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bantamblarg:hindustanirani:mehreenkasana:worldly-heart:hindustanirani:deafmuslimpunx:mehreenkasana:Made rebloggable by request.BAM !!!AMEN.Yeah well at the same time dont fucking assume all of us white girls are prejudice, superficial brats. I’ve been putting up with Asian kids (from multiple countries) ridiculing, teasing, bullying me for being a “wannabe asian” or “poser” because I wanted to learn their language or I appreciated their culture. I speak Hindi (and Chinese), have Indian best friends, would PROUDLY wear a kurta in public, and for the record, am PRETTY DAMN PROUD of my frizzy hair (yeah, some white girls have beauty issues too). SO don’t be a hypocrite and do to us what you CLAIM we do to you.When was this post about you? You say you speak Hindi so I’ll just ask: Jab tumhari baat nahi ho rehi hai to phir boli kiun ho? Kabhi to munh band kar liya karo.Okay, when non-Indian people say they “appreciate our culture,” I always have to ask: what does that really mean? There’s plenty about Indian culture (and any culture for that matter) that isn’t exactly glamorous. Watch an effin’ episode of Satyamev Jayate and you’ll see what I mean. Do these people appreciate that, too? Being proud to wear our clothes, eat our food, or watch our films doesn’t exactly mean you *get* what it means to be Indian. There are some things I “appreciate” about other cultures, but I don’t go around trying to *be* from those cultures. I’m all for appreciation and learning about other people’s cultures, but I just find it weird when people who aren’t Indian (especially goras) try to tell ME that they’re persecuted for their appreciation of my culture/roots. I’m sorry, my great grandparents were forced out of their own desh and brought over to Fiji to work the plantation fields because of goras who came in, tried to take over the Islands without the consent of the natives, and then couldn’t get the natives in Fiji to work the fields. My family never made it back to India and eventually fled from Fiji because the natives continued to harass and persecute them even after the British folk had left. They ended up in America, away from their real people…where till this day the next couple of generations (including me and my brothers) face the consequences. I’m not saying I’m not appreciative of the fact that I live in the States because there ARE lots of opportunities here, but no one except my fellow desis — and more specifically my Fiji-Indian family and friends — understand the pressures of being a cultural bastard. I can’t fully claim I’m from India. I can’t fully claim I’m from Fiji. And in America, I’m a minority. And you goras say that we’re doing to you what we claim you’re doing to us? O_oAttempting to learn different languages is commendable. Appreciating different cultures is fantastic. But there’s no use in pretending you are or were discriminated, persecuted and dehumanized for doing so. You are not and you never will be. You might be able to proudly wear a Kurti because you’re White and you’ll probably seem hip and cultured and worldly when you do. But the same isn’t true for us. If you don’t think so, try telling that to my mother who gave up her churidaars and saris because she couldn’t get a job at a grocery store, because people gave her dirty looks on the street, because her children were picked on, because she was told countless times to go back to a home that no longer existed.   -- source link
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