Among the europeans I found many were
German tourists here in Jaipur so much so that you will find Indian
tourguides speaking german fluently and even writing on their
tuktuks.
“Even Apel Doorn Bellen” “Lekker
Weertje?” “Ik ben goedkoeper dan de hema!” “Klaar is kees”
As per googles translate which still
leaves me a bit confused...
Google translate is quite a godsent if
you were to get a datapackage or the blackberry package for your
smart phone you could just log in and it will broken translate for
you into hindi!
Anyways coming from Germany you would
find these tourists in the 5 star hotels because their currency is
much stronger than the rupee, the British though seemed to like the 4
stars maybe because they were stingy, or in dire financial crisis. We
found that some were behaving like they still ruled India in the way
they carried themselves, treating Indian staff rudely and somewhat
racist, shame. At the pasta station at one of the hotels the chef
naturally conversed with me in Hindi to which I was as usual mumbling
and hinting to speak in english, while waiting for my order he asked
where I was from and so I mentioned to him I was from Durban, South
Africa which held the largest concentrations of Indians outside
India, amazed at this quirky fact a prying, crinkled skinned English
patron in her 60s decided to join in the conversation, she was rather
surprised and blindingly racist said “i would have thought we had
the most amount of Indians in Britain” the chef and I did not find
this as hilarious as she did but I gave her a blank laugh, just at
her stupidity which apart from being racist was actually referring to
those from Pakistan.
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