Freedom of Speech
Scene:
Somewhere in North-east USA, around lunch time, three desi guys are sitting under an umbrella table outside a cafe. After four months of snow and winter finally Sun had shine and it's about 75 degrees Fahrenheitt. Lets call these three guys Siddharth (Sid), Anuj and Vivek (Vicky).
Sid: Yaar, tum done ke peeche teen phatake aa rahi hai.. Maa kasam who beechwali chapti to kamal hai!!! Yaar garmiyo me yeh goriya kya dikti hai! Lagtha hai kapde pahana bhool jati hai! hehehe..
(Anuj turning around to throw an empty soda bottle in dustbin and checking out the girls)
Anuj: Hai, abe chamdi to dekh....makhan hai makhan! Pata nahi muje kab milengi aise ladki.
The girls passed-by their table and Vicky checked them out from back...
Vicky: Loudly "Bhe*****" (No one in the surrounding area reacted to this hindi slang.) Kya figure hai!! Oye kudiye, jara hamari taraf to dhek....kasam se teri raate na savar du to mere naam Vicky nahi!!!!
The chicks had no clue about the guys checking them and passing comments on them, so they kept walking. And these guys laughed their hearts out.
Guys that's a perfect example of "Freedom of Speech" Knowing a native foreign language in US is by far the biggest asset. It gives the power to express, private stuff in public, without catching anyone's attention.
I sometimes feel what's in USA and should go back to India. But guys now it's really difficult to leave this wonderful gift back in USA and go home. On a down side when surrounded by Indian community it sometimes gets frustrating to control oneself from expressing the emotions in public!!
On other hand, people who do not understand our language are irritated, and what else can they do, they know no head or tail of what we are talking?
I was once at the receiving end of 'Freedom of speech'.
On a boring Sunday evening, my roommate and I went out for Chinese dinner. It's a well known fact that the lady at the Chinese restaurant takes order in English and then passes it to the open kitchen behind her in Chinese!
Unfortunately that day we two were the only customer in the restaurant and it seemed the chapti (Chinese lady) did not care much about us as her customer. The lady was pissed on the guy working in kitchen (probably her husband). So they started arguing in Chinese at top of their voices. My roommate and me did not understand a word of their conversation and they kept torching us with their language until we were done with our meal. It was so annoying that at one point we felt like leaving the restaurant without paying!!!
Thus expressing in native language in public could be fun for one but definitely annoying for the other. Having said that, does it mean we should leave our freedom of expression and talk in English in public? Or should we ignore what others feel and enjoy our freedom?
Somewhere in North-east USA, around lunch time, three desi guys are sitting under an umbrella table outside a cafe. After four months of snow and winter finally Sun had shine and it's about 75 degrees Fahrenheitt. Lets call these three guys Siddharth (Sid), Anuj and Vivek (Vicky).
Sid: Yaar, tum done ke peeche teen phatake aa rahi hai.. Maa kasam who beechwali chapti to kamal hai!!! Yaar garmiyo me yeh goriya kya dikti hai! Lagtha hai kapde pahana bhool jati hai! hehehe..
(Anuj turning around to throw an empty soda bottle in dustbin and checking out the girls)
Anuj: Hai, abe chamdi to dekh....makhan hai makhan! Pata nahi muje kab milengi aise ladki.
The girls passed-by their table and Vicky checked them out from back...
Vicky: Loudly "Bhe*****" (No one in the surrounding area reacted to this hindi slang.) Kya figure hai!! Oye kudiye, jara hamari taraf to dhek....kasam se teri raate na savar du to mere naam Vicky nahi!!!!
The chicks had no clue about the guys checking them and passing comments on them, so they kept walking. And these guys laughed their hearts out.
Guys that's a perfect example of "Freedom of Speech" Knowing a native foreign language in US is by far the biggest asset. It gives the power to express, private stuff in public, without catching anyone's attention.
I sometimes feel what's in USA and should go back to India. But guys now it's really difficult to leave this wonderful gift back in USA and go home. On a down side when surrounded by Indian community it sometimes gets frustrating to control oneself from expressing the emotions in public!!
On other hand, people who do not understand our language are irritated, and what else can they do, they know no head or tail of what we are talking?
I was once at the receiving end of 'Freedom of speech'.
On a boring Sunday evening, my roommate and I went out for Chinese dinner. It's a well known fact that the lady at the Chinese restaurant takes order in English and then passes it to the open kitchen behind her in Chinese!
Unfortunately that day we two were the only customer in the restaurant and it seemed the chapti (Chinese lady) did not care much about us as her customer. The lady was pissed on the guy working in kitchen (probably her husband). So they started arguing in Chinese at top of their voices. My roommate and me did not understand a word of their conversation and they kept torching us with their language until we were done with our meal. It was so annoying that at one point we felt like leaving the restaurant without paying!!!
Thus expressing in native language in public could be fun for one but definitely annoying for the other. Having said that, does it mean we should leave our freedom of expression and talk in English in public? Or should we ignore what others feel and enjoy our freedom?
posted by purvins at 9:04 PM
4 Comments:
the problem is when we use the freedom too much ... sometime back, we were giving gaalis to the service at a restaurant, do minute baad realise hua kii hum log desi khana khane aaye the :-(
abe praveer jaban pe lagam rakh... nahi to pitaga saala!!!!
Beware:
There is no freedom of speech on net.
kaushal:- did not know about it!!!!
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