# What's the deal with people from India?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-people-from-india/126728>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 2, 2002, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-people-from-india/126728 "2002-09-02T23:30:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![jb\_farley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jb\_farley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jb_farley)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2002, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-people-from-india/126728/41 "2002-09-05T07:08:54Z")

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noo, I’d say that what fueled most fundamentalist-Islamic anti-American sentiment was not Americans traveling to distant places; it was American troops being stationed around the globe, or American-based multinational brands asserting themselves around the globe.

that, coupled with rampant anti-third world biases engendered by the former and the latter.

i have read recently (and taken with a grain of salt) the statistic that only 5% of Americans have a passport. or maybe that those that have passports travel abroad. either way, that unconfirmed statistic coupled with American insistence that world affairs go her way, well- hell, i’d hate us too.

jb

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**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2002, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-people-from-india/126728/42 "2002-09-06T23:56:43Z")

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definitely, a multinational brand asserting itself is a good excuse to hate citizens of a nation!

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**Author:** ![chula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a4c791/32.png) [@chula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chula)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2002, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-people-from-india/126728/43 "2002-09-07T01:53:38Z")

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> \*Originally posted by G. Cornelius \*  
> **In danger of going off topic… If you will forgive an unflattering comparison from a Briton, I must say that this is in contrast to the attitude of Americans. I have travelled all over the world and I have been struck by how few Americans one meets - I recon I meet about as many Australians! America is a rich country, so it is not that people cannot afford it. The stay-at-home mentality of many Americans is, I suspect, a prime cause of failure to understand the _real_ world and, in turn, for Americans to be misunderstood by others. Please don’t misunderstand, I know America has a lot to offer a tourist, but would it not be nice if pkbites et alia could boast of having visited almost every continent rather than almost every state of the union?**

Yeah, but most of the world wishes Brits would stay home more.

As others have pointed out, Europeans tend view themselves as worldly because they are acquianted with other European countries. In the places I’ve traveled most (Latin America), I’m more likely to encounter an American than a European. Mexico is about as far as Americans can afford to go.

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**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2002, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-people-from-india/126728/44 "2002-09-07T13:56:47Z")

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> \*Originally posted by chula \*  
> **Yeah, but most of the world wishes Brits would stay home more.**

Do you have a cite for what “most of the world wishes” or are you just relying on you own bigotry? :rolleyes:

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