Instablogs - Mobile - Delhi’s reverse racism

Call it preferential racism, or the white skin syndrome, but we like to be nice to white people; and are suspicious and wary of those who hail from other parts of the global village. Apartheid may have ended, but problems faced by Africans in the capital are yet to come to an end. Moelelwa Mashala, from South Africa, who has just completed her BA from Miranda House says she faces humiliation every day. “When I walk on the streets, people laugh at me, and I can hear them say words like ‘Kalu’. When I first came here, I was shocked, I had no idea Indians could be racist. But I guess the society is not used to black people,” she says.

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Nick

It's a harsh truth that Indians are the most racist people. That's why castism still exists there. They discriminate with their own people.

Vinit

Don't relate such incidents with racism. Racism is some thing else. Indians don't attack the foreigners. It is true that they use words like "kalu" for Africans but that is not due to their racist out thinking. They say this in a humorous mood

Gaurav

You think calling every bold person as "Ganja" is humorous?

i don't think so...

Ameya Waghmare

Whatever, in Delhi there are never any attacks against people coming from other parts of the country how so ever uncivilized they may be, and never ever on foreign nationals.

Particularly, those who come for higher education are respected all through out India, as Indians tend to respect the knowledgeable. Just have some more qualit universities in India, Aussies won’t dare to beat you up. Aussies got a good response in Cricket first, this time it is on a higher scale!

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