Handbags and Gladrags

I strongly believe that young people in the developed countries are a thoroughly spoiled lot who just do not understand or sympathize with anything beyond their comfort levels. Read THIS. India has almost half as many states than the USA and the languages spoken in each state are totally different from one another and one accent is totally different from each other. In my college we had professors who had different accents and our Indian brains absorbed each accent without even a twitch of a muscle. I am currently enrolled for a course which has students from South East Asia and we have tutors from USA, Canada, Australia, England and Germany. All our tutors have different accents. My German tutor is actually half French. It takes us south east asians maybe a day to get adjusted to accents and to understand what is being taught in class. Maybe if all the lazy cribbers in THIS article actually tried to open their brain to what was being taught and tried to know their TA better, it would be easier? On more than one occassion I have met Americans (and mind you it is mostly the Americans who crib so much, I haven't met one Brit who complains about the punjabi accent of his friendly neighbourhood grocery store owner) who will just not get what I am saying because I am *foreign* and hence must be swinging from the trees when I'm not in the land of opportunity. Bah! Complaining and making feeble excuses seems to be the lot of young people in the USA, not to say that young Indian students don't do it. However, I really doubt any national daily would print such a nonsensical article about a non-issue.

Another point, most people in the developed world tell me that there are lesser students in their engineering and science courses and there are more asians in these courses. Its a simple explanation. Asians know that hard work is the way to a better life. They are used to countries without social security and science and engineering require hard, hard labour. I would not be surprised if very soon most faculties world over would consist of atleast 80% asians. So non-asians should just suck it and try understanding Taiwanese, Indian and Chinese accents. If you can adapt to eating raw fish with horse-radish, maybe you can adapt to understanding what the person who made it is talking about. Non?