Shilpa Shetty faces racism in Australia, shares the incident in an ang

Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty's latest
Instagram post has got a lot of attention
and if we may say so, it's for all the right
reasons. The actress who was travelling
from Sydney to Melbourne was mistreated
because of her skin colour. It's not the first
time that one has heard Indians facing
racism in Australia, this time around Shilpa
made sure to voice it out and share the
incident everyone. It all started when the
actress was checking in at the Sydney
airport and a ground staff misbehaved with
her. It all didn't end there as the actress
later had to face racism as well. In her
Instagram post, Shilpa called out the airline
brand and pointed out the bad behaviour
of its stuff.
Shilpa wrote, "Subject: #Quantas airways
@qantas
This should get your attention!
Travelling from Sydney to Melbourne and at
the check in counter met a grumpy #Mel
( that's her name)who decided it was "OK
to speak curtly to "US ( Brown people!!)
travelling together ,I was flying business
and had 2 bags (my allowance)and she
insisted and decided my half empty Duffel
bag was oversized( to check in!!) So she
sent us to check it in at the other counter
dealing with "Oversized luggage ..there a
Polite lady(yes this one was) said ..this
ISN'T an oversized bag, pls check this in
manually if u can at another counter ( all
this happening while the counter is going
to shut in 5 mins) As the manual check in
wasn't going thru for 5 mins( we tried) I
went upto #Mel and requested her to put
the bag thru as her colleague said it wasn't
an oversized bag.. She refused again.. Just
being adamant especially when I told her
this is causing a lot of inconvenience .. We
had no time to waste so we ran to the
oversized baggage counter and requested
her to put the bag through which she did
after I told her that #Rude #Mel had
issues !!!... to which another colleague
joined in an reiterated my duffle wasn't
oversized and could've easily been checked
in.
Back in 2007, when Shilpa was doing
celebrity reality show, Big Brother, that time
too actress faced racist remarks but she left
everyone shut after winning the show.
More power to you, Shilpa!

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Just to play victim card and gain sympathy, she shouts Racism Racism. That was just an ill-behaved air hostess. Such a drama queen. BB is long back over and she needs to get over it.

Racism is subjective sort of. I met some hillbilly racists and you can tell they've a stick up their ass just because of your colour. But how do you prove it?

Imagine if they treat business class passengers like that, how would they be treating the economy class. Shudder

Originally posted by: nigahen

Racism is subjective sort of. I met some hillbilly racists and you can tell they've a stick up their ass just because of your colour. But how do you prove it?

There're some white folks still in the world esp in airlines and airports where you dont really have a choice to take your business elsewhere who feel upset that they've to serve brown coolie Indians.

I saw her insta. It wasnt attention seeking at all. More like she point out to Qantas that they ought to give their employees lessons in customer engagement.

This is irrelevant to Shilpa's experience. But yes some parts of Australia are extremely racist like the US. It's not surprising considering what they did to the Aborigine people.

Honestly the amount of times, I have been told that I am "randomly" selected for a thorough check at an Australian airport is ridiculous. Even though it may seem this incident is not racist, the air staff wouldn't have been rude to her if she weren't brown as simple as that. The colour of skin really translated to how they treat people.

Just that one thing people should be aware of, Australians are the most racist bunch out there

Haaye bechari. Yeh jahan jaati hai (mostly the Queen's countries), iske saath racism hota hai.

That bag does seem to be oversized. But ofcourse, the airport authorities know better. Also, no excuse for rudeness. That's life though. You bump into such folks every now and then.