Chinese have also western craze. They have built whole replicas – smaller versions- of Eiffel Tower, Big Ben , Trevis Fountains, Versailles and WHY . If they can´t goto Eiffel Tower, ET will come to them. And whole townships resembling English countryside , etc. In the case of Indians it is colonial hangover. In Chinese case , it is more self confident imitation

i don’t think it’s meant as a compliment to northeastern indians 😉

your point is taken, but it’s not a generality, but envy and lionization of a particular west asian/european look.

Don’t know about Kamala Harris but in India, “you don’t look Indian” is usually a compliment.

Similarly, if you come across a clean street or a beautiful landscape, a common exclaimation is “this place doesn’t look like India!”

Indians have extreme self-loathing in a lot of cases except maybe food. Don’t know if it will go away with economic growth. Might even get exacerbated.

Most rich Indians in big cities after all aspire to live in cut-rate Gothic or Roman styled gated apartment complexes with names like ‘Yvonne’ or ‘Carlton Estate’.
(actual names from Bombay and Gurgaon respectively)

this is an ignorant comment. not about indians, about america. in america, black+anything else => black. also, harris’ path is going to be getting the black vote in SC, so she has to play that up.

Few years back there was an Iranian origin police officer in the London force. He started a Black Police officers assn. He was eventually prosecuted for assaulting an Iraqi guy in a shop and jailed I think. Rest of the force heaved a sigh of relief.

They’re crazy. I remember going to a gurudwara in Brampton and there was a huge poster saying “Khalistan Zindabad, Hindustan Murdabad”. Noped the fuck out of there.

Even people like Kamala Harris identify as black instead of Indian or mixed. lol any chance Indians get to identify as non-Indian, we’ll take it.

thatz my man!

Lulzz bandits ain’t no persians. Persian is like the off-white to Turk pure white. Bandit is charcoal. I roast bandit’s mommy cow on charcoal…

#BanditClownsAreBlackOrBrownz
#KuffarKineTastesDivine

Tell him to learn Farsi and speak it without the Hindustani accent. Making a little bit of effort will go a very long way to acceptance..