i’m actually a 1.5 from banaras. regardless, i was just really showing my frustration with the way folks treat our immigrant brothers round here in jersey. oh and this guy, steve, commenting on this post on sajaforum.org look at the a$$013′s link when you click on his name.

You think people aren’t saying nasty things about Michael Vick’s color in closed company? Of course they are, but because people call out racism against black people they are much less likely to do it in public for fear of being ostracized. That’s obviously not the case with browns (yet)

I’m not at all excusing the racist posters highlighted in this piece, I have no doubt they believe in their hearts the vitrol they write about. However, I do think that the whole blog culture and the anonymity they offer commenters is something to be looked it. I wonder if it taps into the darker side of the human psyche. Just random thoughts…

but can not first-gens be americans as well? to me, being american is more a political concept than a cultural one, and because of this, i think you are as american as you feel – i.e. you define how american you are, and not anybody else. my parents, who have been here for over forty years, are not americans for the very simple fact that they don’t define themselves as such – they perpetually distinguish themselves (and their children) from ‘americans.’ however, plenty of non-native borns would identify themselves as americans. shlok was not clear whether he was referring to ABDs or DBDs, but i think his statement could just as easily apply to our DBD bloggers as to their ABD counterparts.

Yes, that’s why it probably hurts you more when people say “go back to where you came from” or suggest that you don’t belong in America. It’s a little easier for us first generation immigrants to accept. (Still ticks us off, though.)

Before we start pointing fingers at how racist the Americans are, let ask ourselves how racist we are.

maybe just wrong choice of words. but it’s my understanding we, most bloggers and commenters, here are Americans as well.

Was he a “foreigner” too?

What about that?

So you comment on a blogpost about an Indian shopkeeper’s misdeeds and you want people NOT to assume that you’re talking about her misdeeds. You are a troll.

SM Intern, please correct me if this is not a troll.

For God’s (whichever you believe in, FSM would do fine too ) sake, READ what I typed. I didn’t talk about ANYONE’s misdeeds. I just talked about ‘behaviour’. It could have meant good, bad or worse behaviour. Your prejudiced mind couldn’t see beyond your parochial views, so you assumed (wrongly at that) that I meant ONLY bad behaviour. Your diseased outlook couldn’t interpret anything else, could it?

And no, I am not a troll. Another baseless assumption/ conclusion on your part. I just wanted the expose the psychology that’s behind the celebrated 40 comments that are the subject of so much discussion.

Just as the aforementioned comments & their commentators exposed their racist streaks when they connected ONE shopkeepers behaviour with her race & proceeded to display their intelligence, you did the same by misinterpreting my statement.

You twisted my single-line comment to mean what you wanted it to mean, just so that you could please yourself by refuting it. Bad luck, your narrow-mindedness stands exposed.

And if you have noticed, only you have replied to my posts. Now, who is a troll?