Originally posted by StillWaitinCSC
Dang Sillyman you sure PO a lot off folks with this one... Maybe its time to say I'm sorry
Interesting that I am only now (midnight) reading what went on in this thread. Plus I know I am gonna be busy today, so I won't be able to read this all day tommorow, so I figured since all this uproar has me in the center, I might as well reply.
kingno1, you edited your messages out, so I could not even read them.
, so I really don't know what started this uproar. LOL. Frankly if I say "The sky is blue" .. there would be some dude who will take objection, so it doesn't matter.
UBI is a term like ABCD. It refers to a person who was born in India, but has all foreign accents and knows everything about everywhere without ever setting foot outside the country. Another term for that is RNI = Resident Non Indian. (As opposed to NRI). So when you say PIO, I thought that meant UBI. (Didn't know PIO meant Person of Indian Origin).
Which is why I had said,
Is PIO = UBI = Unfortunately Born in India?
... So I never started the uproar, it is this string of misinterpretations and fixed set sick mindsets that started it.
.. Another thing, folks here on the verge of getting their green cards,
demanding the right to stay here, work here and be treated equal .. are actually denigrating America .. their new home. Just sad if I may say. Try asking for these rights in Saudi Arabia (or any muslim country for that matter).
I'd like to repeat lindMac's question,
If India is so much better than America, why are you here putting up with all this BCIS torture?.
FYI, INsBeats2Death, I can afford my medical insurance, and I was no Maharaja back in India.
http://www.boloji.com/kabir/dohas/kd20.htm
The one thing India has better is it's rich cultural heritage. But I read about Yoga on MSNBC, and not on timesofindia. I see people doing Yoga and Chi at Stanford, but not at IIT (atleast not to that extent). I see people flocking like crazy to watch "Ek choti si love story" .. even getting beaten by police in a mad frenzy to buy tickets, and people behaving totally maturely on an R rated movie right here.
Not saying that America's culture is better, but our's won't remain any better at the pace it is detoriating.
This board welcomes off topic level headed conversation alongwith immigration talk. It does not welcome personal attacks. If this thread detoriates further, I will close it.
Though I am hoping .. atleast the real Indians of us, will remember the one good thing Indian culture taught us, "tolerance and consideration", and try and maintain a healthy conversation here.
http://www.boloji.com/kabir/dohas/kd4.htm
The Indians who regularly visit strip bars will yell at me of course, afterall, the right to chastise others comes only from self-chastity, so hey why not chastise Silly Man while we can.
http://www.boloji.com/kabir/dohas/kd2.htm
PS: Just to clarify, I am *VERY* proud of being an Indian, but only because I have kept the Indian in myself alive. I donot drink, I donot smoke, I meditate everyday and I have never visited a strip bar. But, as of today, America is better than India, both in spirituality and materialism. I have discovered spirituality better here, than I could ever in India, simply because here I have the means, access and freedom to practise it. Just my views, you don't have to agree with them.