Returned to Bangalore, India

Our protagonist is a Chinese-American who is visiting Bangalore on work. Now, he has never been to India before, so he is very excited and wants to visit the various tourist spots in and around Bangalore during weekends and whenever he finds the time. The first weekend, he goes off to the Bannerghatta national park, mainly to see the elephants. And what happens there is something that happens to a lot of foreigners visiting India. While they are interested in the sights, they in turn become the sights themselves! The general jantha gets excited/curious about them and wants to either talk to them or take pics with them!! Initially, he was a little amused, but after a couple of hours of this, it started getting to him. It would have gotten to me, if I were stared at in a foreign land. Anyway, he goes through this for that day and is back at his hotel, where he replays the different conversations he has had with the locals. And realizes that most of them wanted to know if he was from the US of A or not. And more often than not, they were mostly excited to talk to him when he said he was an American! So, he comes up with a plan for his next outing.

On Saturday morning, he is off to Mysore. And when he gets off at the palace, he again starts getting some glances and some of them want to chat him up. But this time around, when they ask him, “So, where are you from?” He says, “China” and smiles. And people are not as interested in him as they were when he said ‘the USA’. So, he gets to go about sight-seeing much more easily. I just don’t know why it occurred to him that all the extra attention was because he was an American. And now, he is getting to tour more peacefully. Well, whatever works!

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