Indians always talking on their phones

Why are fish always on their cell phones?

Indians are very social and like to keep in touch with family members, so a phone is useful. Sometimes I wish my own family were into talking all the time too because I live in a foreign country and get lonely.

I don't see why Indians would be different from any other nationality. It's epidemic where I live, cutting across sex, race and class lines.

There's keeping in touch, and then there is the pathological need to keep talking.

There's looking at your phone a lot, and texting, which is universal, but Indians do seem to spend a lot of time of their phone.

I notice it a lot on public transport. They spend the whole trip yapping away. They finish one call to then scroll through their phone and make another call. It's very strange.

Southern Europeans are very family orientated, but I don't see them stuck talking on their phones all the time.

F&F this shit.

We noticed you too OP.

Stop watching us.

WTF? The real question is why is EVERYBODY always on their friggin' phones?

My mother will call four or five people consecutively and tell them all the same story.

OP, I've noticed that DL OPs are becoming increasingly offensive. What is your theory about that? Maybe some Trump trickledown?

My dad is Indian (so I guess I am too?) and it's 100% true, in his case. He LOVES the phone. He calls all his indian relatives and has long, involved, dramatic conversations with them. When two Indians are on the phone, it's like a game of chicken to see who quits first. Nobody wants to be first. But he doesn't only call family. Business associates, colleagues, friends, anyone. Everyone. These calls go on forever and he will do a bunch, back to back but the most annoying part is how LOUD he is. He has a weirdly specific phone voice that recognizable because it carries through THE WHOLE HOUSE WHEN HE IS TALKING.

(It's so annoying. You have no idea.)

Kidding aside, if you want me to posit a real sociological theory, what I would say to you is this: think about the last time you met a super shy, soft spoken Indian person.

See!? That's because there aren't that many- at least that I know of. Every race/population/society has a balance of introverts to extroverts but I feel strongly that most indians are naturally extroverted.

That means more talking. And more talking means more talking ON THE PHONE.

Why are fags always getting AIDS?

Thanks for the insight R11, much appreciated.

R12, Easy--they're thinking with their cocks.

There's two reasons for this Op. Firstly, their jobs entail taking calls. This used to be done exclusively in call centers, but now can be done on cell phones. Secondly, they're on the phone longer repeating themselves because no one can understand their accents.

OP Where do you see Indians talking on their phone? In the U.S. or on other countries as well? I recently stayed in London where you can see many people who I guess are Indians, but could be from Pakistan or Sri Lanka as well, and didn't see this at all. Also OP, why do you care? Do you not like people who look different than you? My beef are taxi drivers who talk on the phone, then can't remember the address you gave them. (Happened twice yesterday.)

I have two degrees in Anthropology and I assure you, Op, nobody gives a shit.

Is OP the same racist that posted about blacks backing into parking spaces? Stop thinking in stereotypes, dickhead.

R17 - I also have 2 degrees in anthropology (Rutgers and New York University) and find R11's comments fascinating. I notice it more in the morning on the East Coast because it's evening in India. My friend has to call many members of his extended family daily. Even if he has nothing to say. It's sort of a social obligation. Luckily the rates to call India are virtually free.

As the older first generation immigrants die, I imagine this will stop. That tie to relatives in India will weaken. In a way it is also a factor of cheap prices of phone calls. My parents in the 1970s could barely afford to call relatives in Canada because long distance rates were so high. My mom wrote many letters to aunts and cousins. Phone calls were limited to Thanksgiving, Christmas and birthdas, and they were kept short. My mom would have loved skype, texting and virtually free international calling.

[quote]Stop thinking in stereotypes, dickhead.

Cultures are different, with different ways of doing things.

Not acknowledging that is racist.

r20 is right. Observing cultural differences is not the same as racism.

Jamaicans are the biggest over users. I work in a town with tons of Jamaicans - they are always on their phones - one woman takes your oder while having her headphones in. BTW, Jamaicans rudest, laziest culture ever - the whole idea of they work three jobs - yea, because they can't do one very well. (

Cultural observation? Oh give me a break R21. Any real "cultural observation" would have a scientific basis, not inane random observations from some doofus. Look, if I started topics like "Why do blacks have so much rhythm?" or "Why are Irish always drunk?" or "Why do gays always butt in line?" people would be offended, and rightly so. As a minority one would think gays would be sensitive to moronic stereotyping. You should be ashamed of trying to defend it.

Oh, lighten up you big fucking bore, R23.

It's about telephone usage ...and 'observation'.

No need for you to get your panties in their humorless twist.

[quote]Any real "cultural observation" would have a scientific basis,

R23, is as dumb as a box of rocks.

[R23] might be a bit neurotic but it's fact that the United Nations announced that more Indians have mobile phones than static toilets.

(they take their mobiles while excreting in the street and/or defecating in their rivers)

Group culture/mentality. To be out of touch, not connected to family/friends, even for a few minutes is frightening. Therefore, they constantly either on the phone or scrolling looking for someone to connect with.

[R23] You are the racist. Cultures are different.

Definition of the word culture: "the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group; also :the characteristic features of everyday existence (such as diversions or a way of life) shared by people in a place or time"

^ Unfortunately the Marxists amongst us want to eliminate cultural differences so we're all homogenised to be the same.

Marxists love Social Engineering.

White Westerners are so racist they think everyone behaves exactly the way they do.

Well, my family is a mix of Spanish Caribbean and Southern African American. They all talk, a lot. My mother calls people and will have the same conversation with 5 of them, back to back. I get random phone calls from distant relatives regularly and I assume that they hang up with me and call the next person on the list immediately after. Sometimes it's annoying, but I truly value having 1st, 2nd, 3rd cousins and elderlies that I'm just as familiar with as my immediate family.

R22, fuck yourself. I feel sorry for anyone that ever has to provide a service to you. Make your own food, lazy cunt.

R32 obviously is a frau trying to be a SJW but all she really shows is that she has no experience with Jamaicans, who also represent one of the most homophobic nations in the world, right up there with the Middle East "we'll fuck anything but publicly cut gay people's heads off."

R32 also is one of those lazy shits who reflexively posts "I feel sorry for" because she can't do anything with an original thought. Also it seems absurd to suggest that complaining about bad, rude service means that a person is lazy. Obviously R32 either is an "urban" sympathizer or, more likely, just another fat DL poor-them weeper.

Oh. Here she is!

Uh huh...or I'm the poster at r31, who has plenty of experience with Jamaicans and other Caribbean people. Like I said in my post, my allegedly homophobic cultured immediate and distant family call me ALL the time. How many times does your phone ring a day? Lonely WASP with no culture knows no culture.

They all work in IT and Call Call Centers and they plot 24/7 on how to displace US workers. Just wait for that nuclear exchange between Pakistan and India , things will be right after that

OP You forgot to add LOUDLY!

OP everyone is addicted to their phone, I know a few people who have 2 phones and use them constantly. You can also ask why are Millennials always looking at their phones.

The need to be,constantly connected is a generational thing, more than cultural. If kids aren't talking on their phones, they're playing Candy Crush.

Op is always on his phone

Yes, Indians are forevskys on their phones yelling at their slave about having dinner ready or she will receive 13 lashes

We butt in line?

WOW look at all those Indians in R41 post!

They are the mobile talent for the Help Centah Call Centah

[quote]Indians always talking on their phones

We should all be thankful they're not using those nasty, smelly smoke signals anymore.

OP here. I'm in Melbourne, and there are a lot of new arrival Indians.

Whilst most people are addicted to their phones, mostly texting, surfing social media and wearing their headphones, it seems mostly to be Indians to be talking on their phone, and rather loudly too.

R43 OP here again. My point is Indians TALKING on their phones in public.

Indians are all crazy and greedy.

Who knows and who cares.

Are we talking feather or dot?

R4, I've noticed exactly that same thing.

Also wondered about cab drivers and mail delivery people. ALWAYS on the fuckin phone. How do they have an endless supply of people willing to gab on the phone all throughout the work day? I have a lot of friends, and only one of them still likes to gab forever on the phone, in this, the Age of Texting.

R6, don't be ridiculous. There are certain behaviors or customs that are typical of certain demographics. It's not a negative or a positive, it just is. Unclench, for fuck's sake.

There's a group of Indian women who walk up and down my street eveyday like clockwork. Maybe ten times up and back. They are all on their cells talking. They don't interact with themselves. It's kinda funny to watch.

The reason people talk loudly is that your voice is not fed into your own earpiece like with traditional phones. If handsets did that people would talk more softly. Try talking softly sometime ; people hear you just as well. I'm looking at you, Indians!

But Indians also talk loudly as they come from loud crowded cultures. Habit I'd say as I'm sure Indian Americans aren't the same as immigrants.

R52 Here;'s the product those Indian women are talking about !!!!

Does the vaginal tightening gel work for the other hole too? Asking for a friend.

R55 , apparently a more intense level of intervention is needed for laxity in that orifice

It's the thing with people from a warm/hot climate - never-ending talking (I also love conversation but come on...), loud talking. I mean comparatively, not all. Although I have no clue why many Indians take it to the next level. Maybe certain cultures do not have that common sentiment that loud talking in public, confined space is disagreeable.

I'm not saying this as necessarily negatively (although I'm no fan of it, regardless of someone's ethnicity). Some people find such culture as very warm, open, friendly and/or comfortable.

In their home country they have to talk loud to be heard over the livestock in their city streets

The noise pollution they are causing is a step up over the air pollution they once caused when they used smoke signals.

From what I’ve seen, the OP’s statement is very accurate – although I would also like answers from an anthropologist as to why this occurs so often.

To the people saying “mind your own business” - well, we would, if they would. When somebody is talking loudly on the phone in a public place, it becomes everybody’s business. Most people have the common sense and manners to avoid making a spectacle out of their phone calls. There seems to be very little regard for their fellow humans with people who loudly out-talk everybody in the room, and show no remorse. I don’t know if it’s a severe lack of self-awareness? Or maybe they just don’t give a damn. Of course it isn’t exclusively Indian people who do this, there are culprits in any race. But the fact cant’ be ignored that Indians don’t seem to care about the giant production they make during loud phone calls.

For a few months I was transferred to Cupertino CA for work, and my main form of transportation was via cab (because the company paid for it). Then, I was transferred for a month to Las Vegas – also took cabs everywhere. I’m not exaggerating when I say that 95% of the drivers were Indian, and 100% of them were loudly talking on a Bluetooth device during the entire cab ride. I’m not really one for small talk, so I didn’t care. But I did find it unusual that ALL of them did this exact same thing. Now the other 5% of drivers I had that were other races – they were never on their phones at all.

Also, I would like to mention that the company credit card was hijacked no less than 3 times over a few months, and each time was directly after I’d taken a cab ride. Two of them were to bail someone out of Jail in India. The other was to purchase a big-screen TV (in India).

Next comes the convenience store, gas station, and liquor store owners. In these areas (as well as where I live now), many of the workers / owners are Indian… and they are ALWAYS on the phone, talking very fast and nonstop. Is it all an act so they don’t have to interact with customers? Now again, it’s not that I care so much about them blabbering… it’s that while they blabber, they completely neglect their stores and their customers. Stock will be low or empty, coffee not made, shelves and floors dirty. At what other jobs could you expect to get away with something like that, while you talk on the phone? It’s negligent, and it isn’t good business.

And last but not least, all the ones calling the OP racist… Are you completely oblivious to the fact that stereotypes are very often CORRECT? And since when does stating the obvious about a group instantly mean someone is “against” them? The OP’s question did not in any way imply they “hate” Indian people because they’re always talking on the phone. It was a simple statement and question from their observations in life!! Why do people feel the need to turn it around and imply it was racist? That’s just laughable.

Personally, I hate the word stereotype, because people fly off the rails when the word is mentioned. Dear linguists, please work on a word that sums up the phrase “statement that applies to the majority of a group, but excludes a few”.

R60 needs a psychiatric intervention.

My Indian mother once drove past a house where she saw fencing that she liked , so she stopped to knock on the door to find out who did the work and got the number of the homeowner from an elderly woman (I assume the homeowners mother) who lived there. My mother went home, and called this other woman who she had never met and proceeded to have a conversation that lasted about 30 min. Not about the information she wanted (that was exchanged just as the conversation was ending), but everything else under the sun. Maybe it's a genetic thing?

Though, those genes may have skipped me because I can barely last 5 minutes on a phone call with people I actually know. Also my mother is super embarrassing.