Ravi Ganti.
I went to college in Chapel Hill , NC . Most of the people I met in the surrounding cities of Durham and Raleigh were friendly but some of them, on getting to know that I planned to work in the US after school , were like “Are you here to take our jobs ?” . I don’t feel the same sentiment up here in the DMV area but on one occasion, when I was out in Shirlington , I was yelled at by a man asking me to leave the country for taking his job and reprimanding the girl who was with me for going out with a Muslim, calling us names . He also asked me to show my papers , all of this from the opposite side of a street. A few months later , an engineer like me was shot and killed in a bar in Kansas city and his killer shared the same feeling . I do read online and also hear about such experiences from some of my Indian friends . We care too much about survival and have assumed limited identities otherwise where did all of our sensitivity towards other humans ( let alone other forms of life ) disappear ?
