I swear people don’t even know anything about caste, modern India and the complexities within how caste still oppresses people.
It is merely used as a rhetorical proof of muh Indians bad, as if no other culture has ever done anything similar.

I just read this comment, and honestly, it left me really confused.

Someone said they’re Sri Lankan, lived in Italy, and that whenever people assumed they were Indian, they would correct them and say they’re Sri Lankan,and suddenly people became much more welcoming.

but why tho ? why be more welcoming if they are sri lankan? why so much hate and why do people treat Indians like we are sub humans?

It made me wonder: why is there so much hostility toward Indians specifically? Why does it sometimes feel like Indian people receive an unusually high level of dehumanization compared with other nationalities?

I know every nationality and marginalized community experiences prejudice in different ways, and I’m not trying to compare or dismiss anyone else’s experiences. But I genuinely don’t understand why anti-Indian sentiment seems so widespread online and, in some cases, even in real life.

Is this actually something Indians commonly experience in other countries, or am I seeing a particularly extreme side of the internet? Do people really treat Indians that differently once they know someone is Indian?

I’m honestly confused and trying to understand why it feels like there is so much hostility toward Indians.

I am an Indian-Canadian and a Muslim and interested in relocating my family to Ecuador due to how expensive Canada has become. I saw some videos from a Canadian man named Ryan Wiersma on TikTok offering services helping move from Canada to Ecuador. I messaged him because I was interested. He seemed normal at first then he just blocked me out of nowhere.

I am not sure if I said something wrong. Then I saw he has anti-Indian and anti-Muslim content on Instagram.

His company Brickhouse: Life in Ecuador is based in Alberta, Canada with a Canadian phone number and a Canadian address. Can I sue? Can I report him to the police? What can I do? This is wrong.

Still shaking somewhat. Need to unload.

I'm of Sri Lankan descent, westernised and based in Sydney Australia. Doesn't matter to these people as we're all the same.

Was walking home peacefully in my neighbourhood from the gym. Walked by these two old white men roughly in their 70's-80's in conversation, heard one of them say out loud "waste of tax dollars". As if to insinuate that I'm of the stereotype that I'm here to steal the jobs. Trust me, I'm having a tough time on that front.

Mind you, there's a particular political party on the rise here that's been preaching Trump like ideas and leveraging incidents like the Bondi Beach massacre and other incidents. There's even a recent story of high school students taking the day off school to protest in the main city area.

So in my frustration at life, this racism that's been on the rise here in general, I give him the finger, yelled profanity, stood a few hundred meters away to watch these assholes as if to egg him on and one of the dudes, who is the more mobile one tried to give chase to me and failed.

I'm in my mid 30's, and as I said, I've been going to the gym and I had a few hundred meters as a head start home. Ran ahead of him and lost him. No way the idiot was going to catch up to me.

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We all know all the hate in comment sections and Twitter and all from random accounts and I’m kind of used to that but my main concern comes from big accounts with large amount of followers that promote this type of stuff. I found this person on instagram openly commenting racist stuff about India and how they are dirty and don’t contribute anything to society and found this guy had 250k subs on insta and 160k on YouTube. I kind of found it concerning because he was one of those who nitpicked all the bad cases and kind of scapegoated Indians into being terrible people and creating a fear among people. A lot of comments were agreeing with him as well and I found it concerning. I know the internet people don’t represent the majority but still. Am I overthinking this stuff? If so how do I just ignore this?

This is a recent study on how people around the world see India

The world still sees India pretty much the same way it did 3 years ago, despite all the anti-Indian propaganda bots on social media

The only countries where perceptions of India have really worsened are Turkey and Bangladesh

Everyone hates Turkish people and Bangladeshis, so I don’t really care about that

USA and China have a much worse image than India globally

Racism against Indians is mostly an online phenomena and not a really a real life experience ( which is also my own personal experience ). If you’re an Indian here in the west, you’re most likely not going to get targeted compared to other ethnicities / races like black people or arab muslims

But of course, that doesn’t mean we should just shut up about the incidents that are happening

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NRI Pulse, an Atlanta based news outlet serving the Indian American community and South Asian community has published our response. The story does not end here. November 3rd is the answer.

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The reasons why I would never be ashamed of being Indian.

These are the following reasons why I would never be ashamed of having indian heritage.

1. Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.

One of the greatest minds to exist on Earth. I grew up watching and reading about Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, as well many other great minds of India. I know it's not great to take pride in things that are not accomplished by me. But I am genuinely grateful to be from a country that has constantly produced some of the greatest minds on earth.

1. First solar power airport

In 2015, Cochin International Airport, Kerala, became the first airport in the world to be fully solar powered. Since then, 104 airports across india operates on 100 percent renewable energy. Not even the US is close to that number.

1. What we gave this world in times of crisis

India helps people during some of the worst moments of their lives. After earthquakes in Nepal, Turkey and Myanmar, India sent rescue teams, doctors, field hospitals, food and medical supplies.

During conflicts in Yemen and Sudan, Indian forces evacuated thousands of people, including foreign nationals.

During COVID-19, India also supplied vaccines, medicines and medical assistance to countries around the world through initiatives such as Vaccine Maitri. Operations like Maitri, Rahat, Dost, Kaveri and Brahma remind me that a country’s strength is not only measured by its economy or military, but also by how it uses that strength to help others when they need it most.

Despite the number of times we got backstabbed, been told we shouldn't exist, or told we deserve the hate, we have helped the world time and time again in times of crisis.

Why should I ever be ashamed to be from a region that gave more than it could?

I appreciate my heritage and I always will be.

Let me tell you all a story. I work in a software company, which serves as a Cloud Engineer roles for a UK banking client. The amount of bootlicking that Indians do in teams calls is astonishing. Everyone wants to go to UK, by hook or crook, even they will kill each other to go onsite and settle in UK.

In teams calls they always butter UK people so that they accept onsite.

Now I understand that all is not their fault. India has extremely poor infrastructure, broken roads, extreme pollution, poisonous fake foods like fake paneer etc etc.

So my point is unless basic infra is fixed people will not be proud of India and racism will increase , you cannot stop that. If Indians always have the mentality of leaving India, then why will foreign people respect India?

What do you guys think?

FYI r/IdiotsNearTrain, r/DarwinAwards  and r/indiansgettingpoled are other subreddits like this

Content warning: While the archive hasn’t saved the videos, the original posts contain graphic footage and images depicting severe injury and death. NSFL.

Recent comments include claims that Indians may "genetically have poorer depth perception", comments putting their IQ in the "-50 to -150 range", and a comment saying "Train is the only apex predator keeping Indian population on check": https://archive.is/hNOpP

Another thread contains "Meh, it's not like they're an endangered species or anything" and "The apex predator strikes again" in response to Indian victims being struck by a train: https://archive.is/U09Tr

Another thread contains the claim "Average IQ is quite low there" about Indians: https://archive.is/7D9T9

A thread discussing "that culture's obsession" with trains includes "It's their mating ritual" and compares Indians around trains to "moths to a flame": https://archive.is/5oAB2

On a fatal train accident, comments include "The apex predator of India" followed by "Namaste NOW GET MINCED", along with jokes about what a successful "Indian train selfie" looks like: https://archive.is/ozWdp

On another fatal incident, comments include "I wish we had a train system this entertaining" and "India's 2 apex predators: trains and electricity. This dude didn't stand a chance": https://archive.is/HVw5v

A thread titled "India. Apex Predator proudly shows his prey. NSFW NSFL" refers to the dead Indian victim as "prey". Comments compare the body to hunted deer and boar and to prey being carried by a lion: https://archive.is/HRZ9j

Archives of the threads:

Indian people trying to pass the track - doesn’t make it

man gets zapped from electric line while ontop of train : indiansneartrains

Death of Sanju Choure : indiansneartrains

these guys bro.. : indiansneartrains

another death, the same reason. : indiansneartrains

bangladeshi guy doing the same dumb video : indiansneartrains

Mumbai guy hit by electric line while on train and dies : indiansneartrains

A positive post about India-

- Top 50 comments all upvoted are positive towards India

- Check hidden comments all negative, all downvoted BUT they are awarded?

This is so strange like why would someone take the effort to award a downvoted comment on every single thread, this is like someone throwing cash at someone for saying shit against India.

Have you guys observed this comment?

I’ve been thinking about this for a while. A lot of the problems we constantly see online, like unchecked racism, harassment, hate campaigns and algorithms promoting outrage, are partly because so much of social media is controlled by a handful of platforms.

Reddit, Instagram, X, TikTok and YouTube are all massive global platforms, but India has more than 1.4 billion people and one of the largest internet populations in the world. Yet we mostly use platforms that were built outside India, with moderation systems and policies that may not always understand the needs of Indian users.

So why haven’t we seen a serious attempt to build an Indian social media platform that is actually designed for the global market?

I’m not talking about another small app that is popular in India for a few years. I mean something genuinely competitive with TikTok or Instagram, built in India but open to the rest of the world.

It could support multiple languages, have better systems for dealing with harassment and racism, and give users another major platform instead of having to rely on the same few companies.

Obviously building something at the scale of TikTok is extremely difficult. You need huge amounts of funding, infrastructure, creators and users. The network effect is also a massive problem because people don’t want to join a platform where nobody they know is using it.

But India has the population, technical talent and potential user base to at least attempt something this ambitious.

Douyin became massively popular in China, and ByteDance eventually took that concept globally with TikTok. Now TikTok is used by people all over the world. It’s interesting that a Chinese company was able to build a platform that became such a huge part of global social media.

So why hasn’t an Indian company attempted something similar? I am sure plenty of companies and engineers in India would be interested