enigma | General | 15 September 2005, 8:57pm
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No gifts would be the best thign... ay!
I've seen this trend in many desis living in the US. If they are students, its understandable, but many of those who buy gifts for their close ones from dollar shops or prefer to dump their old appliances on their parents are people earning $65,000 and above. How cheap can one get?
Worst of all, they get defensive and speak along the track of "so what if I buy $1 gifts?" or "don't talk rubbish".
When I got my new Nokia cellphone, some people asked me if I was going to give my old one to my parents. Well, I was not surprised because all those guys had just "gifted" their old cell phones to their parents who were overjoyed that their son had given them a "US made phone"!!!
crap crap crap! man stop deleting my comments....
dawn, congrats for being the first $1 gift patron to come out so openly.
By the way, this blog is not democratic. There's no democracy here. You posted rubbish and it was deleted. Your crap comments don't deserve to be here in any case, democracy or not.
If you don't have something constructive, waste your time elsewhere. Adios.
how cld u jump to a conclusion that most of the NRI's do that? bet u kno some ppl in US, but do u the number of ppl who live in US?
You probably just kno THAT group of ppl who do such things. I have never been to the $ shop and neither do i kno indians who do that. stuff thr sucks, neither i nor the hundreads of ppl i kno wld consider giving gifts from that place. Deal with it dude, its ur opinion, dont talk as though u got stats from SEC and FASB.
blur, I'm talking about "many desis living in the US", not all or most of the desis. There is a difference!
Nobody generalised this issue. I have seen this with many desis, and its my opinion. This blog talks about desis who are too stingy to buy good gifts for their loved ones. It doesn't say that *ALL* desis are stingy. Obviously your friends don't come under this category, which is good.
And yes its a blog; thats why I'm posting my opinion here. I don't need government stats on this or any Ph.D. student's research analysis to form my opinion because I'm talking about what I have observed around me.
If you think with a wrapped mind , everything looks bad.
One thing you have to realise is that its the people and not the place they live that makes them behave like that. If those same people were in india too they would have been the ones picking up cheap gifts here too. Its there mentality and if u find Lot of NRIs like that maybe most people who go to the US are materialistic to start with. So u are looking at it the wrong way. I have known a lot of NRIs who donate a lot of money towards charity. Of all the people who are commenting here , cross ur heart and asnwer to yourself if you are really in a position to comment on this topic.
Open Mind, the issue here is about the many NRIs who are stingy, not about *ALL* NRIs.
People change a lot when they move out of India. I've seen many of my old friends who have turned more selfish and stingy when they return to India on a holiday.
You are right about people who are selfish before they have left for the US. You are also right about NRIs donating to charity. But that is out scope of this blog.
However, this topic is about NRIs who are stingy enough to visit dollar shops to buy cheap gifts for their loved ones, and *NOT* about NRIs who don't mind spending liberally for buying gifts or give charity.
arul, if you read blog you will realise that it generalises way too much. It is like saying something and then saying that you mean it for only a few of the intended people. If you are soo clear about what you are talking about ,, then say so, don not expect others to make assumtions. we can read only as much as is written there.
and i think you can do better than saying people get miserly once they leave the country. People become miserly as they grow old,,, maybe thats where your friends are changing?
well, open mind,,i am clear about what i am talking about. I told you those were my observations and my views which were shared by my friends as well. I am not telling people to assume. Take it from me most of the NRI's are stingy and calculative. This is my blog and i write what i feel.
No wonder, my cousin gave me the complementary T- shirts from S/W companies as gifts..... hehehehe..... atleast the $ gift wud've made me happier.....