I personally have faced racism at multiple places on multiple occasions in the US. Wondering if other Indians here have the same experience as well? For example: once me and fellow Asian friend got ignored in UPS store just because of our ethnicity. We had to officially lodge a complaint to UPS about this. Once I was denied a service solely because of my ethnicity at a restaurant. Not to mention, the racist remarks from homeless/drunk people out there. Subtle racism towards Indians/Asians is way common than you think. Tc: 241k
Country caps are racist
Not even going to get into visa stuff here or racism you face during immigration or at international airports
@intel, can you elaborate? Hope you realize that nationality & race are 2 very different things.
Indians should not complain about racism, since they behave the same in their own country
Generalization much?
I saw bad things in New Delhi. I am still attending therapy due to the massive trauma I faced there
It’s a norm, even at workplace
Indians are much worse in their country. I was spat on in New Delhi, My Uber driver came and left when he saw I was Black, the airport officials made me empty my luggage on the dirty floor because they thought I had drugs, several restaurants refused to serve me and I was denied entry to some places. I am still traumatized till to date and I stay up at night and ask myself what did I go to do in India. Atleast in the US you had a chance to lodge a complaint. In your country, I had none.
what did you go to do in India?
That's terrible. Sorry you had such a bad experience in my country.
Subtle racism is subjective to circumstances. Even I’m an Indian and I have faced the same while working in Chennai or working in pune. It happens in everyplace.
How do you know you were ignored because you are Indian?
That's not very subtle...
USA is the least racist country in the world. Indians are probably asking the most racist people in the world. I'm an Indian born in India and grew up in 7 different states in the USA, and visited India every summer. I've already traveled broadly. I'm so sick of people calling America racist. America embraces is multicultural identity, strongly. Literally every single other place on this planet is more racist.
Autocorrect error: "... probably *among* the most racist people in the world."
And TBH the only people I've seen denying service to Indians due to their race are other Indians.
is it a caste thing? how do you tell? non-Indian here
You can’t
USA is racist. not as much on coasts lol
The UPS incident I mentioned happened to me near Bay Area, California.
I'm an Indian that few up in the USA in many, have different locations. I've found more racism on the coasts than in the Midwest. Also, I've found way more racism in every single other country in the world including India. USA is the least racist country in the world.