ARE WE INDIAN BORN RACIST ? YES WE ARE !

 
             Indian’s have wonderful memories: they cannot remember the saga of defeats and humiliations and how their own politicians and feudal lords befool and exploit but have the flashing memories of their invisible and unrecognisable ethnic and genetics light years away!


         The history tells that hundreds of diverse groups of invaders have made inroads in India since ancient times and the most of them intermingled with then local (already a mixed lot) people and made us a unique mixture of racial attributes. To use outdated terminology, we have Nordic, Australoid, Negrito, Mediterraneans, Alpine, Caucasians  and Mongoloid, nicknamed as Aryans, Iranians, Greece, Shakas, Huns, Hans, Mongols, Mughals, Turks, Afghans, Arabs, Tibetans etc. spread across centuries who overran and settled down. But amazingly they have kept alive memories of their dead blood purity symbolically expressed, reminiscently, in categorizations of caste, colour, religious or physical traits. 

              Punjabis and Kashmiris or Northern Indians boast of being descendants of Nordic races and have racially attributable disdain towards people of south. Likewise a Kashmiri Muslim assumes herself to be purer in blood than one found in UP or Kerala. People of North East call people from Bihar and Jharkhand working there as Desis, because of their physical traits and specially colour of skin, with a frowning attitude; However, they are not ready to be called Chunkies by North Indian people in and around Delhi. Indians have strong fascination and liking for ‘Nordic’ prototypes: fair skin and facial features. The ones having them are regarded highly in social acceptance. Such kind of girls are in great demand whether in social acts of marriage or illegitimate transactions of socially looked down upon ones. 
 

                Indian diaspora is also not free from this mindset whether in Africa, Europe or Western hemisphere ; they always seek partners from ‘Nordic’ people there but avoid people of African origin, for fear of racial-slippage and difficult to obtain social-acceptance in Indian community. It is difficult to say whether it emanates from their mythologically-construed Aryan-affinity or inferiority complex internalized during colonial servitude, and earlier. The mixed bag of racial people are surprisingly happy to flaunt their racial and ethnic superiority vis-a-vis other social groups. 

                 The ‘Nordicness’ is also identified with upper castes groups of our society and implicitly it may affect quality of social relations and interactions in public domains inviting discriminations or acceptance. To add to surprising situation again they are the one who censure and criticize racialism when faced abroad, especially in Austrialia recently but never scrutinize in their own nation how they behave with their own people whether from North Easterner Mangolids, Blackish Southerners and Tribals and tinted Dalits. In fact, every Indian is a born racist in his social behavior and our social institutions and processes of socialization feed this system explicitly or covertly to continue.

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