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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hate the term biopic, but of course guys is a consideration. I am Indian American, born here. We value diversity in our family. We live in a country where race has become electrified. See the comments by JD about Usha and how Indians are made fun of on social media, how Trump refers to immigrants as illegals, and how her ghoulishly depicted the House Majority Leader inexplicably wearing a sombrero. I’m disgusted by many of the comments here, but clearly I’ve been deluding myself that the higher educated DCUM population is reasonable and not racist. Glad to see there are some white students who care to mix with others. [/quote]

But, Indians and Indian-Americans are not BIPOCs.[/quote]

Why?  Are they white?  BIPOCs are basically all non-white.  [/quote]

Indians are not URMs, because they benefit from unearned privilege.  This is why Indians and other Asian peoples are excluded from programs which take race into consideration, such as many scholarships set aside exclusively to benefit BIPOCs.[/quote]

Indians are not URM.  They are, however, BIPOCs.[/quote]

The central defining characteristic of being BIPOC is having experienced racism and oppression (particularly economic oppression) at the hands of whites and white culture. Indians have long had higher HHI and a far greater rate of college attainment than whites, proportionally. The same is true for other Asian peoples. Thus, by definition, Indians, Indian-Americans, and Asian peoples are not BIPOC. [/quote]

That is a completely ignorant statement considering the ugly history of anti Asian discrimination and hate crimes in the United States, starting as early as the Gold Rush era, and extending to the present day with Covid related hate crimes. The fact that a certain subsegment of the Asian population has tended to outperform in a small specific area of academics does not negate their minority status and relative lack of political and cultural representation/power in the US. [b]Further, the above poster is conflating certain Asian groups like Indians and Chinese as representing the good fortunes of all Asian groups,[/b] which is another gross oversimplification. Should
we talk as if all white Southerners are racist redneck gunowners, or all black people are drug dealers and live in housing projects? [/quote]

That is why the "Asian" label is pointless...but maybe it is not...it can be used when wanting to be the model minority one day...but on the next day, to claim oppression, as the PP does above. [/quote]

The “Asian” label is not pointless as long as lazy members of society don’t care to make distinctions between countries of origin when targeting them for discrimination. Whether they feel they are alike or not, if other segments of society perceive them as a lump of indistinguishable people, then for all intents and purposes, the perception determines their reality. Do you think racists cared during Covid when other Asians insisted “but I’m not Chinese” when coming under physical attack? do you think racists cared when Sikhs said  but I’m not Muslim after 9/11? [/quote]

That violence that you reference is unfortunate, but that is a different topic re: Asian label, and actually, the people committing the violence are confusing one country of origin for another, not grouping all Asians together. [/quote]

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