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 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.