Shaheen Afridi Gets Mocked By Australian Journalist After He Struggled To Speak In English

[Aiden]

https://www.republicworld.com/sports-news/cricket-news/shaheen-afridi-mocked-by-an-australian-journalist.html 

[sandeep]

That's exaggerated a bit.  Its just a tweet - rude and stupid no doubt.  These goddamn pink-skins have always been ignorant parochial bumpkins - I love how much they have to kiss Indian ass now that we rule cricket.  

[MCcricket]

This guy seems to enjoy the attention, I do recommend not to hack it or try communicating if you cant find words but be proud to speak your native tongue.

[Khota]

Speaking english does not make you a superior person. It is just another language.

[jf1gp_1]

Lets hear Tony speak in urdu. We asians keep seeking their approval no wonder they think they are superior. 

[express bowling]

Stupid Aussie journalist  !

 

Shaheen was not visiting Australia to do commentary in English.  

Edited December 7, 2019 by express bowling

[Ankit_sharma03]

he knws how to ball and thats enough 

[Norman]

It's actually our fault. And by "our" , I mean we desis. 

 

We are so obsessed with English that we tend to forget it's just a language. You always here desi parents saying "wah! Kitna pada likha hai mera bacha!" when there bacha says two English words. 

 

And then there are a few wannabe westerners (mostly youth) in our society, who speak as if Queen Elizabeth is their grandma and that too with people who speak the same language as them. No problem with this, but when they look down at people who actually value their mother tongue and called them "gawaar" and crap like that. Don't say I'm generalising because I've seen people do this multiple times at workplace and in other social gatherings. 

 

Here, Shaheen could've just spoken Urdu which he's comfortable with and had a translator but he probably thought that he'd be taken as an "illiterate" back home by doing so. 

[Gollum]

European and South American footballers often speak in their native tongue in interviews, cricket should be flexible enough to provide that opportunity of translation. Sportsman's job is to play, not learn foreign languages. Agree about many in our society looking down upon those who aren't fluent in English, angrez chale gaye aulad chor ke. 

Edited December 7, 2019 by Gollum

[Real McCoy]

13 hours ago, Khota said:

Speaking english does not make you a superior person. It is just another language.

Wow. for the first time I'm agreeing with you. Wow I'm in a state of shock

[Real McCoy]

I think these western journalists do this now and then to keep their name in the papers. Their will be a huge furor in the Aussie media over this and how this was racist and what not. Its just a thing to rile up the masses and keep the papers running. Actually the comment was not that bad actually. he basically said he couldn't understand a word he spoke. May not be racist or colonialist but definitely meant to create controversy and have the Aussie public engage in this media drama. Its basically infotainment for the masses.

[Khota]

12 minutes ago, Real McCoy said:

Wow. for the first time I'm agreeing with you. Wow I'm in a state of shock

Great. I hope we get to agree more in the future.Let us not forget this is a forum and we express our opinions freely. I for sure am not looking for approval from others. I just throw my stuff out there based on 4 or 5 sports I follow and come to some conclusions. I get lot of disagrees but I am who I am.

[Real McCoy]

2 minutes ago, Khota said:

Great. I hope we get to agree more in the future.Let us not forget this is a forum and we express our opinions freely. I for sure am not looking for approval from others. I just throw my stuff out there based on 4 or 5 sports I follow and come to some conclusions. I get lot of disagrees but I am who I am.

You have your right to your opinion but others have a right to disagree. But opening up random threads and restarting them when it has died down is asking for more rebuttals and dare I say attention   In a way the site admin should applaud your efforts at keeping this place going

[kirkutfan]

Shaheen should get credit for speaking in English, despite not being comfortable with it. He is trying to get better at something he is not good at. Meanwhile the  journalist has shown that he can’t learn anything- just happy being a smug little idiot.

[Khota]

4 hours ago, Real McCoy said:

You have your right to your opinion but others have a right to disagree. But opening up random threads and restarting them when it has died down is asking for more rebuttals and dare I say attention   In a way the site admin should applaud your efforts at keeping this place going

Attention is the last thing I seek. For the life of me I have never understood the concept of all rounder so I bring it up. You just cannot excel in two things, not at that level. That is why I bump up some of the old threads as a reminder. I have different views but I am very comfortable in my skin.

[MCcricket]

1 hour ago, Khota said:

Attention is the last thing I seek. For the life of me I have never understood the concept of all rounder so I bring it up. You just cannot excel in two things, not at that level. That is why I bump up some of the old threads as a reminder. I have different views but I am very comfortable in my skin.

So what was Kallis, Botham, Kapil, Klusener, they r rare but worth their weight in Gold, believe if Sachin had more mental fortitude he would have been in the list of great all rounders as well

[Khota]

2 hours ago, MCcricket said:

So what was Kallis, Botham, Kapil, Klusener, they r rare but worth their weight in Gold, believe if Sachin had more mental fortitude he would have been in the list of great all rounders as well

And you prove my point. 100 years of Indian cricket and that is the only name that comes up all the time.

[Texy]

Im with padosi casanova on this one.... who's this loser aussie journalist...as someone said the fault lies with DESIS and their inferior mind 

[Vilander]

13 minutes ago, Texy said:

DESIS

who the * are these ? i see a pakistani being mocked.

[Zero_Unit]

i have no doubt if that journalist tried to speak in hindi/urdu/etc, we would not understand a single word either.