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I'm in Engineering/Information IT with my fellow peers mainly Asian Indian. I have encountered many pleasantires with this cultural group, and get along with them quite well. They're industrious, eager to please, and really do understand the quiet ways in which to go about keeping their heads in a society which undermines them as being authentic American with a right to be here.
I don't always understand why the men sit together, while the women sit away from them - there's many things I don't understand. So I read about different cultures as much as I can.
I also enjoy the Chinese, their culture and traditions.
As you all know by now, America has always been a melting pot of immigrants. In the 19th C it was the Irish, Jews, Germans, Italians, and so forth.
In the 21C we have Haitians, Asian Indians, Iranians, Guatemalans, and so forth.
As long as there is an influx of new cultures you will usually find a dual response: like or dislike.
Last edited by Sagafrika; 12-15-2010 at 12:25 PM..
Reason: typo
I hate it when people pull out the caste system and throw it in my face, expecting me to comprehend to it just because I happen to be ethnically Indian. It is bigoted (I mean the caste system is bigoted itself but people throwing it in my face are bigots).
I hate it when people pull out the caste system and throw it in my face, expecting me to comprehend to it just because I happen to be ethnically Indian. It is bigoted (I mean the caste system is bigoted itself but people throwing it in my face are bigots).
I understand. What does slavery have to do with that though?
I remember picking up a TIME magazine article about Edison, NJ and it talked about Indians being 20 percent of the population there. I was like "okay this is great" but then it talked about the animosity that Indians faced, basically having visited New Jersey, my family members who live there told me about the racism they faced mainly from the White population (they live elsewhere in Jersey).
So as an opinion to your original post - No, I never felt like I am racially targeted in NJ or in any part of the country.
I'm from India, living in US since '04 and I don't consider insecure rants on internet as "proof".
Most of the people who make hateful comments have never been with Indians, never befriended them or never shared a workplace. They just go by popular stereotypes that Indians build Taj Mahals, eat curry, play with snakes, commute on elephants and smell bad whenever they have a chance. Idiots happen to be in every nook and corner of this earth and of course, there are lot many more of them in India.
Last edited by Kannadiga; 12-16-2010 at 09:05 AM..
NJ continues to suffer...when did you stop being racist
Indians make up a huge part of pharma and other industries' work force deomgraphics, demonstrating the vast opportunities available that should mitigate any concern for blatant racism being practiced in NJ.
Sure racism is alive an well and living in Nj and every country on the planet, including India. Has been around for as long as people lived in clans.
These incidents, though not clearly racially motivated, led to predictable outrage in Indian media. Now, the Indian media and blogosphere is turning on itself, questioning what it sees as India’s own rampant racism."
You can find whatever you are looking for. what are you looking for?
Kracer, I have a strong feeling that most of these incidents of attacks on Indians in Australia are NOT racially motivated. They just happen to be robberies where this time the victims being Indians. Indian media sure knows how to concoct stories and blow things out of proportions especially when the news seems sensitive to Indians.
Even if it was the case that Indians were deliberately targeted, we can't blatantly sweep it off as racism. Indians, not being local, seemingly make easy targets for robbers. I don't call it racism. It's more of how robbers think in terms of resistance they are going to receive.
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NJ continues to suffer...when did you stop being racist
