Isn't it incredibly ironic that middle-class people who have been born and brought up in a developing country can be so terribly well-read, well-bred, well-mannered and polite despite the 'inadequate education', I quote, they have received, whereas some rich hypocrite who claims to have received a better quality of education from some fancy foreign school and university displays behaviour which is abominable and disgusting, by asking blatantly blunt questions, in a quest to prove his financial superiority over the other--an attempt to make the other person feel inferior?
Isn't it self-explanatory that at least decency, if not aristocratic behaviour, is expected from one who receives what he considers the 'best form of education'? Nope, it isn't evidently. Because what you learn is not dependent on where you study, or even what you study. It's all about perspective, and attitude.
So even if you study in some fancy school and an even better university, and you live in a palatial house, and own a private jet, and can take a cruise in the middle of the year if you so please, at the end of the day you're a smaller person with ABSOLUTELY NO SCRUPLES WHATSOEVER, than your counterpart who is temporarily in what you consider 'a developing country'--a truth that is facaded under the veils of patriotism that suddenly emerges out of nowhere, when you crave the authentic experience of sambar-vadais and Tamil cinema.
So if you think that your financial superiority is a sanction that you are a better, and bigger person, then at least help yourself. Go read Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, and learn a bit about the non-materialistic and the aesthetic ways of living sans a private jet and a million people waiting at your beck and call, whom you take for granted, as opposed to the flamboyance that you display coupled with the inflammatory statements you enjoy making and the un-required questions asked not out of concern, but only with the mala-fide intention of attempting to make people feel inferior.
:D
Oh, and now that this is out of me, I call a truce now.
