We cannot even talk about racism towards us without someone jumping in and going āwell this other group has it worseā SHUT up. Genuinely shut up. This isnāt a competition. Itās like we donāt even exist.
āIām not into Indian girls, but you look [other ethnicity]ā youāre into Indian girls.
āOmg I love Indian foodā and itās just butter chicken or chicken tikka masala.
āChandelier earringsā you mean my jhumkas?
āI love avatar/atlaā you donāt know what the concept of an avatar even is.
āYour slums are dirtyā tell that to the unusually low Covid rates in those slums.
āIndians donāt experience colourismā that is certainly an echo chamber chronically online take.
Exams during our festival season while every other religion gets their days off. Told to speak English when many of us in the diaspora already do (thanks colonialism!). Made to take English exams or considered international students on the basis of our names. Overlooked in job applications. Blamed for climate change. Blamed for lack of jobs. Blamed for crashing economy. Blamed for terrorism (more issues there). Random TSA checks. Random hate crimes. Stolen culture. Stolen property.
Uncredited for simple things everyone does nowadays. Coconut oil, miswak, mehndi, indigo, the number 0, banking cheques, chess, yoga, chakras, third eye, evil eye, turmeric, clean girl aesthetic, lost wax casting, bindis, kohl, dupattas, bangles, courtyards in houses, paisley, the very concept of rebirth and reincarnation. I could go on.
The racism towards Indians is so entrenched in every single western culture that nobody bothers to look twice when India suffers a heat wave. You all love Greece and Rome but did you know they directly benefitted from trade with the Indian subcontinent? Did you know Indians were taken as indentured labourers too? Did you know we were slaves too? And Iām speaking for South Asia as a whole here, did you know many of us are still slaves?
Weāre not asking you to elevate us. Weāre telling you to acknowledge us, and to do so without putting us in competition with any other racialized group.
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