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aLkaLiNE on 04 September 2017
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eva01beserk said:
aLkaLiNE said:
So here's the problem with racism and social media. What difference does it make where the parents came from? What point is there in saying they are from India? You could remove the word "India/Indian" from the article and suddenly it doesn't become as sensational. Aside from the borderline racist/prejudice comments in here, India has a lower domestic violence rate than the US. This has nothing to do with people from India so why is that a focal point? Honestly, racism wouldn't be as big of a deal as it is if the media wasn't constantly focusing on the color/race/religion of people. Saying "parents from India" serves no better purpose than "Florida mans parents". And you can see the ignorance in this very thread where some people are commenting things like, 'well this is expected from those people'. No. It's really not. There are more cases of domestic violence here in the US than there is in India per 100,000 people so that's a bullshit excuse. We need to stop extrapolating one bad apple to the whole bunch because the reality of the situation is that someone can be fucked up and not represent their culture and that is true almost every single time. Once we can stop looking at factors of race color or religion, racism itself will disappear. Instead of, 'it's what these people do', it will become 'what THAT person did' and I think that everyone world wide would be better off for it.


More on topic though - it's sad that this family felt that they had to meet disobedience with abuse. I feel sorry for the family and my condolences go out to the wife affected.

So what do you say to the 2 or 3 on this who said they are from india and a part of them the punjabi where they claim is comon? Is it racist to agree with them?

You know why its important to say they came from india, because this woud never happen in th west. If they hid it, like people in sweeden or germany hide muslim identitys when they commit crimes, people start to question and ask why then it becomes a bigger issue. By hiding things to not sound racist, then when that comes out it causes a biger uproar and you end up doing more damage.

And Im calling BS on the crime per capita thing. Not because of racism, but becaue of wealth. Crime, abuse, drugs,poor education, disorder and all that is always higher the more impoberish the place. While india does seem to be growing and has many booming citys and econmis in them, the majority dont benefit from it and it where you will see this types of behabiours. And Im from a developing country myself so I have seen the diference of the developed side and the other and you would think is another country with diferent morals, belives and everithing. Even with laws that condem the act, no enforcemen is present so its still rampant.

All Im trying to say is that its not rcist to say a specific group has a problem. If we dont point it out, or say is more prebelent there, then they will never fix it, or some other party push them to fix it.

This shit happens all the time in the west, proportionally more than it does in India which is something I pointed out so what are you even talking about? This is not an issue exclusive or even prominent in India, it's an issue that's more common here in the west! Them saying it mainly comes from punjabi would be no different than me saying there are higher concentrations of domestic violence in Detroit or Watts, NY. So then, why are we generalizing it all as India? That's just perpetuating racism to the ignorant people such as yourself that believe it's an entire group of people when it's not even a majority of that people, it's an isolated thing that happened for one family. This has -nothing- to do with race or religion or culture therefore I ask, why are we bringing those factors into this?  It's (domestic violence) an issue that every culture deals with. Some more so than others. America more than india in this case. But go ahead and call BS on your anecdotal gut feeling. I'll trust statistics given by our very own government more so than some random poster on the Internet.

 

This isn't hiding things to not sound racist. This is bringing race into something that has no root in race. Which is racism. India as a specific group doesn't have more of a problem than Americans do. You are welcome to ignorantly believe they do without any facts to back up your claim though. I suppose we've already topped out as far as social progression goes anyway.