Recent news is full of a New Zealander TV show host making fun of the surname of Delhi CM ‘Sheila Dixit’ pronunciating it as ‘Dick Shit’ . Earlier, the same host was making fun of their Governor General of Indian origin, following which he was summarily suspended for a fortnight.
Now, it is not for the first or second or even third time that such a thing has happened. We have had incidents in which TIME, an erstwhile leading magazine, published an article by Joel Stein leading to the entire furor; ultimately leading to TIME publishing an apology. We have had an Indian actress win a Big Brother season sailing on the popularity generated by such racial comments when she was called racist names by Jade Goody. But this post is not supposed to be an outrage against such incidents. I do not intend this post as a rant against how the world is not giving India the respect that is due to it. This post is intended to question us alleging anyone else is being racially prejudiced when we Indians are the biggest racists ever.
A conventional racial system of Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, and Shudras has been prevalent in Indian society for quite some time now. This distinction was based on the kind of work that people were doing and often ended up creating a divide between the different factions of the society.
Few days back i was on my way home, sitting in Delhi Metro where people try to show how well mannered they are. There were many people and nobody got exaggerated attention which was given to two African nationals. Both of them were quite oblivious to the crowd of people gawking at them. The penatrating look of the fellow passengers made them realize the harsh reality of being black. They are called Kalu (balck), Kaliya etc. These thigs are quite disheartening at times. Whenever something happens in Australia, there is a hue and cry."If you want to shower flowers on others atleast give flowers to them."
Now, it is not for the first or second or even third time that such a thing has happened. We have had incidents in which TIME, an erstwhile leading magazine, published an article by Joel Stein leading to the entire furor; ultimately leading to TIME publishing an apology. We have had an Indian actress win a Big Brother season sailing on the popularity generated by such racial comments when she was called racist names by Jade Goody. But this post is not supposed to be an outrage against such incidents. I do not intend this post as a rant against how the world is not giving India the respect that is due to it. This post is intended to question us alleging anyone else is being racially prejudiced when we Indians are the biggest racists ever.
A conventional racial system of Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, and Shudras has been prevalent in Indian society for quite some time now. This distinction was based on the kind of work that people were doing and often ended up creating a divide between the different factions of the society.
Few days back i was on my way home, sitting in Delhi Metro where people try to show how well mannered they are. There were many people and nobody got exaggerated attention which was given to two African nationals. Both of them were quite oblivious to the crowd of people gawking at them. The penatrating look of the fellow passengers made them realize the harsh reality of being black. They are called Kalu (balck), Kaliya etc. These thigs are quite disheartening at times. Whenever something happens in Australia, there is a hue and cry."If you want to shower flowers on others atleast give flowers to them."
