Indians Too Poor to Buy iPhone, Says U.S. Blogger provoking RageTop Stories

January 05, 2019 11:52
Indians Too Poor to Buy iPhone, Says U.S. Blogger provoking Rage

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An American travel blogger and yoga instructor is under criticism over her negative remarks over Indians in her Instagram post.

The post said Indians are too poor to purchase an iPhone and that someone in "the poorest most overcrowded country" was likely to return his/her lost iPhone X.

The 24-year-old blogger Grady, hailing from Indianapolis, Indiana, lost her expensive five-month-old iPhone X on the streets of Jaipur which she described as "the most scammy tourist cities in all of India". She also added that she didn't expect to get her device back since it was "worth more money than some people in this country will have in their whole lifetime". She also vented out her frustration saying anyone who finds it "probably would not even know what to do with it."

However, the social media in India did not contend with it. Galore users found the American blogger's statement as "condescending" and said it resembled "colonial hangover".

Grady, however, deleted her post but even her account is facing backfire. However, screenshots of her post had gone viral on Twitter by then and the Twitterati targeted her for her ignorance and even threatened to boycott brands of they did not stop working with the American blogger.

The woman later apologized for the post, saying: "I am sorry that my words did not give clarity to the intentions in sharing my story. I had no intentions to belittle the Indian culture. The moral of the story was the blessings and gratitude I had for the Indian people who helped me in a moment of panic when losing my phone in a foreign country. I apologize the most for the amount of pure hate that this has pulled out of so many people's hearts and spread around the world."

"Ask yourself - If you found a smart phone device on the street locked, out of service, broken, no buttons and the software is not in your native language: would it be easy for you to find the owner and return it? For me, the answer is no. I think most of us would agree the answer is no. This has nothing to do with race, ethnicity, class, education, etc." she said in defence.

-Sowmya Sangam

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