identity
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The Pakistani Voice That Isn’t in the Room
X.T.M relays BB’s observation that Pakistan’s case at BP is argued almost wholly by people abroad, while India is argued by residents. The note argues the case is untested rather…
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Pakistani Diversity
I have never actually met a Pakistani who thinks they are Arab or Turk ethnically. Claiming lineage is not ethnicity.
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Capitalism’s New Skin: Navigating Identity in a Post-Racial, Hyper-Global World
Picking up Razib’s remark on the 2020 BIPOC era, X.T.M argues that capitalism is now the only cohesive force in a fractured, hyper-globalised world, with social media, UK immigration and…
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Division
Razib Khan laments that South Asians keep stressing their differences, Indian against Pakistani, north against south, high caste against low, though they share common roots and outsiders see the kinship.…
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A new way to say generic “Brown People”
Razib Khan notes the new acronym MASA (Muslim, Arab and South Asian), observing that it spans Norwegian converts to Islam, Assyrian Christians and Bhutanese Buddhists, and that South Asians already…
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Stolen oppression
Reacting to a psychiatrist’s lecture about shooting white people, the author argues that educated, resourced brown Americans are not underprivileged, and claims most white Americans are worse off.
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Capsule Review: Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
A capsule review of Ayad Akhtar’s Homeland Elegies. The reviewer admires the writing but finds the semi-autobiographical narrator stuck in ‘inside the bubble wokeness’, thinks its appeal is narrow beyond…
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America has been good to immigrants and we should be honest about who we are
Razib Khan clarifies his Unherd piece: he argues that some South Asian American social justice activists claim the weight of colonialism and oppression to add to their authority despite privileged…
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Kamala Harris embrace of ‘victim identity’ bothers me
Razib Khan says Kamala Harris’s embrace of victim identity bothers him, noting she entered law school through a programme for students facing hardship while her mother’s family were upper-middle-class Tamil…
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Hindus are the most authentic Indians
Raised in America as ‘Indian’ despite Bangladeshi Muslim roots, Razib Khan reflects on Hindu claims that Muslim and Christian holy sites lie elsewhere, and on how India’s native religious traditions…
