Stereotypes
Have you seen those ads of fairness creams where they give away free shade-cards for you to gauge the improvement in ur skin tone?
That’s not the change of the color of your skin you are measuring there. It’s the rise of your self-esteem and social status.
Staying in a city like this, feels like everybody has those cards over here. They do not use it for themselves, but to judge how well they should treat you.
It’s like those movie ratings you look at to decide whether to watch the movie or not. And these rating are not even given according to performance, in this case. It’s been given outta whim, massive compound superiority/ inferiority complexes or just the basic human nature of differentiating itself from others.
There’s a constant you vs. me here when two nationalities interact. And victory takes place just by the way the person looks. From his descent. From his nationality.
Why can’t this place be more about “Us”? Why can’t this place be more human?
This is a rant because of a fight I had with the staff at a supposedly hi-class store here, when I was clearly mistreated and shouted upon because I am an Indian. Not to worry… I put them in their place.
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Good show.
It’s like that across the world :). Everyone wants to belong to something and then do things to reassure them that their belongingness is better than the other. Helps them to push and shove too. Nationalities, profession, backgrounds, tastes in music, blah blah bling bling. Sad that the society lets us get away with that.
austere - thank you
apurv - Those deliberate segregations are there everywhere but I think its more to do with the lack of freedom of speech and prevelance of fear in this place.