US Blogger Thinks That Indians Are Poor And Cannot Afford iPhones, Gets Badly Trolled Online
A blogger from the US, by the name of Colleen was backpacking through India and apparently had a bad experience which caused her to lash out at Indians on social media.
Colleen is a yoga instructor, who lost her 5 month old iPhone while travelling through Jaipur. She shared her ordeal on Instagram and included a long caption where she mentioned about the poor hospitality in the city.
She also mentioned that Indians were too poor to afford iPhones. This is not simply but extremely offensive as well. Her post went viral, and she received a lot of flak for her post. She consequently deleted her post.
Read the full post in the screenshots uploaded here:
It went viral on Twitter too:
this so much colonizer cringe
(h/t daya subramanian on FB) pic.twitter.com/msdTF9rQqQ
— Hot Take Monger (@SanaSaeed) January 4, 2019
Colleen apparently apologized:
Her apology is somehow – inexplicably – worse (via @bibiareej) pic.twitter.com/6ILel3jTAA
— Hot Take Monger (@SanaSaeed) January 4, 2019
Check out the reactions:
1.
yoga iPhone X Becky’s apology is literally this pic.twitter.com/k8bQxSWMA2
— Hot Take Monger (@SanaSaeed) January 4, 2019
2.
I’m a brown person currently working an iPhone X to type this message. If I met Colleen in real life it would shock her so much that she’d stand up the normal way.
— Rob Mahal (@RobMahal) January 4, 2019
3.
Why is this MindBodyColleen even allowed to make a living off Yoga when she thinks India is such a poor dirty country and that Indians can't afford anything and have no brains? Why?
— Chitra (@MyBookJacket) January 5, 2019
4.
Wow. Just wow. This is so white, it's blinding. Just astounding how racist this person in India is being. Just, wow. https://t.co/05TJySMKcH
— Rajeev Mishra (@rajeevfilm) January 4, 2019
5.
"Hardly anyone in this country has an iPhone"
Read an article not long back from Apple saying how India alone has more than 10 million users of their mobiles lmao !!
Doubt all this even happened.
Star Plus Drama at its best. https://t.co/GaXzARmrd8— shawarmapapi (@moaizmq) January 4, 2019
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