Vivek Dahiya: Vivek Dahiya faces racial discrimination at airport.

While we keep hearing about racial
discrimination and racist attacks, the
enormity of the issue strikes us only
when we face it ourselves. Ask actor
Vivek Dahiya, who recently had a rather
unpleasant encounter with immigration
officials at the Budapest airport while
returning from a family holiday. As Vivek
and his actress wife Divyanka Tripathi
were waiting in the queue to board the
flight, the officials decided to give
preference to a group of 15 Americans
who were standing behind them.
Recounting the incident, the actor says,
"I have been travelling since I was 18
and have studied in the UK for seven
years. Over the last 14 years, I've never
faced such an issue. Budapest is the first
city where I faced discrimination. There
were a few small incidents in the first
few days, but I shrugged them off
thinking that they were either
coincidences or the locals were not
warm. However, I soon realised that they
chose to behave in a certain way
towards outsiders. The preferential
treatment at the airport made it all the
more worse."
He adds, "And then, when you return
home, you realise that it's no different
here. We are obsessed with fair skin and
give preference to Westerners over our
own countrymen. Every country should
treat tourists and their own citizens
equally. Preferential treatment of any
kind and on any basis shouldn't be
tolerated."

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