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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]13:39 - First generation means YOU immigrated; 2nd generation means your parents did. 3rd generation is if your grandparents did.

OP, I have truly never heard that kind of racist talk from South Asians who grew up here.  (DH and I are lawyers, and our Indian friends tend to be in public service; most of our friends aren't the traditional doctor/engineer. It's more of a liberal group, so maybe that has something to do with it.)

I have definitely heard that kind of language from my parents' friends (though not my parents, thank goodness).  It's a little ridiculous. The immigrants I spend time with are older, so I don't know how much of that is a function of when they came here.

I do know that my cousins and family in India do hold some racist ideas.  They probably have interacted with 1 black person in their lives (collectively!), so there definitely seems to be more of a media bias than we think there is.  I'm not sure what to do about that. I do set them straight whenever they say anything obnoxious.

You should call them on it! It's not ok to talk like that. [/quote]

Nope....1st generation means the first generation to be born here. The immigrants are called immigrants. [/quote]

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