They forget that the President of GOPIO did not embrace Guyanese Indians as equal but expressed a similar opinion of them that was the legacy of what kept the ancestors to Guyanese Indians in limbo in India. The President said Guyanese Indians are as their black brethren in Guyana backward and lazy and not the same Indians cultural capacities as the native Indian!
Is that true? Do we have the exact words by any chance? Kari?
the black brethren part is my ornamentation...he said Guyanese indians are not like indians from india.
He said they are lazy, not concerned with sending their children on to higher education, not culturally sophisticated and in short more inclined to criminality.
We discussed it here in the early 2000. All the New York dailies were appalled.
You are an antiIndian basher and a loose cannon parading like a know it all fool. We ask you for the quote above. Now its obvious that you making this shyte up.,,its part of your "ornamentation"?? Now we know who is the real dyck.
I am certain I know more than you to this point because I have not seen any thing offered in contradiction to what I said. I have twin daughters who grew up in India, am still in daily contact with their wonderful mother with whom I raise these kids so what again do you know of the culture in its broad spectrum that I miss?
Add to that I have one parent of Indian ancestry whose blood courses through my veins. Add to that I am incubated in the culture so its belief systems and cultural artifacts are etched in my being so who are you to tell me what is it is to be an India nor not? That I acknowledge I my thought space also include my white and Amerindian culture and that I embrace the latter does not make be a little less Indian. It in fact makes me Guyanese!
What the President of GOPIO said of Guyanese is no less than what Indians say of black people....lazy, culturally and morally deficient, of little concern for learning etc and simply not up to speck as the real India from India.
My choice of words should not have been "ornamentation" implying I embellished. It should have been ironic because that is what it is. It is ironic that GOPIO feels that way. Further, whether you care to knowledge it or not many Indians from India we are faux indian... not cut from experiences in the same land and so have profound contamination in the social fabric. Deny that if you must but every Guyanese Indian in the diaspora or who ever visited India will tell you their concept of being superior to us seeps through their mode and manner like thick molasses!
Now you can continue being a dick or address what displeases you about what I said.