A scene from London underground train this Friday. Its rush hour so people are quite literally squashed together. An idiot, and I must specify - an Asian looking man, gets in and does not take off his back pack which in the crowded train means he is bumping everyone around him with his bag and occupying place of 2 people instead of one. Another passenger, this time a white guy, ask him to take his backpack off quite politely. This idiot turns around and calls him racist.
Racist! Do people even know the meaning of thag word or is it a white looking person says anything to a non-white person is racism? In the mean time the non-white person can hurl abuse at a white person and yet not be a racist (yes, that happens quite often too)?
Racism is discriminating other human based on their race. In my experience, we Indians are one of the racist race. We have a "name" for each and every race (chinki, kalu, gora) and we openly hurl them at people who look different than us. We do this not only in India but even when in their country. And yet we call others racist! By what right?
We discriminate solely based on skin colour within our race and outside our race- white being good, dark shades are treated badly. Not that we leave fair skin alone. A colleague of mine, who incidentally married a French woman, hurls such bad abuses for white people when he is amongst Indian crowd. Somehow, it makes him cooler with Indian crowd. It makes me want to vomit.
Yes, racism is alive and well. But I think its more prevalent amongst us than others. We are so openly racist and yet if you say this to an Indian person they look at me as if I am mad. How can an Indian be racist? You see, only white person can be a racist.
Racist! Do people even know the meaning of thag word or is it a white looking person says anything to a non-white person is racism? In the mean time the non-white person can hurl abuse at a white person and yet not be a racist (yes, that happens quite often too)?
Racism is discriminating other human based on their race. In my experience, we Indians are one of the racist race. We have a "name" for each and every race (chinki, kalu, gora) and we openly hurl them at people who look different than us. We do this not only in India but even when in their country. And yet we call others racist! By what right?
We discriminate solely based on skin colour within our race and outside our race- white being good, dark shades are treated badly. Not that we leave fair skin alone. A colleague of mine, who incidentally married a French woman, hurls such bad abuses for white people when he is amongst Indian crowd. Somehow, it makes him cooler with Indian crowd. It makes me want to vomit.
Yes, racism is alive and well. But I think its more prevalent amongst us than others. We are so openly racist and yet if you say this to an Indian person they look at me as if I am mad. How can an Indian be racist? You see, only white person can be a racist.
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