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[quote=CindyBindy]I pretty much made an account at this forum because I read this thread. Actually, because I read a bunch of virulent anti-Indian racist threads on this forum and decided I ought to register because clearly, this place is bundles of fun. By the way, I'm an Indian-American female. Hi!

Racial prejudice exists in India, but not to a greater extend than half the globe. You'll find that outside of Western nations, political correctness exists in different ways. In Brazil, African-origin/African-mixed Brazilians will joke openly about their "nappy hair" or laugh when white Brazilians joke about it. I've seen this happen. In Beijing, my Chinese cab driver told me that he hated giving black people rides because "they look like monkeys." I speak Mandarin extremely well so I do not think I misunderstood him.

I've been to Middle-eastern countries a million times and cannot measure the insane level of Arab ethno-centrism I've seen. Not just in the UAE but the entire Gulf. There are many Arabs (but adamantly not ALL Arabs) who despise anyone with darker skin, and have a special kind of distaste for non-Arab Muslims. Indians and Pakistanis bear the brunt of this discrimination because there are so many of them in the Middle-East.

And lest we think it's only those third world people hating on each other, let's not forget that since the recession began in America, our own homegrown white power movements are steadily growing: http://www.civilrights.org/publications/hatecrimes/white-supremacist.html

Another myth is that Indian society is homogeneous. I've never heard anything so ignorant in my entire life. Well apart from the idea that India is one of the least racially tolerant countries in the world. India, for those of you who confine your cultural knowledge to the Anglosphere, is basically Europe. It was cobbled together from kingdoms that had existed for centuries and were extremely distinct from each other - their languages were as different from each other as Spanish is from German (even more so, because while those languages share the Latin script, Indian languages [i]do not[/i] share scripts), their clothes were different, literally everything was different. And the Indian population is made up of a huge variety of ethnicities, including Indians of Arab, Persian, European, Jewish, Afghan, and African descent.

Speaking of Judaism in India. It's existed in the country for centuries without once experiencing anti-Semitism. The two recorded times that did happen, the anti-Semitism was by Portuguese traders in Kerala (they destroyed a synagogue - the Hindu maharaja rebuilt it for the Calicut Jews), and recently in 2008 when Pakistani terrorists attacked Indian Jews in Mumbai. I don't think America has such a clean record, does it?

Now, if you're asking if there is a general lack of exposure to different nations in the modern world, that's true, because as vast as the Indian middle class is, it's not affluent enough to travel. There will be stereotypes about peoples they only know about through movies or novels or the media. However, there is a huge leap from that to, "the least racially tolerant country". Racial ignorance does [i]not[/i] equate to racial intolerance. I've seen how friendly and polite Indians are to foreigners - even less "glamorous" foreigners like Africans or Arabs, who have the misfortune to carry bad stereotypes - with my own eyes. And in fact, being white will only help you in India. They'll think you're rich.

Maybe next time you get the urge to spew misinformed bs, you'll take a minute to pause and educate yourself first? Good luck.[/quote]

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