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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am first generation; DH grew up in India (but has been in the United States for about 15 years).  None of his friends or mine have made racist comments about black people in our presence.  Every group has its racists, though - a guy I went on one date with before I met DH made such a comment. I called him out on it and obviously never spoke to him again.  If I were at the dinner party you attended I would have said something immediately and wouldn't have hung out with them again.

It's too much to go into here, but look into the model minority myth.  [b]Historically, Indians and black people[/b][b] have been pitted against each other in the United States.  (I especially recommend The Karma of Brown Folk by Vijay Prashad) [/quote]

By "Indian", do you mean Native American?  That was true in the South in the 1800s when the blacks &  Native Americans outnumbered the white people.  This was the only way to keep a sense of control.  [/quote]

No, I mean Indian as in South Asian.  Interestingly, the first Indian-Americans in the United States were brought here as slaves and eventually were incorporated into the black slave communities.[/quote]

I read about slavery in the South in college, but there was no mention of the importation of Indians to be slaves.  Was this in North America or the Caribbean?  When did this happen?  I know that the Brits brought in Indians to be indentured servants (1/2 step up from slavery) to East Africa in the 1800s.[/quote]

Both - here's a magazine article about it --
http://www.indiacurrents.com/articles/2007/05/16/indian-slaves-in-colonial-america

but there is also scholarly research about it - again, Vijay Prashad's The Karma of Brown Folk is terrific on this topic. (That being said - slavery of black people was far more widespread than slavery of Indians - my point is just that black people welcomed Indians into their communities even in colonial times.)[/quote]

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