Reply #16: Good old-fashioned prejudice and racism here I see [View All]

Yes this is awful and like every country India has its own very dark side, but the replies up thread are extreme generalizations considering this is a country with a billion people.

Please remember that it wasn't so long ago that this country allowed people to own slaves. And don't we have the highest rate of capital punishment in this country (I am not sure but we are certainly very high up on the list of countries in that stat)?

I agree about how awful this is, but Americans really need to lose this superiority complex regarding how extremely civilized and wonderful we are and generalizations like "Indian men kill babies" or whatever it was upthread are really disgusting. My father is one such Indian man and you know maybe they all aren't the same :eyes:....And the "civilized Indians" aren't necessarily at all the "westernized ones" who learnt from the wonderful British-India is a very diverse country-one region cannot be used as a generaliztion for every other.

I think the extreme racism against India and China I often see here (if similar statements were made about any Middle Eastern or African nation-i.e. tarring of the entire nation-it would rightly be challenged), is more tied to misplaced anger over outsourcing rather than anything else. Direct the anger over outsourcing at the corporations with unfair practices...not people in some of the poorest parts of the world who will take any opportunity they get.