same opportunities it once did. Even back in 90s you could manage to upgrade your life with an average white collar job - now that’s practically impossible. Most Indians you meet are either driving uber or doctors/tech consultants (paid less than Americans).

What I foresee - US is kinda entering the endgame. Fed/economy is a bit stuck between inflation and growth. Cost of living is rising and now AI is coming for whatever it can. Then bring in the culture wars (Ray Dalio - changing world order). As US begins to slowdown, emerging markets could continue to grow and shift global capital. I’ll wager a lot of immigrants will decide to return home then.

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pinkwar@reddit

Nah. India has dug themselves into a hole. Skipping whole infrastructure to go straight to conquer IT is doomed to fail. You can't just skip roads, sanitation or law and order.

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hewhoreddits6@reddit

Reminds me of discussions from the mid 2010's about why India wasn't a global superpower like China was. Because China invested billions into their infrastructure!

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TearOpenTheVault@reddit

Roads

I swear to God people on this subreddit are dumber than a bag of rocks if they agree with someone claiming India doesn't have roads.

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pinkwar@reddit

90% of roads in India are dirt roads and the rest are not designed at all for the amount of traffic.

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Stazik57@reddit

I don’t get it. Do you really think they’re living in huts and dirt roads like the dark ages out there. I work in tech and went to southern India with my team (most of their tech industry is there) and other than the trash here and there and horrid traffic, it was much much more developed than I thought it would be. I didn’t even know India had indigenous electric car brands let alone the infrastructure for them. Or nuclear power plants. Granted I had no expectations

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Vichu0_0-V2@reddit

Let me guess bangalore?

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Stazik57@reddit

Nope. It was Chennai

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pinkwar@reddit

Yeah India is just tech hub cities. My bad.

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Lukababineux@reddit

Because before 2000s, Indians who immigrated to foreign countries were highly skilled cream of the crop in their sectors.

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the_cum_snatcher@reddit

What changed?

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power899@reddit

Nothing for the US. Canada however...

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Ronin_777@reddit

Indian people have been seen drinking fountain water at my local mall: https://x.com/yegwave/status/1891148971956945191 this is a luxury mall too, that fountain is full of coins, dirt, rust and god knows what else.

Canada is literally just importing the this world at this point. You know it’s gotten bad when even the progressive left leaning Canadians are getting fed up.

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OuchLOLcom@reddit

Whenever people say that travel makes people more liberal its almost always people who travel exclusively to the nice parts of Europe and maybe Japan/AUS. Almost everyone I know who has actually tried to live in a poor country comes back way more racist than when they left.

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hewhoreddits6@reddit

Nah people travel to poor countries for poverty tourism and come back talking about how awesome the people are "despite how little they have, literally they have NOTHING and are so happy" it's condescending af

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Cerenas@reddit

It's always the people that have very little experience/contact with other cultures that are the most racist.

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TearOpenTheVault@reddit

Classic r/Greentext moment where repeatedly verified scientific trends (like travel making you more liberal, because it exposes you to a broader range of people and lifestyles) being casually dismissed by someone obviously anecdotally agendaposting. and everyone nods like a moron.

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ReadThisIfYoureGay@reddit

Lol how many racist people from the US go to live in poor countries? Who is this "almost everyone I know"

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The_Third_Molar@reddit

Seriously who's upvoted that shit?

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NeevBunny@reddit

It's wild Canada allows the 4 people sharing one bed in shifts "Indian only" rental homes, they would be sued out of business so fast in America

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7jinni@reddit

It’s gotten so bad that I noticed even the progressive left leaning people are getting fed up.

Only because it's now happening within earshot of their own homes. All "progressives" — all, without exception — are NIMBYs.

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Amberlights101@reddit

As a Canadian, it’s rough. I want to be kind, but the TFW program is insane, we have literally brought in a bunch of those nasty street vendors you see online here. They’re massaging each others feet, clipping their toe nails, etc at a Dominos, Tim Hortons etc. I’m really trying to understand the whole feet thing? I worked in a warehouse where there was majority Indian, and some people went to Manitoba to “find other Indians”. Wrong Indian, and they were chased out. From the horses mouth, they said “we wanted to be with Indians, but they don’t want to be Indian. They’re scary”. Zero research and all flock mentality.

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imwrighthere@reddit

Went from creaming the crop to mass scamming the system

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Lukababineux@reddit

Immigration policies of countries and There's was a service introduced called "Donkey" or Donkey'ing

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TosiMias@reddit

My dad's been in big tech since the 90s. He was complaining about Indians having fake credentials, lying about their experience, not speaking English, and only hiring/promoting each other for as long as I can remember.

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Dear-Carrot-6369@reddit

Indian networking bias goes crazy in Tech. That being said, there are a bunch of smart Indians

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Squirrel_Bacon_69@reddit

Except for the English part, i've seen white people do this all of my life

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Ronin_777@reddit

Indian people have been seen drinking fountain water at my local mall https://x.com/yegwave/status/1891148971956945191 this is a luxury mall too, that fountain is full of coins, dirt, rust and god knows what else.

Canada is literally just importing the this world at this point. It’s gotten so bad that even the left leaning people in my family and social circles have started to talk badly of them.

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bremsspuren@reddit

That depends an awful lot on which foreign country you're talking about, tbh.

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MeaningAdmirable9022@reddit

turks and Indians fit this perfectly

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TheMorbidHobo@reddit

They are excluaively here for economic benefits.

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Glass-Juggernaut195@reddit

Yeah but even the ones who assimilate get called racial slurs, like Usha Vance.

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TheMorbidHobo@reddit

I get called racial slurs too. There will always be bad eggs.

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Daemon013@reddit

The word "native" is doing a fuckload of heavylifting here and it ripped its spleen apart.

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I9w0s@reddit

It's called low IQ and cognitive dissonance. Can confirm this as an Indian myself.

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harsh12062001@reddit

all the people calling u cuck and sepoy would kill someone to get a chance at foreign citizenship

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Kusha97@reddit

Sounds like projection there buddy.

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harsh12062001@reddit

i have looked into citizenship, but the amount of money it would take is immense, i recognize my limitation instead of acting insecure on reddit commenting "sepoy" and "cuck" like a chutiya aadmi

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zaplinaki@reddit

Your username just made me realize people born after 2001 are 25 years old now.

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Kusha97@reddit

I swear bro, the full birthdate. People are dozing themselves on the internet now, a 25 year old at that.

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Devil-Eater24@reddit

Tbf they were 17 when they created this account

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Lukababineux@reddit

It's simple foreigner gaze phenomenon, I have seen with many countries.

They really think by stopping Indians from making negative remarks they are saving the image lol.

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AayushS1008@reddit

Mil gaya gora validation Chutmarike ? And that too from green text incels lol

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darthicerzoso@reddit

I had this Indian neighbour and put kids played together a lot. He's just a normal dude to be honest, nothing crazy. He did feel the need to mention a lot that he was a Christian and not like those other Indians, that's something I found really weird almost as if he was a bit racist toward other Indians for a reason.

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zenkaiba@reddit

Its not low iq ur an idiot maybe thats why u think so. These guys are groomed into a particular culture just like everyone else. If anyone is put into a different scenario after a significant period of time they probably will feel comfortable especially if they didn't want to leave. These guys are there for money and qualify for life. If tomorrow india has clean air, enough wealth to give proper education to most and decent money to live a comfortable life they would all shift back asap!

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Grenyn@reddit

But it doesn't have clean air or enough wealth to improve. And if you go back to the OP, it quite literally is about Indians leaving India for better opportunities, while talking shit about the place they moved to and glazing India.

It doesn't make sense to say oh yeah but if India were actually better, then they'd move right back. That literally puts forth as the default that India is not better.

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zenkaiba@reddit

Its literally not about india being better. They know India isn't better, some of them will lie tho but the fact they dont move back shows the truth. Think of it as you getting a new job that pays 10x but all your colleagues treat you worse and u have no friends. You will bitch about it and say you're miserable, but would you leave the job? Probably not especially if the old job didn't even pay enough for you to survive. This is completely a situation of people bitching more than they actually are miserable. Human beings have always functioned like this. You never had a gf who constantly bitched about how terrible her friends were but then plan every single party and hang out with those girls everytime? No one wants to lose privileges they had before but most people also know how to compare pros and cons and for most indians they are taught from birth money is everything, no matter how bad your situation is if you can get more money its the better situation. I hope this made sense.

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Sauelsuesor729@reddit

How's the boot taste sepoy?

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pandoras_box101@reddit

lmao bro got absolutely destroyed in the replies. it's hilarious

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popular_tiger@reddit

Did he really? The only reply that got more likes than his was a racist one against Indians 💀

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Key_Winner_2701@reddit

Wrong sub . Have you tried r/cuckold . You will fit quite well there

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CarnageFe@reddit

Your inferior complexity disgusts me.

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I9w0s@reddit

This is a misdiagnosis. I am just sharing facts and experience as someone who has witnessed this for a long time. How am I showing signs of having an inferior complexity? And more importantly, why is it disgusting to you?

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neonmonkey97@reddit

Buddy if you had critical thinking to understand why, you wouldn’t have put your own comment. No one is gonna answer you. Find it out yourself.

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Head-Alarm6733@reddit

complexion

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Obese-Reddit-Mod@reddit

he's not wrong. You guys need to do better

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neonmonkey97@reddit

You accept biased takes by obvious self loather, if anyone that has to do better its you lmao, and obviously the sepoy needs to love themselves more

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7jinni@reddit

Re-read the comment.

inferior complexity

not

inferiority complex

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jsh_@reddit

lmfao you're not "one of the good ones" for having an inferiority complex

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I9w0s@reddit

This is a misdiagnosis. I do not have an inferiority complex. My comment does not support having a low-IQ, it simply states that there is a low-IQ problem at hand.

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mynotsoprecious@reddit

r/canconfirmiamindian

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docatwar@reddit

Lol

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Kusha97@reddit

Yoo, actually one in the wild r/canconfirmiamindian

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tid_burglar@reddit

insane cuck mentality

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toastedtomato@reddit

Fkin sepoy

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white_equatorial@reddit

Woah bro. 🇰🇷 is yet to "here".

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Flodge100@reddit

Sorry

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docatwar@reddit

Cuck

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RodrickJasperHeffley@reddit

it all started with pewdiepie. that piece of s hit normalized hate against india and indians online

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AlexMindset@reddit

Good

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toomuchradiation@reddit

Indians ruined India for me. As a kid read a lot about their myths, religion, philosophy. Imagined it as some spiritual country detached from material world.

After India got internet access all of it was shattered. D:

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Anonreddit96@reddit

It's the same as people shattering the myth of Hollywood once internet and social media became mainstream. Before all that people only know about America via hollywood and tv shows and they all imagined that's how they are and also how they all look, then social media became famous and everyone got exposed. The only ones pending are core asian people like japanese south koreana dn chinese , beleive me the work is not ready for the level of bullying these three countries so.

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Liang_Kresimir11@reddit

is nuance like poison to you

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Live_Carpenter_1262@reddit

Maybe generalizing a sprawling nation of 1.4 billion people into one stereotype is where you went wrong? You find good, bad, smart, stupid, kind, aloof, in-between people everywhere

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MrEvan312@reddit

“DO NOT RED🤖🤖M!”

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Sethleoric@reddit

I like to think it's a case of what's being exposed. Back then, most of what you saw of India was the "high class" or exotic shit, the rich people, the philosophers and mathematicians, etc. Etc.

It's like going to the U.S and expecting everyone to be like a Hollywood star, progressive thinking, glamour and shit. The American Dream. You know there were hobos and poor people, but they were in the shadows.

But now, what's being brought to the light are the methheads, the people who live like shit, the hicks and trailer park types, pedos, then times it by like eleven because literally 1/8th of all humanity lives there, the government is corrupt and incompetent, and a large portion of the population live in third world conditions.

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PurpleWoodpecker2830@reddit

This is what happens when you skip the toilet and go straight into the internet in the tech tree

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TrueGootsBerzook@reddit

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Guardiancomplex@reddit

I can hear it lmfao.

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airfryerfuntime@reddit

This is my favorite one of these.

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kolleden@reddit

WHY DID YOU REDEEM IT

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raider1v11@reddit

A god damn plus.

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Got_yayo@reddit

This fucking sent me

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Izbitoe_ebalo@reddit

India is doing that civ playthrough where you skip one of the early techs for as long as possible

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BeavMcloud@reddit

It's okay, they have the Ganges River natural wonder within their borders which adds +4 Faith and allows your Civ to skip the Plumbing tech indefinitely

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1ncorrect@reddit

Holy shit I want a version of Civ where they mock cultures now.

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puff_of_fluff@reddit

“The 4Chan Racist Civ modpack”

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Zake_64@reddit

Genuinely that would sell like hotcakes

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SAT0R777@reddit

They had an early start and now have been playing catch-up for the past 400 years

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Izbitoe_ebalo@reddit

They want to get as little era score as possible to get that Dark Age -> Heroic Age transition

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Sentient2X@reddit

Their government has failed them. It’s easier for an individual to get a working phone or computer than it is to install public wastewater infrastructure.

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mylaptopredditVC@reddit

its the culture

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raider1v11@reddit

They are just afraid of toilet witches.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-33980904

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I9w0s@reddit

Gotta contend with the world when you have billions of people living in your country with a sizable economy.. which they cannot but try to anyways.

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floydianvergil@reddit

Lol I unironically actually left Germany without finishing my degree, while leaving pretty much a very decent life there. I even avoided the usual crap of complaining that "de ghermens r cold nd unfriendly brehh", because I actually made some really amazing friends there who taught me MTG, gave me tons of books and beautiful memories, and also left friends from my own and different communities to come back Home again. They were actually really sad and shaken that I left so abruptly, and this is with the fact that I couldn't even speak german properly even after staying for nearly 4 years hahahaha. The guilt was just too much. I couldn't escape any longer. I miss grandpa a lot, I wish I could have saved him back then. Even after running away I just couldn't be happy anymore. Lol somehow someway, I really do feel like Paulie a little bit, coming back home. The airs still rancid, the sun's way too cruel, and every day I step out I lose a significant chunk of my life, if not straight up avoiding an accident. But now the guilt feels a bit less. I am still running away from something, a future that may or may not come, but I dont feel hypocritical anymore. I'll die in this shithole if it comes to it, I'll have that in common with Grandpa now atleast.

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Live_Carpenter_1262@reddit

Sorry to hear that, especially the part about your grandfather. Do you still keep in touch with friends back in Germany?

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floydianvergil@reddit

Thanks man 🫂. I do keep in touch with them, I somehow even seeded the idea in them to meet me sometime soon in the subcontinent hahahaha. Maybe a Nepal trip, Maybe Sri Lanka or some hill stations here in India, the temperature does make me worry for them barring the other cultural shocks aside for a potential visit. They are very dear to me, and I credit them with a lot of lessons and insights that might or might not have visited me someday sometime. It really is very easy to fall in love with people, that I realised more than anything while being there in Germany, with all things that happened the good, the meh and the not so good over all.

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neonkatana@reddit

From my experiences, what I saw so far is that many immigrants are psychologically unwilling to blend in with the culture they are moved to in order to protect their identities. Also, many of them don’t do that, but we don’t hear them because there is nothing to hear about them; they just become standard people in the culture.

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JupiterTVrobot@reddit

No offence, just curious. But what does blending in or assimilating even mean? Immigrants stay to themselves for comfort and familiarity in a foreign land, at least for a while. As long as they're law abiding and productive, can't they be given some leeway and time to assimilate (which will happen by itself)?

What should they even do exactly? Should they abandon their native language, their religion, their own community? Change their names, change their accent? Whatever they do they can't change their skin color or look, and unfortunately that's enough for them to be forever dismissed as outsiders.

It's a lose-lose situation for them. If they don't assimilate, they're criticized for being insular and isolationist. And if they do assimilate, they're still criticized saying they're infiltrating our culture, taking over our institutions, and thrusting/asserting themselves everywhere. How dare they not know their place? Whatever happened to the good old days?

Ultimately it boils down to numbers, and people just don't want to see too many of them everywhere. Doesn't matter how they behave, they'll get picked on and criticized either way.

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panzerboye@reddit

At least India offers their citizen enough hope to have children. Poster's country will collapse

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VerySmallBleeb@reddit

ive never met anyone like this online or in person. are people on 4chan just imagining this?

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PotatoDominatrix@reddit

-moves to Frisco, Texas- "Why isn't this just like India?"

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nadhari12@reddit

So because of these fucker we all are going to get stereotyped? What about millions of indians born here? They will be stereotyped too?

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romulusnr@reddit

I dunno why are you still here, paleface?

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moreddit2169@reddit

Some of y'all are absolutely disgusting and will never even have an inkling of an understanding of what it's like to be born in a place where the system works against you and still dreaming of a better life and working to get away from the shackles. If someone makes it out, they get enough braincells to critically think about the real problems in both their home country and immigrated country, because no place is perfect, and it is valid to speak out about it wherever you are.

Even if Indians didn't come to your country, YOU guys specifically would not have lost out on ANY opportunities -- you were never talented enough for any of them in the first place, because you spent your time complaining about others online in your parents basement.

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IndianDefenceLeague@reddit

If you ever needed evidence that this subreddit isn't actually less racist than pol or the other 4chan sub, look up any post talking about Indians.

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ForestClanElite@reddit

They are Indo-Europeans after all. They've learned the ways of psychopathic/narcissistic ego defense. You are never wrong or experience cognitive dissonance as long as you just keep denying.

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ShoveYourFistInMyAss@reddit

Money. There are also people who go down sewage pipes to clean them. Doesn't mean they like it.

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Sauelsuesor729@reddit

The only sensible answer here

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terranproby42@reddit

Ask the white people who took this place and get back to me

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YesIam6969420@reddit

Honestly it feels like a massive psyop. Yeah, there's a lot of bad people and cities are dirty as fuck, but plenty of great people too.

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Live_Carpenter_1262@reddit

generalizing an entire country of 1.4 billion people is stupid if you ask me.

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toorkeeyman@reddit

Unironically me as a Finn in the Netherlands.

The job market back home sucks because we got topped by Swedes and Russia instead of stealing spices from the browns. Now I have to deal with broken toilets, shit on the street, constant scams, no nature, and high rent

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SeingaltUNo@reddit

Funnily enough a ‘Finn’ in NL is a euphemism for a far less desirable group of people.

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2ndRandom8675309@reddit

The French? (I have no idea about what offends the Netherlands.)

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EmberMcLain_@reddit

Rising sea levels. Damn fish keep trying to steal NL territory.

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Tarianor@reddit

I wouldn't exactly call Finland a 3rd world shithole though. Just a shame the economy was so tightly entwined with Nokia back then.

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Crazy_Crayfish_@reddit

The most patriotic American citizen I know is a 50 year old Indian woman immigrant that has been here for 30 years. She loves American values and considers it obviously the best country on Earth

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-THEKINGTIGER-@reddit

Turk here, our immigrants are also the same trash. Feel free to hate them, we do too.

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Root2109@reddit

gonna get clowned for this but India isn't uniquely gross or unhygienic and there's a lot of cool shit there. it's a massive fucking country. yeah there's slums, but there's nature, food (no not those nasty street food videos), and cool history

no I'm not Indian I'm a white lady.

in B4 "you'd get raped there"

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rpodnee@reddit

It's called money. They're willing to endure a wealthy country's degenerate culture in order to send money back home. Many of them do return eventually.

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akanetendou@reddit

Applies to aloha snackbars as well

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godlyuniverse1@reddit

Found the Indian

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I_AM_NOT_THE_WIZARD@reddit

All it took was interacting with Indians en masse

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Decimator24244@reddit

Still waiting on them to be that world super power they said they'd be.

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kryotheory@reddit

There are two reasons:

Western nations have a higher standard of living, average wage, and better social benefits.
They do not make the mental connection that the reason their countries of origin don't have those things is because of their "superior" culture.

It really does not occur to them, especially Indians. They're in incredibly nationalistic, not only in the sense that "India > not India" but "my specific part of India > other parts of India" along their internal ethnic lines as well. Indian states are basically divided up by language, and by extension, ethnicity.

I've seen full blown arguments between a guy from Tamil Nadu and a guy from Gujarat about who's language is the root of all human language (it's neither) and why that makes them superior to the other.

As for Arabs, it's much more simple: Muslims good and right, Kuffar bad and wrong, ergo MENA countries better than secular western ones.

As for their excuses for why their countries of origin are war-torn bombed out wastelands with an average standard of living two centuries behind the rest of the world, you'll get as many reasons as people you speak with, though none of those reasons will be "the destructive nature of Islam".

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MrWolf327@reddit

As an immigrant this attitude pissed le th fuck off

If you have to pack your bags and search go a better life in another country, your home country wasn’t the bees knees to begin with.

At least you could be grateful you have the opportunity to have a life

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Applitude@reddit

Financial opportunities

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DorisStockwellDay@reddit

pic unrelated

Be Italians

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Schwurbel_Peter@reddit

He better don't wait there to long.

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Vitality_VZ@reddit

gif

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LuthorM@reddit

Same happens with latinos in Spain. Their countries and cultures are always the best but mfs all here

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Sengfroid@reddit

Tbf, with most Latinos Spain went to their country first, immediately said "our culture back home is better" and proceeded to try and beat it into the locals.

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LuthorM@reddit

I'm a catalan so you can imagine I don't have any reason to defend spain nor spanish black history but it is still funny the Stockholm syndrome most latinos have. In fact it is kind of annoying.

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JoshuaLukacs1@reddit

This is actually most immigrants in the US, not just indians. The only ones who are definitely not like this are Cubans.

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Old_Operation_5116@reddit

They have come to collect their reparations from colonisation

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Samurai_2077@reddit

I don’t know any Indian who hate the country the migrated to they might love there home country more but not hate the other except pakistan. And mostly people who migrate to canada hate India back.

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AgentSkidMarks@reddit

Tell that to the protestors waving Mexican flags and burning American flags while screaming that they don't want to go back to Mexico and would prefer to stay in America.

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GreenRiot@reddit

I can explain.

Anon makes shit up because he's mad that he has to see a foreigner once in a while. So he makes the foreigner look like he's the one who's racist but won't leave.

Just like a loser would.

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Crashover90@reddit

Here in my ear

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sesaka@reddit

i am yet to seeing this guy actually exist

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sidnynasty@reddit

Where are you encountering this kind of person?

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Hawt_Dawg_II@reddit

People like earning money and other people like saving money, dumbass. As long as people keep hiring immigrants for cheaper labour they're going to keep being around to fill those spots. Illegally or legally

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Persona_Insomnia@reddit

Idealistic national identity vs reality.

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Monty423@reddit

This is about turks

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lornlynx89@reddit

🤘

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Solid-Ad6854@reddit

Free money

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SpezIsAGayMfer@reddit

Indigenous canadian here; lemme know when you find it.

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KazakiriKaoru@reddit

Unlike america, a lot of countries have subsidised/universal healthcare, where citizens won't have to live on the streets to pay for their medical bills.

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RipDove@reddit

better dead than red commie. My taxes need to go towards bombs, and football stadiums that for some reason Chase Bank gets to collect all the revenue on. NUMBER ONE BABY.

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DaGoldenpanzer@reddit

hey buddy you forgot israel. mind taking a walk with me?

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RipDove@reddit

Oh boy, is it my turn to see what's behind the woodshed?!

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poopcockshit@reddit

Sounds nice

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LazarusPizza@reddit

It was. Until the U.S. onbed them creating a refugee crisis that the U.S. then gets to complain about because 2/3rds of its population have the collective intelligence of a lobotomized chimp.

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RedSander_Br@reddit

Be US.

Fund drug cartels in central and south america during the cold war.

Complain these countries have drugs.

Also,

Be US.

Destablize south and central america.

Tons of imigrants leave to go to a stable country.

Complain about imigrants.

And worst of all.

Be US.

Conquer Mexico.

Complain there are too many mexicans in new mexico.

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Legs_With_Snake@reddit

And that's an explanation for all of them leaving those countries to come to America how?

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Great_Reno@reddit

Good luck

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Greatgg@reddit

Isn't the economy plausible enough explanation? The lack of living-wage paying jobs? People don't see reality in black and white, they will appreciate (and sometimes need) the better pay and the higher standards of living and still value their culture of origin and be frustrated with cultural shock. I'm not saying that I necessarily agree with them, but as far as "plausible explanations" go, that's a pretty exhaustive one.

I live in my origin country in the first world, and I'm the first to say that immigrants here must integrate, learn our language, eat our food and live like us, but I also understand that people that comes here out of necessity may not like it at all. And that's fine, maybe they will go back one day, maybe not and their children will be natives and they'll like our country better than the one of their fathers. That's what happened to many people of my own country wher they were the immigrants somewhere else.

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Judah_Earl@reddit

We call it scouser syndrome in my town.

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Morphling69@reddit

It's really simple.

Is the child of colonizer that doesn't understand history
Is a refugee from PICK ONE WARTORN COUNTRY
Is an Indian Doctor

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zaplinaki@reddit

So many actual nuanced takes, nice comments and actual people trying to understand our immigrants.

Thank you <3

(I also think the whole thing is kind of a psyop tbh cos it has been so dramatic in its rise but who even knows these days.)

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Ora3le@reddit

This is also white men in South Africa today btw

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DringleDringle@reddit

In the last decade?

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Big-Rub9545@reddit

be in a poor country hear about another country that supposedly has jobs, wealth, and freedom go there get none of those things (largely because you’re an immigrant) ”X Y and Z are making this country bad, we need to fix this” dumb fucks on reddit clown on you because you suggested their country should have to improve

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GobiPLX@reddit

Muslim immigrants, every fucking time

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moneybuysskill@reddit

Can’t use the correct hear. Stupid people always think they’re smart

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7jinni@reddit

"Hear" refers to your ability to perceive sound. The irony in your comment is palpable.

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Anzire@reddit

Back then when you say India you think of Buddhist, Apo from Simpsons, a mystical land with exotic spices and food, Smart people like Raj from Big Bang, Slumdunk millionaire, and those people with that unique english accent. They had this great image back then. Basically they were the smart brown asians.

Now its scam centers, all sorts of dirty stuff, local rape, rape of tourists/foreigners, unhygienic food videos, xavier, indians larping as white nationalists, and Apo from the Simpsons. The hate on Indians is also insane, Ive seen people get ban in War Era because some players will call Indians "pajeets".

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izmebtw@reddit

It is possible to like a climate and an economy and not a culture.

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thermal650@reddit

Something something you deserve it for colonialism

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Stannis44@reddit

somtimes i feel sorry for them.

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Ridibunda99@reddit

Dont be. These people continuously vote to keep the same shitbags in power that perpetuate the misery of their home country. Almost all turks in germany are guilty of this behaviour.

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bremsspuren@reddit

Almost all turks in germany are guilty of this behaviour.

Germany wanted dirt-cheap, unskilled labour, so they ended up with Turkey's uneducated hicks.

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