An African-American Explains Why India Is the Most Racist Country in the World

In 2013, the Washington Post released a map based on a study by two Swedish economists that colour coded the map of the earth based on racist attitudes.

The study was simple: they asked people whether they would have a problem with a neighbour of another race. Only two nations – India at 43.5% and Jordan at 51.4% – scored over 40% in racial intolerance.

The question has since become increasingly relevant. As we have written about earlier, Bollywood actors have launched movements that aimed at extolling the beauty of dark skin, politicians have repeatedly made the point. There have been horrific race-motivated attacks on Africans just within the last year even!

Recently, the question was posed on Quora as to which was the most racist country in the world, and Dave Adali, an American, had a poignant and saddening answer to it.

“I am an African-American in the IT field and I have thus far had the good fortune to live and travel extensively throughout Western and parts of Eastern Europe and many countries in Asia. I have lived or traveled in the UK and most of the EU countries as well as Taiwan, Korea, the Philippines, Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia and several other Asian countries including India.



Of all the countries I have been to, India ranks way up there among the most ‘racist’, IMHO. Indians aren’t so much ‘racist’ as they are intolerant. Indians discriminate against fellow citizens to a degree that I have NEVER encountered in ANY other country. Without a doubt, Indians are the the most color obsessed people I have ever encountered anywhere in the world. No doubt because of all that saturation advertisements for ‘Fair and Lovely’, ‘Fair and Handsome’ and all manners of skin-whitening creams, lotions, soaps etc. Even if you are 100% Indian, your fellow Indians might still discriminate against you on the basis of the color of your skin, which region of India you come from, what language you speak, your religion, your caste etc, etc.

If you are of obvious African ancestry, including African-American, you can find life really, really tough in India if you are going to be in India for a while. Indians can be such unabashed, in your face racists. In the interest of fairness, I should point out that oftentimes, lighter-skinned Indians despise darker-skinned Indians every bit as much as much as they despise us people of African ancestry. Apart from that, there is also considerable antipathy between North Indians and South Indians

Indians outside of India endlessly complain about the intolerance and racism they have to put up with in places like Europe, the US, Canada, Australia, the Middle East and even Africa. These very same Indians conveniently choose to ignore the fact that Indians themselves can be such pathological bigots against their fellow Indians, other Asians and especially people of African ancestry. `. In Amritsar, one of my best friends was Gyan, a Nepali whom I initially mistook for a Chinese. Indians disdainfully call him “Chinki” or “Bahadur”, which Gyan hated. As a matter of fact, Indian citizens from India’s North-Eastern states, who often have Chinese facial features are routinely referred to, usually disparagingly as ‘Chinkis’.

I have a very good friend ‘Terrence’, also an African-American in the IT field. His wife ‘Rekha’ is the the assertive and independent-minded daughter of Gujarati Jains who arrived in the US when ‘Rekha’ was 7 years old. She and her husband met in graduate school and have been married more than ten years now. They have got 3 kids, all of them dark complexion and curly hair, physical traits which her relatives back in Gujarat hated. When ‘Rekha’ took her kids to Gujarat for the first time, her Gujarati relatives took to calling them, usually disparagingly, as ‘Africans’ and ‘Blackies’. ‘Rekha’ finally had enough, especially since the kids were now old enough to understand what was being said about. them So ‘Rekha’ gave the offending relatives the following ultimatum,’ ‘Treat my kids right. or get out and stay out of my life’

India is a great country to visit briefly, because the country itself is endlessly fascinating. An American journalist once described India as “a land of jarring incongruities”. That is what makes India such a worthwhile tourist destination.

Some African-Americans have sought my advice about going to Indian for hands-on IT training. My stock advice to them is. be prepared to deal with unabashed in-your-bigotry because Indians hate dark-skinned people, including fellow-Indians. You can expect to have things even worse if you are somebody of African ancestry. As for housing, be prepared to live long term in a hotel. Available housing can be hard to get even if you are an Indian. Because Indian landlords routinely discriminate even against fellow Indians who happen to be from the ‘wrong’ part of India, speak the ‘wrong’ language, belong to the ‘wrong’ religion or caste etc. As somebody of African ancestry, you face a double whammy in a culture that hates dark skin. If you are Caucasian or White, you should be alright, since the people automatically show respect for white-skinned people. Heck, I have seen Indians discriminating against fellow Indians in favor of White foreigners.

This is NOT an anti-Indian rant, just my experiences and observations.

Source: http://www.bodahub.com/american-says-india-most-racist/

Indians hardly deal with other national outside their country, I guess this is based on their beliefs or something else. I had little dealings with them outside Nigeria and I know they can be stingy as anything.

This is sad. And India is as religious as Nigeria

This whole article seems to be describing the typical Yoruba person. Most Yoruba landlords will not give you their house for rent if you are "omo ibo" (Igbo person). And it doesn't matter if you are Igbo, Efik, Urhobo, Edo, as long as you are not from the north, you are "omo ibo" to them.

Reference pls

Indians truly are the most Racist people on earth....

folarinmiles:

na safety precaution
1. Igbos are dirty and won't participate in any developmental activity in d house coz he's omo Igbo and d house does no belong to him.

2. Igbos are very tribal, they'll always call names and abuse every Yoruba in the compound.

3. Yeebos are child traffickers; you see like 20 small small chidren inside one room and na every 2mths he dey pack anoda new set come. If u ask him, dey are all his niece and dey come work for Lagos.
Though afta a month, dey start forming big boy and start telling everyone history say Lagos, ijebu, ekiti, anywhere that has "Igbo" in it is Igbo land e.g igboora.

4. Pride; an average Igbo wants to be treated like a boss. They see everyone as inferior to them.

5. All igbos are Jew, and it wonders the Yoruba landlord what a Jew is looking for in his compound. Run a check, Jews are greedy!

Please I don't av enough strength to type again so don't quote me if u nid any reply

Unnecessary generalization, both this and the post you were replying.


Why fan the embers of tribal discord?

Indians exhibit racism among themselves, the fair ones feeling superior to the black ones talkless of a non-indi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOpJrsZUZf4

Africans speak about their experiences in India. It will open your eyes.