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
— Sana Saeed (@SanaSaeed) January 4, 2019
Colleen apparently apologized:
Her apology is somehow – inexplicably – worse (via @bibiareej) pic.twitter.com/6ILel3jTAA
— Sana Saeed (@SanaSaeed) January 4, 2019
Check out the reactions:
1.
yoga iPhone X Becky’s apology is literally this pic.twitter.com/k8bQxSWMA2
— Sana Saeed (@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.
https://twitter.com/MyBookJacket/status/1081388999044870146
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.
https://twitter.com/moaizmq/status/1081254666032209925
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