spits for passports

It was a shoddy,rainy day. We got out of the train to have our first glimpse of Radebeul - a small town in the east of Germany. The railway station with tarpaulin sheds, the old-fashioned, huge and rigid structures made of those huge stones - all those typical of the erstwhile USSR. As we came out, we started asking around for directions to Mr Jaljhir Singh's Pizzareiha, where we intended to seek a summer job."Entschuldigen Sie..."(Excuse me)... and the old pot-bellied man was gone without even turning to us.We managed to get the whole sentence through with the second one we met- only got a cold, indifferent scorn in return.My friend growled:"He thinks we are creatures from Mars..What ppl these...racist b*******" .The third one was nice enuf to consider us human and give a cold "Ich weiss nicht"(I dont know). After many such attempts, we finally got to know from someone that we must cross the bridge and walk straight...My friend was already burning with indignation when the worse happened- A guy rushing past us spit ..YES -SPIT!! and it just missed my shoulders...."Racists of the 10th grade.....My uncle warned me of the damn thing the moment I decided to come to germany...Dunno how Iam going to live in peace here.....Narrow-minded a*******...blah blah blah..."..my friend kept cribbing and I kept silently , but strongly empathising all along...We finally reached the Pizzareiha and were informed that we could meet the chef only after an hour. We got introduced to the 3 Punjabis working there and began a conversation. On knowing we wanted part-time jobs, one of them quipped immediately: "Papers hai"?? (Papers - legal documents like passport, visa and tax card). "haan ji". ..."Tho mil sakhtha hai..chef se milo"...We were quite happy that we stood a chance. We discussed many things like our studies, germany knowledge, places we hail from and much more..and finally came to german girls. one of the guys asked me instantly:"kuch ladki vidki phasaaya bhai saab"?? "nahin ji...ab tak nahin"....."arre yaar...jaldi se jaldi ek phasaalo...aaraam se ghoomo...fir shaadi karo..passport mil jaayega" ...He said all this in one breath - absolutely no sense of shame in it. We discovered this was the general "strategy" of all of their kind. Somehow get into this country, get a passport and then get ur whole family here. Their chef had done it 15 yrs ago. They were here by his blessings - and will dutifilly carry on the "mission" . When the chef finally come out, we got to know that the position was already filled. The advertisement never vanished from the website. But the job was never vacant. It then got to me that the ad was actually an eye-wash...just to satisfy the government that he was still "searching" for a cleaner and to employ his farthest kin from punjab without "papers" for one-fourth the salary. There are many such ads...many such lost jobs...As we strolled back our way to the railway station, I was'nt bitching about the guy who tried to spit on me anymore...but was feeling ashamed of my fellow brown-skinned who,in the eyes of the "white-skinned" who spit on me, had left the scar of "unethical, money-minded parasites" on my "Race":)The only asian that the "white-skinned" knew was Jagjith Singh. Thanks a ton to the Jagjith Singhs for earning us taunts and spits in return for their passports....by the way, i dont have the right to blame jagjith singh because, afterall, i also DID try to get benifitted by him...the intention of this write-up is to show how foolish and superficial it is to dismiss all germans as "racists":)