Racism an endless debate

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race — scientifically, anthropologically.

tony morrison

Racism has always been an object of the hotspot. From America to Africa, Asia to Europe, it has no boundaries. However, when I talk about my country India, it came to light when Mahatma Gandhi was pushed off the train by the foreigners saying you are black and was being insulted by white supremacists.

Regardless, this is where when the revolution starts, the struggle for Freedom. And after the long battle for Independence, he proved that Violence is not the only way to revolt for righteousness.

Precisely, not only this. I think racism is not only limited to colors only. For instance, let’s take my country India,

India is a country that has perfect mixtures of cultures, rituals, languages, and religions that you can’t find anywhere else on this planet. This a loving country wherein distance of every 1 km you will surely see a religious place and different accents. Every part of this country has its own beautiful culture, and way of living. Every part is a whole new world in itself. For instance,

• Northeast India is famous for its beauty, hygiene, and being an organic state with peace-loving people.
• South India is known for its higher literacy, culture, and law-abiding citizens.
• North India is known for its natural beauty, agriculture, cleanliness, simplicity & hardworking people.
• West India for their agriculture, business, tourism, and historical places and the place of a long battle.

But this isn’t as cheesy as it sounds. Sometimes we forgot that the truth is often different. And this is all because of some social norms that we take lightly but left their dark mark on humanity. When people take themselves off from their convenience zone and entered big cities real racism starts there.

Although as I said earlier INDIA is a beautiful & peace-loving country so these things do not dominate the whole urban culture much, still some grounds are there that should be discussed.

Different Types Of Racism In India

Using the word “chinki” To Mock Northeast People

This word is used to make fun of Northeastern women in various cities. I also heard this many times when I was in college. People said this because they have small eyes and pretend that they are useless despite knowing nothing about their culture, even during this pandemic, they got much hate by saying that they belong to China and look like them. Isn’t it racism?

Racism By Language

India has an ocean of languages, nearly 780 languages speak here, most of them are unrecognized and it holds the second position after Papua New Guinea.

But after entering the big cities there are priorities of only two languages i.e., Hindi & English which is not bad but a problem arises when people make fun of other languages like saying “Bihari” who belongs to Bihar. And khadi boli of Haryana, pahadi boli of Uttarakhand.

There are many places in India where child education is still in the native languages like Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, and the many South Indian States. Also, in some of the tribal areas, the education level is so poor that they never taught and learned English or Hindi. Prejudice against them with their terminology is a threat to democracy as well as humanity because in Democracy everyone has the right to express himself.

Making Fun Of People Because Of Their Outfits

As I Said, India is rich in culture, along with language and completion it has varieties in dressing sense also. For instance, from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, different outfits describe different cultures of India. A long overcoat is used in Kashmir and a simple Dhoti is used in South India. But when they gathered together in the center of India real racism commences, people start judging themselves, murmuring about their appearance. Banning them in clubs and restaurants or public gatherings.

Also, when we move toward the west we see people in big turbans. A big Turban is the pride of Sikhs. But, It’s a matter of laughing for some low mentality people. But remember every community and religion is the pride of our country. Mocking someone only shows how goofiest you are. Sikhs are the people who are always ready for the country whenever the need arises.

Discrimination In Movie Industries

Bollywood always involves controversies because of the discrimination against outsiders who don’t have any filmy bckground. They hesitate to take newcomers and a real talent, rather look for the handsome and fair complexion as a lead role, even for the role of Lord Krishna(Hindu God), I’ve never seen the role of Lord Krishna in dark complexion in movies or serials. Even he has a dark complexion in real mentioned Purans(Scared Hindu text).

But there are also other movie industries like Tollywood (South Indian Film Industry). They are somewhere better. They’re providing equal opportunities to real talent irrespective of your complexion and background.

Racism In Caste And Religion

Casteism has had a long relationship with India from ancient times. In the Vedic period, only the upper caste has the right to education, and the lower caste insisted work as a cleaner. To stop the inequality Government started the reservation system. Furnishing reservations will be helpful for the racist in the caste but it has created more hate for the unreserved because of the lack of translucency in the Ordinance.

If not caste then religion faces racism. The problem lies everywhere if you belong to the Hindu majority area Muslims will suffer and if you’re from the Muslim majority, Hindus will face racism.

Skin tone racism

India has an average yellow and light brown skin color in North India. And in South India, it is a bit dark as compared to other areas but as we know beauty doesn’t lie in color some of the product brands play marketing games. Beauty products like fair & handsome and fair & lovely indicate and tell you that if you want to be handsome and want to change your complexion then use our product. But Why change? Why can’t you accept what God makes you?

And thankfully after so many years Hindustan Unilever(parent company of a beauty product) agreed and decided to change their product name and remove the word “Fair” from the product. Check out:- Lovely need not to fair

In the final analysis

I think Racism will never end as long as humanity exists. It’s human nature to be superior in front of others. Recently people are debating Racism, but for how long? 2-3 weeks or until someone again will lose his/her life. Even if you somehow eliminate racism in one particular field, then still there are other grounds that are even worst than this field.

It’s all up to us how we take these things. People will always speak something because that’s what they do. If you’re unable to change people then you can change yourself. It’ll be much easier for you. Just leave these things as you got your damn battles and do what makes you happy and your family proud.

Numerous ordinances are passed in Parliament to stop racism but the truth no Law can change your mindset unless you want to change it.

This is all my personal thinking about Racism. It may differ from your opinion but the focus point is we have to stop racism.

What Do you think about Racism? Is it going to end someday? Or debating over this issue is worthless.

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