Recently I was readin an article on Racism and attacks on Indians in Australia and currently guess our beloved Obama is in thick of Racism too... But the article threw up an interestin point which had crossed my mind too and thought I would bring it up with my readers for a discussion.
Sure we all saw how animated our ministers to the common man was ventin their anger on the RACISM which happened down under. Well definitely its nice to know that our thoughts and feelings were addressed by our beloved politicians but my contention is why do we limit ourselves when we get attacked in a foreign country???? Don't we all say that we should only complain about others once we set our house in order???? Then why aren't we makin a hue and cry about our own racism which is widely prevalent in India???? and beat this its socially accepted!!!!!! Talk about irony....
Well still wonderin about what racism we have in India????? Well just check out any matrimonial site or ads in the newspapers and you would see what I'm talkin off. Coz all the men need fair and beautiful lookin women and the women advertise saying they are very fair to fair and beautiful looking!!!!!!!! and whatever happens to women and men who are of the darker shade???? oh yeah its socially acceptable, then why would we term it as Racism???? huh?????.. Talk about double standards.
Worse, surprisingly China and India are the biggest market for fairness cream. I understand India but why the Chinesee???? Well supposedly even being really fair for them fetches them a good bridegroom in the market. Ahhhhhh!!!! And our ads, I personally think we should sue them. Check this ad where the woman and the family is depressed coz she is dark, thanks to a particular fairness cream, she becomes fair and lands up with a plum job tooo.. why would you do that???? Isn't it RACISM at its best????? Naaaaaa again we would be told its socially acceptable. I would say itz Nonsense. There are other stories where you are looked down upon if you have a dark child and if its a girl even more worse but hell we are more worried about bein attacked down under.
Well anyways, not to lose heart for the darker shaded folks, I've been told by a friend of mine if you are of a darker shade and well sculpted body (that takes some hard work ;-) ) you are treated as GODs by the women in Italy. Go try your luck there :P
Lastly, if we go by the matrimonial site/ads demand we would be one hell of a healthy nation, coz not only do they want fair but also slim woman guess thatz another discussion all together.
Sure we all saw how animated our ministers to the common man was ventin their anger on the RACISM which happened down under. Well definitely its nice to know that our thoughts and feelings were addressed by our beloved politicians but my contention is why do we limit ourselves when we get attacked in a foreign country???? Don't we all say that we should only complain about others once we set our house in order???? Then why aren't we makin a hue and cry about our own racism which is widely prevalent in India???? and beat this its socially accepted!!!!!! Talk about irony....
Well still wonderin about what racism we have in India????? Well just check out any matrimonial site or ads in the newspapers and you would see what I'm talkin off. Coz all the men need fair and beautiful lookin women and the women advertise saying they are very fair to fair and beautiful looking!!!!!!!! and whatever happens to women and men who are of the darker shade???? oh yeah its socially acceptable, then why would we term it as Racism???? huh?????.. Talk about double standards.
Worse, surprisingly China and India are the biggest market for fairness cream. I understand India but why the Chinesee???? Well supposedly even being really fair for them fetches them a good bridegroom in the market. Ahhhhhh!!!! And our ads, I personally think we should sue them. Check this ad where the woman and the family is depressed coz she is dark, thanks to a particular fairness cream, she becomes fair and lands up with a plum job tooo.. why would you do that???? Isn't it RACISM at its best????? Naaaaaa again we would be told its socially acceptable. I would say itz Nonsense. There are other stories where you are looked down upon if you have a dark child and if its a girl even more worse but hell we are more worried about bein attacked down under.
Well anyways, not to lose heart for the darker shaded folks, I've been told by a friend of mine if you are of a darker shade and well sculpted body (that takes some hard work ;-) ) you are treated as GODs by the women in Italy. Go try your luck there :P
Lastly, if we go by the matrimonial site/ads demand we would be one hell of a healthy nation, coz not only do they want fair but also slim woman guess thatz another discussion all together.
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nice and crisp!! hv writtn sumthn simmilar bt thn d technicalities that u'v include make it a much polished presentation with a comparitv statemnt!! thtz again anthr issue we ppl suffr 4m! until n unless we compare our selves..we cnt relate 2 d thing!!! KUDOS
ReplyDeleteThanks Shailaja!!!! I hope I've done justice to the article and yeah guess we all need benchmarks, just that we end up stretchin the definition ;-)!
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