Local comsumption??? PM of "Great Britain" on an offical visit to a foreign land passing such comments and that too repeatedly during various press conferences is for local consumption????
Of course Cameron's comments were for his Indian audience. That is why he made them during a trade visit to India and not at 10 Downing Street.
Anyways let me share with you some very important steps that GOI took which is reaping benefits now....
I don't think most of them, except the economy, have anything to do with the West's courtship of India.
India was solidly in the Soviet camp; nobody bought the NAM charade.
This helped India tremendously by bringing the hugely powerful Zionist lobbies in the West to its side, especially against Pakistan. India diplomatic successes are arguably due more to the Zionist lobbies than Indian diplomats themselves.
This one is true.
This is the classic case of 'saying nice doggie until you find a stone'. India and China are on a collision course and both countries know it. India is not spending all this money on weapons just for show.
Western businesses and government don't give a damn about democracy. Even the Western media makes noises about it only as a cover for other agendas.
Bottom line, the West's love for India mushroomed about the same time that China started its meteoric rise, and India recornized Israel. India's economy is also important, but it is a secondary concern in relation to strategic security concerns. i.e. China, Israel.
I think your judgment about Anti Pakistan OZ is bias.
The Australian media is one of the worst in terms of pandering to various ethnic minorities. You will almost never see any negative coverage of India, China, Vietnam, Greece, Thailand, or any of the major ethnic groups living in Australia, although they do make exceptions for Muslims,
quelle surprise!.
You will find cooking shows about the most miniscule of Australian minorities, but none about Pakistani cuisine. Ditto for art and music. The free (News Corp.) commuter magazine mX showcased fashion shows in Sri Lanka, Colombia, Vietnam and African countries, but gave zero coverage to Pakistani fashion shows.
The only time you will hear about Pakistan in Australian media, other than cricket, is in a negative conext. It repeats Indian assertions verbatim as "news" without qualifying them or allowing a counter statement. And it promotes only those Pakistanis who toe the Western line about blaming Pakistan first -- Imran Khan is the only exception because of his cricket fame.
Indians are big community in Australia.
That's the whole point. I have no problem if Australian media caters to the large Indian community. What I object to is that they attack Pakistan and dare not show anything positive about Pakistan for fear of alienating the Indians, especially after the student attacks.
So Indians are doing many extraordinary efforts to act like a accepted community, not aliens, are scattered randomly and are not like others those who like to live in their own majority pockets of areas and do bussiness there.
Indians are no more or less integrated than other communities. There are Indian ghettos, just as there are ghettos of otgher ethnicities. At the same time, there is a large Indian student population, which lives dispersed to find the cheapest housing -- as all student populations do.
Also people from many ethic backgrounds do like Indian movies in OZ. So there is definitely a market.
That's a circular argument. While I have always recognized India's soft power, the fact is that it is familiarity that breeds appreciation. If people rarely or never saw Indian movies (or Japanese anime or Hong Kong martial arts movies), they would not develop a taste for them. Conversely, if people saw lots of Nigerian movies (which outnumber Bollywood in sheer numbers per year), they would start liking them.
no other kind of immigrant makes the kind of fuss a significant number of muslims do. no other kind of immigrant is plotting bomb explosions and terror attacks.
r3alist already answered your assertions but let me add a couple of points.
It is the media that creates stereotypes by selective reporting. Every time a muslim commits a crime, it is reported as such and their religion and ethnicity are mentioned up-front. The same is not true of other religions/ethnicities; in fact most of these crimes are not even reported in the mainstream media. For example, the Australian media gives front page headlines every time a muslim or Lebanese person runs afoul of the law, but there is almost no coverage of Vietnamese and Samoan gangs, or Chinese and Thai prostitution rings.
You may be surprised to learn that most of the challenges to christian prayers and other symbolism in the west comes not from muslims but from jews and atheists. Yet the media makes it sound like muslims are challenging the host culture at every turn.
Integration, or lack thereof, is a dog whistle term to legitimize racial and religious bigotry. When sikhs wear a turban, or jews wear a yarmulka, they are not accused of 'not integrating'. But when muslim women wear a head scarf, everybody has apoplectic reactions. Similarly for building religious schools or centers of worship.
Or take the BBC show "Make me a Muslim". In it they had the perfect opportunity to showcase well 'integrated', middle class, ordinary British muslims. But did they pick such individuals? Of course not! Instead they went out of their way to pick the most alien looking creatures, walking the streets of Britain in long Arabic robes, and talking in barely comprehensible, thick foreign accents. It is all part of a pattern to stereotype muslims as violence-prone aliens.
The fact is that many people in the West resent all non-white immigrants but they can't say anything because of political correctness. So when the media legitimizes bigotry against a particular immigrant group, it gives the closet racists a cathartic release for their pent up anger.
As far as terrorism, as others have mentioned, other groups would also resort to violence if Western countries were supporting a colonial outpost on their land and were engaged in wholesale massacre in their homelands.
haha I get it... Seriously though I love curry. Nothing better in life than a good curry and a cold beer.
Well, curry is common to both India and Pakistan (and maybe Sri Lanka as well.)
It is true that war was exported to Pakistan,but Pakistan,nonetheless imported it as well,for reasons whatever they may be.
That's because we have not had too many politicians willing to do the hard work and build up a strong self-sufficient Pakistan. Most of them took the short term approach of selling out the country to the highest bidder.
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, for all his other flaws, at least had some policies putting Pakistan's interests first (except for his little tantrum that lost East Pakistan, I know, but that's a complicated and off-topic subject). In any case he redeemed himself with later actions that benefitted Pakistan greatly.
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