Xenophobia. The fear of foreigners. The word has gathered all the more meaning now. Everywhere we go, if we aren’t the locals, we are looked at as a threat. We call it a globalised era, but really, how true is that?
The situation in the U.S.A is very delicate, now more than ever. Even before Trump came to power, some of the xenophobic local whites were carrying out their protests against the foreigners (read – Indians in the IT). In this very creepy video which was published by spushor in 2016 but has resurfaced again amidst the killings of Indians in the U.S.A, an Ohio man is filming the Indians in a local park and it will give you the chills.
The video is titled, ‘Welcome to Columbus Ohio Suburbs- Let’s Take a Walk to Indian Park’. The White man is like a spectator and he is commenting on the way he has seen the change in the park.
He “surveys the landscape” and makes comments about how Indians have taken over what was once an American settlement. He even calls the park as “mini Mumbai.”
This video is a proof that local Americans have become too terrified of the way Indians are succeeding in the U.S.A. They keep on blaming the Indians for snatching away their jobs!
Even Indians are horrified by this video and are voicing their concerns. Anil Dash, the Indian-American CEO of Fog Creek, a New York-based software firm tweeted,
His video has ordinary Indian American women wearing clothes my family & friends wear, while he walks amidst them making creepy comments.
— Anil Dash (@anildash) March 4, 2017
Watch the video here-
https://youtu.be/9bwhBc7NYdg
This video was accompanied by a document which you can read here. Archived pages are available. The website called SaveAmericanITJobs.org, created and maintained by Steve Pushor (the same man filming the Indians) which posted the video calls the Indian IT industry as ‘Indian IT Mafia’.
This is of serious concern. People cannot just go and stalk other people and post a creepy video about it. It is the height of fear. If Indians are getting jobs, it is because of their hard work and because of the lack of professionals in the USA. It is high time that people get their facts right and then comment.
Source: Hindustan Times