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Daddysredhead -> RE: Ethnicity (10/7/2008 6:11:24 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Alumbrado
It was set against a depiction of the real life situation in Uganda, where people who were born in Uganda and whose parents were born in Uganda, and whose grand parents were Ugandan, and who would never be considered 'white' in Europe, or America, faced discrimination from Africans because their great great grand parents were born somewhere else.
When they came to America, even though they weren't considered white, they were held in a higher account than those Americans with African ancestors, who would have been their oppressors back home.
India, Indians, and the Indian caste system had no bearing on that situation. Missisippi Masala was about the fact that the illogic of racism is ingrained in many different cultures, not just the US.
That may very well, be, but the movie, not the subtext of a depiction, etc., was about an Indian girl who falls in love with a black guy in Mississippi. I have a lot of Indian friends, and being that I was married to a Sri Lankan, I know how many families in that region feel about marrying outside their race, caste, etc. They, typically, do not like it. It wasn't so much a hurdle for me, in that he was marrying a white girl from the States, who they deemed - after much "interrogation" from people close to his parents who lived in the States and met me - suitable to marry their son. Most of the Indians, Pakistanis, Afganis, and Sri Lankans I know (that is to say, only the ones I know, not all of the people from these countries), do not feel warm and fuzzy to black people. It was funny, in a sad way, that my ex husband thought of himself as more superior to black people and other minorities, even though I constantly told him that minorities were minorities. He and several of our friends from various countries overseas tried to explain to me that there is a hierarchy in the way they see each themselves in comparison to other minorities.
What I was saying in one of my earlier posts is that while racial or ethnic bias exists, there is also the bias of the casts system and social standing. I know it, because I lived it for 15 years, here and in India and Sri Lanka.
*end intellectual posting*
*now back to the groping* [8D]
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