In Australia, there have been hundreds of hate crimes against Indians, for no other reason but that they are different and from India, nothing more.

In the Natalie Holloway case by the way, it was proven the two Indian boys had nothing to do whatsoever with her murder.

I agree though US would have issued travel advisory if this many whites were killed in a short time in India. Or French, or German, whichever, in their country it would have front page news everywhere.

I am really proud to be Hindu that some of us still care for those and their plights abroad, whatever racism or bigotry or crimes they face.

I myself being an Indian have seen many acts of racism in the US, whether black on Indian, white on Indian, white on Chinese, etc. Even the media here writes in newspapers that “Indians in India perform the low level IT jobs in India.” I know this is not true, and so do the rest of you. Racism is a part of life….a Professor told a whole class, that “Indians are typing for the Americans” meaning India did not have its own ingenuity or inventiveness! We just follow the commands and genius of Americans. This would explain I guess why Pentium was created in India, Java, why the mentor for Google was Indian Rajeev Motwani, why even the ease of file sharing for Youtube was the brainchild of an Indian, and why India exports software to 90 countries and the world requires our ingenuity in a variety of software management programs.

Indians abroad: look up crime statistics before arriving, and take extra cautions whenever you can.

This brings up: Why are Hindus and “one billion Indians” being equated? Indians and Hindus are not the same thing.

Right here in the US, when “Indians” or locally born desis talk among each other, the word “American” typically means a “white, christian” person. Other Americans of races like African/Mexican/Middle Eastern/Asian (Japanese, Chinese, Korean) or Indians are not what comes to the mind of most Indian people. In a similar manner, to most ordinary Americans (and this includes all races except Indian Americans) “Indian” typically means “Hindu” if they know something about Indian or it means “middle eastern turban head” if they know nothing about India. You might find 4000 people out of 300 million who know that many religions exist in India, but that’s pretty much it

The Southern Poverty law Center is of no use to Indians concerned about safety. The southern poverty law center gets its money from jewish americans and is preoccupied with white nationalist groups who are not the biggest threat to Indians studying in the US.

Just so this crap doesn’t go unresponded to:

March 10, 2008 – Hundreds of guestworkers from India, lured by false promises of permanent U.S. residency, paid tens of thousands of dollars each to obtain temporary jobs at Gulf Coast shipyards only to find themselves forced into involuntary servitude and living in overcrowded, guarded labor camps, according to a class action lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The lawsuit charges that Signal International LLC and a network of recruiters and labor brokers engineered a scheme to defraud the workers and force them to work against their will in Signal facilities in Pascagoula, Miss., and Orange, Texas.

Try to leave the anit-semitism at the door

I think MD sums up my sentiment. While it might be a bit alarmist and even slightly trite for the group to write this letter, if they get the attention for it I hope that they find a way to help educate Indian students in their new environment. You hear of American college students falling victims to crime all the time. There are so many factors here, being out of the home for the first time, lack of real life experience that contribute to them being victims. Indian students I would think are even more susceptible to such crimes.