But the stereotype of the simpering South Asian ingratiating the master has its roots in British colonialism, the manservant serving the memsahib. It's racist and I don't doubt most of the ppl telling us about a privilege I as of today still lack see us as Apu
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They see us South Asians that way because we are still ultimately foreign to them, and it's easier to blame what you fear instead of name what you fear. I am not white, and have never been treated as a white person.
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Even when I've gained access to spaces run by white people, I've never been able to succeed or integrate because I talk different, I speak my native language, I grew up eating Desi food and being what I am. And of course, always opposed US imperialism.
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It is incredible to see privileged South Asians with Ivy League educations and suburban mannerisms simper about privilege and dishonor the history and struggle of the people of our subcontinent... all because they are made to feel and act like white ppl bc 'model minority'.
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The abundance of Hindu-American Indians who fret about their privilege or forget those in the South Asian American community victimized and politicized against imperialism (Islamophobia is a form of imperialism) exist...
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Did none of you read Vijay Prashad, 'committing model minority suicide'? Either way, those of us from Bush's Greater Middle East lost that luxury after 9/11, which for most of my generation is the greater part of our lives.
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Do not call South Asians 'white adjacent' when in the colorist logos of America we've always been racialized, and rarely if ever white passed... do not project your trauma (all races, even white ppl) on a people not responsible for it.
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Do not claim to be revolutionary if you're not interested in understanding the people that came out of one of the most grueling and massive struggles against capitalist and colonial exploitation with the British, and later became a leading force in the Third World.
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I've had Arab Americans, African Americans and the inevitable white liberal tell me about how South Asian Americans are privileged, even though nobody who has said this to me has actually done any work in or with my community -
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What do you think I'm doing, charity? I show up for these causes because they directly impact me as a brown woman, a Muslim, a person affected by US imperialism.
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Perhaps this problem doesn't exist in say, New York, which has a big and somewhat organized working class South Asian population. But it exists in provincial zones where South Asians are truly a minority.
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I'm not interested in working with people from all races - even South Asians themselves - who don't prioritize our people. it's not nationalism or id politics, it's a basic grasp of how we're affected by US racism and imperialism.
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and how we should organize based on that. if we are not rooted in our communities, then our political work is only half-complete.
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with that being said, self-hating South Asians can either make themselves relevant by using their taboo access to resources to be useful to those of us rooted in our communities who actually want to make a difference. or you can get lost.
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