I don't care if it's race based or not. I never even said that in my statement. The fact remains, people are being attacked. Be it nationals or not, it is the country's responsibility to take care of people in the country irrespective of whether they are nationals, visitors, student or new immigrants.
Yes, Indians have been attacked. Today's ToI (India's largest selling newspaper) states there have been 3 attacks in 10 days on Indians. Race based or not, that's a lot. I've read dozens of attack related news in the papers in the past couple of years. I don't have statistics but my estimate would be it's over 50 in the past year. And that's just Indians. If you consider everyone, I'm sure the number would be even higher. So my question to you is, don't you think the violence is high in a country where hundreds of people (even non nationals) are killed every year in random attacks?
India isn't considered to be the "safest" country on the planet. Other than terrorism (I've heard India has the highest number of terrorism caused deaths the past few years) we hardly have any non-nationals being caused harm to and every time it happens, a huge deal is made out of it.
Also, I have never seen/heard of a hold up or a random stabbing in our city and honestly, there are way better cities than Mumbai in the world when it comes to certain aspects
Australia being a "more developed nation", I honestly expect better.
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Once while coming back from a party me and my friends went to 7/11 and there was an indian guy working behind the counter, anyway we were being fuck heads, stealing lollies, jumping over the counter and picking up his outside microphone screaming "THIS IS A FUCKING HOLD UP" while we were doing this he was just standing back not doing anything (obviously felt threatened) But yeh, this is what stupid people do, and unfortunately these Indian students get caught up in it. They are just easy targets.
Well, you guys were being "fuck heads", it's not really that guy's fault, is it. I wouldn't expect him to do anything except stand back and let you do what you want and call the police once you guys leave.
Someone once said, the mark of a truly great nation is in how they treat their visitors.
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Australia's probably number two due to our shitty internet and the filtering to be put in place!
I've been reading a lot of cases of violence in Australia of late in the newspapers. 
Yeah we're all just bunch of uneducated, ignorant racists 
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Yes, and you should not travel here because as soon as you step off the plane all these white people will just run towards you and just start stabbing you.
Gotta love the Indian media 
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Originally posted by John Anderton
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Originally posted by davidpolitis
Australia's probably number two due to our shitty internet and the filtering to be put in place!
I've been reading a lot of cases of violence in Australia of late in the newspapers.
Yeah we're all just bunch of uneducated, ignorant racists .
Wow, way to take it out of proportion.
My mistake for thinking we could actually have a civilized discussion.
Never mind.
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