Stereo-typing

Yesterday's post was on the longer side so today's aim will be to keep it short and sweet. After all, Shweta keeps insisting that I practise writing gyaan in smaller sentences as clients have no patience to read big paragraphs and sentences. So here goes.

The other day, my boss asked me casually, so what did you do on the long weekend? then before I could answer, he launched into a tirade of how I must have sat at home and drunk my feni and how I could be satisfied as long as I had alcohol by my side. I enjoy the occasional drink but Feni!! I am not such a bebdo!

People type cast goans so easily. To everyone else outside Goa, Goa is the land of sex, sand and sun, the land where alcohol is cheap and people are cheaper. In B'lore , people assumed in GIM, we could attend classes in bermudas. people bunk lectures all the time and live at the beach. I mean, come on, get a touch of reality!! We are easy going, life is slow paced but the average goan families are super conservative. All the hip-hop life that every keeps hearing about is mostly lived by the tourists that visit here and the college crowd belonging to Xaviers and to a lesser extent Dempo's/Engg & Medical colleges etc.

Goa is not the only state to be type-cast of course, Punjabis are loud,heavy drinkers who love to party and can never be taken seriously, Gujju's on the other hand are most miserly and are gurus of the stock market. Southies speak in a strange accent and everything that they say sounds like yenda binda anna panna wateva..or as we used to make fun of Muthu,'Yenda bangeera, nhad bageera, haiya haiya!!'. Chinkies are hot and forward, Mallu men are perverts, Tams are ultra-conservatives and extremely rude, Delhiites are arrogant, rich pricks who think they own the world, Maharasthrians all run around saying Jai Shivaji, Jai Maharasthra!! hehe...At this rate, you never need to get to know a person. All that you need to ask is which state a person is from and you can draw up a character portrait from that..

I remember my 10th standard NCERT biology text-book. Each and every disease mentioned in the book had to list some areas where the disease was found. There was one common sentence for all the diseases, 'This disease is found in places so and so and also in some parts of Africa'. You never needed to know places for the diseases. All that you needed to write was , found in some parts of Africa.

Moral for today: Never ever ever visit 'Some parts of Africa!!!'and for god's sake, please get to know people for what they are rather than forming an opinion on them purely based on the region that they come from.....