PepsiCo's global president and chief financial officer, Indra Nooyi, stirred up controversy on May 15 2005 when, during a speech to the graduating class of Columbia Business School, she used an analogy equating the United States to the middle finger. Many Americans viewed the comments as insulting and unpatriotic.
Click here to see the full text of her speech.
The very fact that a large number of Indians have preferred to adopt America as their country, and have gone ahead to take citizenship there, amply testifies to their undying love and patriotic fervour for America. Indra Nooyi, a hardcore Indian American, compared in all earnestness, USA with middle finger which is the strongest and the largest in the human hand in consonance with the superpower status of USA.
The hue and cry caused by the Bloggers against the lady, questioning her loyalty to America, seems to be rather unreasonable. In case such comments would have been made by an original American, the same would have gone without a whimper of protest. There should not be any discrimination among US citizens on the basis of caste, creed, color and country of origin. There is need for more tolerance, mutual respect and understanding at all levels and fragments of the American society. The Americans have to overcome the new-fangled environment of suspicion after 9/11 and take the world along with them in order to spontaneously maintain their leadership in the civil society.
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