What ppl think when they go abroad !
A friend of mine ,originally from syangja ,though she did her schooling from reputed school in Kathmandu, returned from USA last week. She was about to go India right after a week. She wanted to hangout with me so we went to places, in the evening, Thamel, New Road, Kingsway and other places. In 3 short meetings, she tried to make me realize that I am living in hell. And that we don’t know how to live and that we’re so backward and in many other things. She did not mentioned directly that of course but she tried. She is my friend, so I hate to say that I hate the people who act like they belong to some other country just because they’ve spent some time there and whine about how bad the country is how bad is it going to be. She’d been in Washington for barely 5 year and when she returned Nepal, she was saying “things are not like this in ‘her’ place” as if that is where she belongs!
She is not the only one actually. I have many friends living in USA, Australia,UK,Norway and otherAmerican and European countries. Everytime they come down here, they not only whine about the situation here but curse us for our bad waste management sytem, for the traffic problem, for lack of water and for the political system. They curse us for giving them hard time during their a month long visit.
“Poor Nepalese are never going to learn these things.”.
That is the exact line she said.
I wanted to say that why don’t you brilliant minds just stay in Nepal and manage the waste properly, make roads and get into politics and make it better? Otherwise why don’t you just forget about us? Just stay where you are and serve your ‘place’. Isn’t it your duty to make it better if you call yourself Nepalese citizen? You could at least just let it be if you can’t do anything. But I am too nice to say that to a girl in her face , hope she understood me !
