NRIs buy gifts from Dollar Shops!?!
enigma | General | 15 September 2005, 8:57pm
This is just not my observation, its what most of my friends think about NRIs. These guys leave the country in search of big dreams and big bucks..most of them are able to fulfill that dream...their folks back home think proudly of them..as they have made a good life for themselves..
They stay for a year or two and when they come for a visit back home..they plan to buy gifts for their friends,relatives and parents ..for most of their shopping they end up visiting the dollar tree or the dollar shops...picking up stuff in bulk for a dollar each..i have heard.. guys buying latest cell phones and laptops for themselves and gifting the old ones they had to their parents or siblings as "gifts"...
For what have they gone there for????? What are they getting out of the whole experience of buying such cheap gifts for the people who love them and who await their return ever so eagerly...why is their tendency like that...
I can understand if people who have gone as students do such a thing..but i know of many many people who are docs, scientists and well settled professionals who buy such cheap gifts for their loved ones..and the same people once in india are gifted expensive items worth thousands...why do NRIs behave so stingy ....do they not have the heart to spend a few extra dollars for gifting stuff to their folks....
They would be busy and working their entire lives in that alien country...but for what???? Their parents would have a two bedroom house ..and what would their son/ daughter working in the states own ...a three bedroom house...so is this all worth it for just an extra bedroom
My basic dilemma is why is the basic thought process of an NRI so different ...they are given a 5 star treatment when they are in india.. but they would be leading a life of isolation in a foreign land.....they would crib that india is not developing in terms of infrastructure and the quality of life is poor here...agreed to all that...but we have bigger hearts boss...we dont pick up stuff from the dollar shops to gift our parents....
This does not mean all NRIs do that...but yes a majority of them do..and my write up is based on the discussion that i had with most of my friends who live in the US....
So even if one person decides to pick up a good decent gift to gift his/her parents,brothers,sisters, relatives and friends instead of buying the cheap maal and giving big big projections ..my purpose of putting my thoughts together would be served.
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