Racism, Discrimination and Indian Hypocrisy

I don't understand this sudden outcry about this Vulturo guy's post on South Indians vs. North Indians.

The North-Indian discrimination towards south Indians is a much visible thing in this country. If you have worked in the northern part of India, you would have faced the discrimination from North Indians. If you talked to some of the North Indians, you would have noticed it. Most of them would always speak with you in Hindi especially when they know you don't know Hindi. You would have seen the same discrimination in the showbiz (the brand Bollywood thingy and those "Indian" film awards like Global "Indian" Film Awards, International "Indian" Film Awards etc when they consider only Hindi language movies). (Read about a first-hand experience about this in this post - Saalaa Madarassi) And do I even have to mention about the attitude towards North-East Indians by rest of the country?

The discrimination between South Indians is also visible in this country. Have you ever seen how people from other states are treated in Bangalore, especially mallus? My friend, who is in the US now, was talking about an experience he had when he went to a police station in Bangalore to complain about his stolen mobile phone. He was totally insulted and been asked to give money and so and so that he had to return without filing a complaint. How does a Malayalee treat a Tamilian? Not the educated Tamilian, but the poor, un-educated Tamilian migrated to Kerala to look for daily-wage jobs? Similar to how a high-caste person would treat a low-caste person.

Also I don't understand why is the racist discrimination against north/south Indians being addressed only when it is about women? When Shilpa Shetty wet her eyes by being called Indian or Dog or whatever, the whole country made a heck of an issue about it. And here when this guy said Madrasi girls are not hot compared to their north Indian counterparts (dude, have you checked out all girls in this part of the country?) again the people got flared up. Well, for one thing, I agree that Punjabis or Kashmiris are sweet if not 'sweeter', cute if not 'cuter' but 'hotter'?? No!! At least not all of them. Also he missed to mention the women in Coorg who are also beautiful and usually compared to the Kashmiri women. (And do they belong to the "Madrasi" category because they belong to south India?)

Well, those who cried and demanded justice (or victory) for Shilpa Shetty, have you guys ever cared about the fate of Malayalees in the gulf countries? Not the Malayalees who have blue collar jobs there, but the ordinary laborers out there? Young Arabs spit at them when they pass by them on the roads, they curse them and beats them and there are companies that don't even pay them a penny as salary after 1 or 2 years of work. (I know a friend who had to gone through this). Have you ever voiced against that discrimination? Where is our so-called media on this?

So when we talk about discrimination, let's try not to be selective, okay?

I was discussing this racial thing with a colleague this afternoon and he said:

Man, the problem is not that we are racists or discriminating people over our personal preferences. The problem is we are showing it off openly and publicly. See, Americans wouldn't have totally gone out of their mindset about the african-american people, but they try not to show it in their social behavior.

I agree that we all have our own personal preferences and we show discrimination in one aspect or the other. So the first thing is not to show this discrimination in our behavior and attitude and the second thing is we should slowly try to get rid of that discrimination thing from our mind as well, right?

Yes, am not sure how much is the second thing going to be effective, but let's at least try to do the first thing.

Yes. Let's try to do at least that, guys.