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I'm so white nurses have complimented me on how easy it is for them to find a vein and I just want to say I love this thread and the posters in it. My partner is an American Latina sociologist and my experience is limited to spending my childhood in a country where I was a visible minority. Having to develop a whole new understanding when we started dating was a struggle and this thread helps me learn and understand things I didn't previously. Thanks for posting and I'll go back to the lurker's corner now.
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JFairfax posted:She is indian, they're totally fine with a caste system
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negromancer posted:India is horrifically racist against black people. It just would have left a sour taste in my mouth if I saw something like that written somewhere and not at least say something.
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FactsAreUseless posted:Is it an extension of the caste stuff, or something else? From what I understand, caste. As a non-Hindu you are the worst of all things, a mleccha, non-vedic, casteless, even worse than a sudra. Which in a culture that places (nowadays) a heavy emphasis on correct caste, marrying outside of that is even worse than marrying the "wrong" caste. On top of that Indian society is heavily patriarchal, with a strong bent toward the idea that you don't just marry the person, you marry the family, with a lot of pressure from your relatives to marry arranged. Even today it's frighteningly common for young people who have what is called a "love marriage" (as opposed to an arranged one) to have to cut off contact with their families entirely or risk the very real chance of having their spouse, themselves, or both of them get murdered. There's probably a lot more I could write but I don't want to derail a good thread into caste system chat.
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