The filthy Indian rojak hawker

I sent the following email to World Toilet Organisation today:

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Dear Sir/Madam

I watched the video your organisation uploaded on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AWMBdsBpGJk) and was very disturbed by it.

I was however not disturbed because the video suggests that hawkers ply their business without properly washing their hands after using the toilet, but because the video seems to stereotype Indian hawkers.

I wonder why you did this. Perhaps the incident in Geylang Serai Cooked Food Stalls's rojak incident which could be still fresh in people's minds is something that you wanted to tap on.  But that is unfortunate besides being inaccurate, as the food poisoning in that instance happened not because of bad toilet habits, but because of rats (http://www.asiaone.com/Health/News/Story/A1Story20090409-134377.html).

The video is also inaccurate as most Indians do not use toilet-papers to clean up after themselves (as your video suggests), but they use water.

You could have easily used a Chinese chicken rice seller for the video and it would have been more appropriate, as the majority of hawkers in Singapore are Chinese, and also because Chicken Rice is a dish popular with all Singaporeans regardless of their ethnicity.

By depicting Indians in this manner, you may have inadvertently reinforced the perception (if any) that 'Indians are dirty' and/or that Indian rojak is filthy.