Racism is too normalised and we do nothing about it.
I'm Star, I'm an 18 year old Indian who immigrated to the EU a few years ago to pursue my education. The reason i originally made this blog was to write tiny stories and pieces of work, since it's a dear hobby of mine. But today, I've decided against it because of a problem that I cannot ignore anymore.
Being Indian, I've faced racism on multiple occasions, while i was in India, after moving and especially on the internet, regardless of where i was posted. As a child, hearing those hateful things made me resent my culture and nationality, I avoided my tradition to avoid the hate i received for it. Later in life I grew past it and tried to take it as jokes so it wouldn't hurt as much, which, by extension, healed my racism against my own race, due to which I could once again embrace my culture. Now why am I writing paragraphs about this?
Purely because of how horribly normal it has become to face racist comments in daily interactions from people of other races+my own race. It's pathetic that there is so much hatred and normalised mockery of my culture and land, and it's even worse that people of said land are also in on it.
Additionally, since nonchalance and ragebaiting are huge cultures in younger generations right now, it's quite literally pointless trying to defend anyone or thing, because then you've "been ragebaited!", can't get your poiunt across and you'll hear irritating comments like "chill, it was just a joke" or "why're you getting so angry, it's funny" and its all for the love of the game. It's also fucked up to stay quiet, because by not doing anything, you're basically advocating for it to keep happening, and if you join in on these so called jokes, you're just actively advocating for racism to be normalised.
Besides this, there's the way people actively steal things from my culture, religion, or tradition, call it something else from some other widely accepted culture and call it a day. For example, the "Scandinavian scarves" which were just dupattas all along. Why, oh, why do you shame my culture while actively stealing from it?
I've been tolerating this for far too long, as im sure have multiple others. I'm not sure how to stop it, but I thought that maybe posting about this would draw in the right audience who would. I've thought about part time activism since I'm still a full-time student, but I'm not sure how to start or what it entails.
I hope this reaches like minded people who just want an end to this.
