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[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]

[b]The central defining characteristic of being BIPOC is having experienced racism and oppression (particularly economic oppression) at the hands of whites and white culture.[/b] 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]

In addition to pp comments regarding the very obvious 200 years of white colonization (and terrorization) of India, just take a hop over to the Political Discussion board and read the H1B thread.  You will find extreme hatred and vitriol towards Indians there.  My DH is from South India and it made me sick to my stomach to read the comments there.  [/quote]

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