Racism At Commonwealth Games
The South African criticism is part of a larger grouse of the African nations against organisers of the Commonwealth Games. While the OC has been overly sensitive to the wishes of countries like the UK, Australia and Canada, the African countries found that they had been virtually ignored by the organisers.
In fact, privately, the word from many African countries is that India was practising the same kind of racism against the African countries that India itself has complained against.
Read more: Racism at Commonwealth Games? Africans upset - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Racism-at-Games-Africans-upset/...
well...was kidding
The thing is, now it has become a chain fission reaction (CWG)...and even a dead little cockroach will be aired by media all over the world...one failure leads to thousand rumours...and sure these are rumours emerging from yellow journalism
good night!!
My point - there is racism and discrimination everywhere, so definitely it's bound to be there at the CWG, but from a different angle.
You think the officials have given the same facilities to the Afican countries as they have given the European countires?
I have a feeling that in the rooms of the african athletes, there is no A/C, or there must be a small run-down one :-(. Whereas the EU athletes rooms will have brand new A/Cs.
The rationale behind this is if we gave the african guys brand new aircons, they may not be used to cool rooms and hence their perfomance may drop :-(
I think I needa quit ranting and get my drunk a55 to bed :-( nite nite!
colt45, Pakistanis don't discriminate ...we simply kill..
wow... Indians against Pakistanis...you shall rather stop drinking lol
Hygiene remind me of my chief engineer, when 4 years back a German came for erection of a machine, and during lunch time he complained for food hygiene, how ever food was from a local standard restaurant.
When he became too over, chief engineer simply asked him, that do u ever remembered hygiene when it comes to sucking and licking?
In the US the whites discriminate against the blacks, the blacks against the mexicans, the mexicans against the indians, the indians against the pakistanis, the pakistanis against the filipinos, the filipinos against the chinese, the chinese against the vietnamese.... and so on...
Damn!!! I needa stop drinking and hit the sack! :-(
Tappi Hui???
Trans: Colt is from Mumbai
Tappi huee hey!!
TRANS: WK refrain from racism (what mumbaiyaa??what??)
LOL You Mumbaiyaa keep quiet :P
Why is it so surprising to you that Indians are racist? Hell, we even discriminate among our own ;-)
or Romania?
Tomorrow shall be the official end of India Bashing Week...choose a nation for next week....and please not Pakistan next week, its been a month alredy...
Lets choose Antarctica !!
...r o f l
I'm shocked, SHOCKED to hear there is racism going on in India! lol
we have a saying in India that the crying baby gets the milk. The western nations kick up a ruckus so they were attended to first.
nevertheless the party continues..
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With the CWG you are dealing with a LOT more people than IPL. With IPL you can just put them in a 5* hotel and need one venue.
CWG you have to build the accommodation..and a variety of venues esp for the games...huge difference.
No-one forced India to host it...they asked to.
I just wonder why nobody says it as it is when they come to play IPL or the former ICL where they used to stay in such sub-standard rooms, everything looked perfect then. Ah must be the fat pay packages.
lol, are you saying that some people actually said it as it is???? Nooooooooo.........and of course that had to be the haughty, racist Westerners....lololololo.....God, QL is really fun today! :)
Strange article. South Africa, the major nation says they are happy.
Perhaps the answer is that the "Western" nations were proactive in inspecting facilities and highlighting problems in order to get the CWG to act..
And by the way, we teach racism to our snakes too. Told the bugger to go enter the black skinned athletes' rooms. Well done snake.
Thanks to our media who have delved only on the negatives - the CWG has looked like a bad idea. Infact there are pretty awesome images of CWG doing the rounds in facebook. Hope everything goes well and the CWG be a success.
As for hapy who surely not a qatari and is too ashamed to even post his nationality on his profile - let him live in in his own little world while the rest of the world focus on positives and try to enrich their lives. Dude be a man and post that you are a pakistani.
And there were no complaints about Athletes Village here.
I had two friends who competed and they said it was absolutely fantastic and those two are certainly used to pampering.
So I think some officials should stop using racism as a smokescreen for their own incompetence.
Oryx, the usual...nothing new.
Well i was living in Manchester when they held the games and there were no complaints from any nation....I think it was very good of athletes to put up with our over-clean pampering facilities ;) - so much so some decided to stay!
It's not just about hygiene.
Australian cricketers are currently touring India for a test series, they are fine but the athletes are saying there is a security threat in going to India.
The cricket matches will draw a bigger crowd than the CWG so a more appealing target, I think whining is a bit over the top.
Well the organisers are VERY wrong.
I have been to 22 countries in Africa and I forget how many in Asia.
Oryx, but of course! did you not know that??????
Some call it whining some call it standards.
They are athletes whose universe revolves around being in peak physical condition....to give an optimum performance.
Organisers probably consider africans have lower standards of hygiene hence dirtier places for them.
Yes I remember that - an Indian official claiming that Westered athletes are too pampered and have different standards.
Well when the Commonwealth Games were held in Manchester I don't remember any of the athletes complaining that they were getting over-pampered and the accommodation was over clean!
However i do remembering some absconding and not turning up to events.
So if you are white and complain you are a pampered racist?
nomerci they are whining about everything, not just hygiene.
By the way did you know the UN roof fell down today, Where is that building located, let me think ;)
And which building is more important United Nations or weightlifting arena for CWG, let me think again ;)
Whyte, somebody already explained why they complained...because they have a different idea about hygiene....who said that again?
Did you read the article in same newspaper where it was said that the countries complaining about the facilities are only from Australia, Great Britain & New Zealand and it's just racism against India?
I guess you only read the articles which are against India, awesome eyesight you got there.