Last year I went to Delhi India for a month as a volunteer at an adoption agency(organised by my university faculty) and it was cool going to another country, I learnt a lot about Indian culture and everything was cheap(I got a major case of food poisoning doe) but one thing that annoyed the fuc out of me when I was in India is that I noticed all the beggars were dark skinned people and were called "Dalits" or untouchable. They were employed as prostitutes, street cleaners, beggars, and were virtually slaves to the shop owners and business people who were Invariably lighter skinned. One of my colleagues even told me that these dark skinned Dalits shadows couldn't even touch the shadow of the higher caste people as they are considered animals. Now I already knew about the caste system before my trip, I know that some groups are considered filthy and subhuman spiritually, but I thought it was a tribal/poverty thing and not a racial complex. If it is racial, why aren't we condemning Indian society for the endemic systemic racism that is still present and treat India like aparthied South Africa. When I left that country I was getting them feels for my dark skinned curry Brehs . I gave all my rubies to some Dalit child beggars when I left.
Indians racist as fuc? Can any of my Indian Brehs explain the caste system
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OG_StankBrefs
Da Spice...
http://www.chinasmack.com/2010/pictures/filthy-india-photos-chinese-netizen-reactions.htmlhtml
Red dot nikkas got more pressing issues than melanin hues.
Red dot nikkas got more pressing issues than melanin hues.
Ricky Church
Stole Timberlake's Spaceship-Coupe
there's like 4 threads on this subject already somewhere in the system.
dennis roadman
nuclear war in my bag
how you gonna go all the way to india and experience something and come back home and ask the coli to explain it to you? 
Well It was more of a rhetorical q, this is more about why we ain't treating India more like apartheid South Africa. I hardly spoke to the locals so I wouldnt know the intricacies of the caste system but I know it's racist. But I'm still coming from a place of ignorance if you get my drift. I think hardly anyone talked about it when I was volunteering but it's there.how you gonna go all the way to india and experience something and come back home and ask the coli to explain it to you?
rogue_riezo
Les Enfants Terribles
http://www.chinasmack.com/2010/pictures/filthy-india-photos-chinese-netizen-reactions.htmlhtml
Red dot nikkas got more pressing issues than melanin hues.
I'm not Indian but I'll answer..........and no the caste system is not based on skin color.
Lower caste people being generally being dark skinned is due to their labor. Lower caste people were given hard physical labor under the blazing Sun for centuries. Due to this many lower caste members have very dark skin and are therefore immediately identifiable as low caste. Upper caste people weren't required to do the same labor so of course they'd be fairer toned. Also with people from upper castes being unwilling to marry people from the lower castes the lower castes have to marry from within, creating an even high probability of lower caste people being darkskinned.
Nah, it existed for thousand of years