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[quote=Anonymous][quote=CindyBindy][quote=Anonymous]

Ummm. Actually I lived in Brazil as part of the priveleged class (which is FYI - based on money not color) and live here in the US as an African American. The mere fact you dismiss the intrinsic connection of colonialism and race in these countries causes me to question your "real world first hand experience". But keep telling the crew on here that will listen to you. Who knows they might believeyou  but be clear only the most liberal ones will be "kinda ok" with their daughters dating one of your sons. I'm just sayin'[/quote]

I'm starting to wonder if English is your first language, because you clearly are having some kind reading comprehension problem here.

Color does matter in Brazil. It's not going to get you lynched or destroy your employment prospects, and I've never experienced racism and am not implying that everyone is a hooded tree-lynching KKK member there. But the politics of color, hair type and other such indicators exist in social relations even when people don't realize it's technically "racist". That. Was. My. Whole. Point. About. Political. Correctness.

I never "dismissed" colonialism. There is a difference between "not talking about colonialism because it's not part of an argument in which you are pointing out that racism is not exclusive to India and not worse in India than it is anywhere else in the developing world", and "not talking about colonialism because its effect on racism in developing countries is non-existent." Get your story straight.

By the way? I've interned in Brazil and two of my best friends are extremely wealthy Brazilians. One of them is going to be my host for the World Cup and they absolutely move in "privileged" circles, so I'm not sure you're out-snobbing anyone here. I also never introduced a debate about whether money is more important than color - unless you count that part in my original post where I said that poorer Indians like white people because they think they're rich? Oh shit wait, did I just imply that social status in India is based on money, not color? Oops!

[quote]CindyBindy, I know you have good intentions when reviving these racially charged threads, but honestly if the thread is dead please just let it be. I guarantee you within a couple of weeks there will be another new Indian bashing thread, they're pretty regular on this forum and your posts would be great at that time.

~ Fellow Indian American female [/quote]

I know, I know. But I have a troll-magnet problem.

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Not PP but Brazil and India are not even comparable.  The fact that person or others jokes about a type of hair is no more akin to racism than a red head joking about their hair color or a white person saying they are pale.  The fact of the matter is Brazilians are infinitely more accepting of phenotypic and cultural differences than most countries on the planet including the US.[/quote]

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