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Posted: 11 years ago

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Originally posted by: shweta2728
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Yup you're right! "IT" can't be eliminated but it can be decreased. Discrimination can be of any kind. Color, race, gender, height, weight, etc.

Okay here's a random funny story. When I first moved to where I was currently living, there weren't many Indians here. So someone at my school asked me, exactly "what" was I? I answered, "Indian". And he says back to me, "Oh cool, what tribe?"

Goes to show you...

If someone asks me where I am from I state the city. If they repeat: no where are you really from?

I say what do you mean each time until they are really uncomfortable. Finally, I laugh and tell them I am from Indian. Show em the mirror😉 Yup, works every time😆

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alina.b

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Posted: 11 years ago

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Haha! You know...I'm going to try that next time...I wanna see the reaction! 🤣 I mean, yeah I am American cuz I'm a legal citizen and I've been here before I even started school but I am also Indian cuz I was born there and the culture is just the part of who I am! But its kinda annoying when Indians in India try to be less Indian (A new topic maybe, hmmm...) BUT back to the original topic! That is a really good trick lol!

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DonnaHarvey

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Posted: 11 years ago

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Originally posted by: shweta2728
@Jasleen Haha! You know...I'm going to try that next time...I wanna see the reaction! 🤣 I mean, yeah I am American cuz I'm a legal citizen and I've been here before I even started school but I am also Indian cuz I was born there and the culture is just the part of who I am! But its kinda annoying when Indians in India try to be less Indian (A new topic maybe, hmmm...) BUT back to the original topic! That is a really good trick lol!

Try it and do let me know how it goes😆

If you make that topic, I will be one of the first to comment and I promise to bring in fresh perspective dissimilar from the conventional yes or no.

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alina.b

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Posted: 11 years ago

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Originally posted by: DonnaHarvey

Try it and do let me know how it goes😆
If you make that topic, I will be one of the first to comment and I promise to bring in fresh perspective dissimilar from the conventional yes or no.

My new topic, "Wearing Indian clothing?"

https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/debate-mansion/3754831/wearing-indian-clothing

Edited by shweta2728 - 11 years ago

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-Carrie-

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Posted: 11 years ago

#45

Originally posted by: DonnaHarvey

Thank you! That need to be said.
For the last time, colorism is a big deal. No one is denying that but the institutionalized oppression of one people is NOT comparable to this civil issue. There is colorism in every race (white, brown, black) but no one else is out announcing it is equivalent to the subservience and slavery that the colonizers implemented. Then why go on talking our own kind down? What good does it do if there isn't a white arse to kiss but we do it anyway?

I have only lived in India with just a couple visits to "white" places for not more than two weeks.I have not seen first hand the issue which you talk about.So yeah maybe I am ignorant. Still inspite of being a dark skinned I was treated just fine while I was there. But I'll tell you this much:If Ms Davuluri was participating in Femina Miss India she wouldn't have got past Round One😊 The issue I brought up is just as bad.

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Posted: 11 years ago

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^Remember Kajol, Rani Mukherjee, Priyanka Chopra, Deepika Padukone, Vidya Balan or Bipasha Basu? Or Miss India winners like Lara Dutta and Diana Hayden? They shouldn't have been successful because of their dark skin. And for the last time: Treating dark-skinned as "ugly" or "unattractive" is wrong. But NOT the same as INSTITUTIONALIZED racism in the West.

Edited by krystal_watz - 11 years ago

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DonnaHarvey

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Posted: 11 years ago

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@carrie I echo krystal's thoughts here.

you acknowledge the fact that you have not lived in multiracial places long enough to know what racism is. but you can read up on the issue if it matters to you. likewise, we acknowledge the fact that dark skinned people are not treated as well in India. No one is denying it. But, racism is a far bigger problem with far bigger implications. It means lack of education, denying job opportunities (everywhere not just in the entertainment community), unfair incarceration during to targeted profiling, ridicule, (I could go on for a while) of one people because of their skin color. It also means debilitating poverty, lack of health care and basic facilities available to the majority because your race is segregated in the "ghetto" and no one wants to serve the ghetto- not good teachers and definitely not good doctors. And after being born in all that, God forbid you fall back on welfare or food banks, those privileged whites will call you a good for nothing who takes advantage of the system. They would rather you die than "take advantage of the system" that was designed to help those in need.

Again, if you are not aware of an issue, MAKE yourself aware. Kindly do not undermine racism because you do not know what it means more than the dictionary.com definition.

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