We have been witnessing the recent attacks on Indian students studying in Australia. Thanks to the media to glorify these incidents to such an extent making the diplomats take stock of the situation and bring systems in place to protect the best interests of the majority of 1/3rd Indians going to study in Australia. Revenue wise Australia will be hit very hard if Indian students stop going to this country or if they prefer not to study there. Apart from the economics point of view, it is the fundamental need of every Indian student going abroad to be well protected. After-all International students pay more than 2 times the tuition fees to get admission into Universities across the globe. It is the primary responsibility of the state to protect the international students as well as educate its own citizens to behave humanly with different nationals. Having said that let me also throw light over what instigates these foreign students to attack Indian students. Their government has been giving them free subsidies to live and enjoy till they actually want to earn themselves. Perhaps the high social security to the citizens of Australia has seen the reverse trend owing to the global melt down of state treasury. Moral being - "Earn your own bread. Governments kitty went dry"!!
At the same time, International Asian students in general and Indian students in particular have toiled hard to get odd jobs, pay their tuition fees, land up in good jobs and thereafter apply for PR and make a comfortable living. Mind you all this on their own after touching the Australian soil. So the amount of hard work, hard ships faced by our students are far more than the citizens of Australia itself.
Why did this happen then? The skill-less-ness of the Australian students to work hard, earn their living is tough, owing to their lack of educational qualifications, certifications or mere aptitude for a job and that too when the job loss is quite high, dedicated hard working Indians stand a chance to land into jobs better than them. This instigates restlessness and leads to lawlessness. Over the past three years this has been happening but now the snow ball effect has been seen and Indian Diplomats are taking this very seriously.
In this scenario what best can be done to avoid such incidents however keeping in mind that none should face what shravan kumar is facing now is :
- Do not flaunt Gold chains, bracelets, rings etc in public
- Keep a very low profile while alone like flashing credit cards, cash
- Always venture out in groups - "Ten is better than One"
- Avoid altercations over playing loud music, laughing loud in public places
These might sound quite silly, but if we track the reasons behind such attacks, 75% of the attacks happened because Indian students were found flashing their, gold jewelery, credit cards in public places. When even the super rich are avoiding shopping and asking the shop owners to deliver home the goods for the fear of being kidnapped for ransom, how can students who are in the starting stage of their career take risks?
Hope we see a ray of hope and live amicably over this recession filled global economy.
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