Living here in San Francisco, California I have to unfortunately agree. They bring their racist caste system beliefs here and perpetuate the most horrendous treatment towards people of color.
My company has global offices across the world. The racism complaints I deal with from India are much higher than anywhere else. America has its issues and is racist as fuck, but we don’t have a group literally called “untouchables”. I’ll be the first to say the extreme caste racism was probably made infinitely worse with colonialism, but that doesn’t change that’s it’s the most inwardly racist culture I’ve personally seen.
And there are so many Indians on Reddit. I see Indian subreddits all the time.
When Ghandi was in South Africa he fought for the rights of Indians, to be classified as a better race then blacks, and coloureds. Because how dare his people be compared to savages.
While true for Gandhi's early life, by the time he left South Africa his views had changed dramatically and he advocated for full equality for all races.
That's the thing about Gandhi, he was able to learn and change his point of view over time. There isn't just one Gandhi for all time, forever.
Racism in general is inherently systemic, not a single human is born racist. “If you can convince the lowest white man (or Indian) he’s better than the best colored man (or a lower caste), he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” - Lyndon B. Johnson
Shit is so awful it makes American racism look quaint.
My beef is when they bring that bullshit to the states. Like "Nah nigga I ain't playin this game with you. Take that shit back to Bangladesh."
Bad enough we gotta deal with the Dominican Delusion.
Nothing against Indians at all, but that caste shit needs to stay in the subcontinent.
The caste system isn't based on race. It's based on ancestral profession. You have people of the same ethnic group belonging to different castes. India has made caste-based discrimination illegal and there is a system of affirmative-action for the historically disenfranchised.
Her parents are from the upper caste in India. Do you think they did not bring that shit to the US? I went to high school in Western North Carolina with an Indian girl. Her father was a doctor and her mother a lawyer. They were the only Indians in town. She treated any of us who were not of her socio-economic class like shit. So yeah they bring that shit here.
dude, literally every homogenous country is racist as fuck. Everyone likes to think it is specific to the u.s/white people and that their are utopias for people of color elsewhere in the world, well there is if you look like that countries population, not so much if you are different unless you are in a western country (for the most part).
The irony of you stereotyping 1bn+ people worldwide, whilst discussing racism, is hilarious. Not to mention that Usha is a US citizen who was born and raised in American culture.
You literally have no idea what her cultural experience was like growing up though. Let alone assigning an idiotic statement like “Indians are some of the most racist people I’ve ever met” as being appropriate.
I work for a company owned by Indians and went out to lunch with my (Indian) boss one day and he saw another Indian dude and was like “See that guy? We are enemies.”
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