Posted on 08/13/2011 9:43:41 PM PDT by Nachum
The United States has apologised for controversial remarks made by a US diplomat who spoke of "dark and dirty" Indians, calling the comments "inappropriate". US Vice-Consul Maureen Chao told Indian students on Friday that her "skin became dirty and dark like the Tamilians" after a long train journey, according to Indian media -- referring to people from the southern state of Tamil Nadu. During her speech in the Tamil Nadu capital, Chennai, Chao was quoted as saying: "I was on a 24-hour train trip from Delhi to (the eastern Indian state of) Orissa. "But, after 72 hours,
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I wonder if she would have been recalled had she likened her “dark and dirty” skin color to obama’s?
US Vice-Consul Maureen Chao told Indian students on Friday that her "skin became dirty and dark like the Tamilians" after a long train journeyPresident Carter once took a trip to Mexico during which he ran all the way with Montezuma's Revenge. Then he made some stops to inspect the ethnic purity of US neighborhoods.
I am not getting the deal here. After a 24 hour train trip, on those rat trap trains, she was dark and dirty.
Ping
My first thought too, elsie. Is she LDS?
It’s Tamilian.
Obama appoints all these dimwits to represent the USA and most of them(like their President is beyond incompetent, at the least)and just flub the basics... remember Hillary’s stupid Reset Button with Russia that was spelled wrong in Russian at the start of the Obama catastrophe?
Obama’s Community Organizers Incompetence comes through loud and clear here, and in past, and probably future incidents?
The Bengalis and Kashmiris are Indo-Europeans, while the Tamils are Dravidians. All are Caucasian.
the north-eastern Indians tend to be Mongoloid (i.e. of Tibeto-Burmese or Tai races) and there are a scattering of Australoids (tribals) in Indian forests and in the Andaman and Nicobar islands
The Bengalis and Tamils are really separate "nations" in linguistic, racial, cultural and ethnic backgrounds (even religion to an extent as though both are mostly Hindu, there are different gods/goddesses worshipped).
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