----- Original Message ----- From: "ritu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Killer Bs Discussion'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 6:06 AM Subject: RE: SCOUTED: Case of Foot-in-Mouth Disease Found in New York Senator
Ronn!Blankenship forwarded: > ST. LOUIS Jan. 6 � Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton apologized for > joking that > Mahatma Gandhi used to run a gas station in St. Louis, saying > it was "a > lame attempt at humor." > > The director of a U.S. center devoted to Gandhi's teachings said the > remarks amounted to stereotyping and were insensitive. There are just two ways for this to make sense: A] Gujjus run a lot of gas stations in the US....? Is that true? B] People think of Gandhi as a gujju first and an Indian second...? This seems kind of unbelievable to me but then I am sitting many a continents away..... A significant fraction of gas stations/convenience stores in the US are run by people from the Indian sub-continent. An example of this is the owner who graduated first in a class of 100,000 from C.I.T.* on the Simpsons. Its a bit of a stereotype, but not really a bad one. Its more of a generalization. Almost everyone has had personal dealings with someone from India/Pakistan/Bangladesh in a convenience store; and for many that's their only/main way of encountering folks from that area. Dan M. *Calcutta Institute of Technology. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
