The on going real estate ‘boom’ threatens to leave these in the shade – the ones being exploited would be described as very Indic. Powerful interests vs powerless (individually at least) is what it is, IMO. The house my parents built is on land that was earmarked ‘tribal’ (we bought it from someone who bought it for peanuts from tribal people). Cities and towns need to expand and agricultural, tribal and forest lands are magically transformed into commercially tradable property. Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Kolkata… this is relentless. Only consolation is when there is any compensation.

KolaNutTechie, not to belittle the importance of what you are talking about, but there is a sense of perspective that is missing here. Who indeed are ‘Indic’ people (I’m sure you will have answers to that from Hindutva-obsessed nuts)? That is an ironic comment.

I brought up Biharis, because they have been facing the brunt of extremism in recent years. The Bengalis you mention are refugees from Bangladesh, most of whom are settled from during the partition, and many more still coming in through the porous borders, from Bangladesh

No, it’s actually two different premises.

1.) Minorities don’t have equal opportunities in China, full-stop. 2.) The PRC floods those areas with Han Chinese migrants to swamp them so that they never get uppity.

Their logic:

Whose logic is this? Who are “they?”

Either you’ve been watching too much Fox or I suggest you read Pallavi Aiyar to get a more balanced view. Attitudes like that remind me of people who give all credit of victory in WW2 to Churchill. Their logic: Stalin was a murderer, hence he could not be given credit for winning the war. Your logic: Han migrate into minority areas hence minorities don’t have equal opportunities in China. Really, we don’t mind Biharis (Why use Biharis as a pejorative when its the Bengalis who are really flooding NE) and other Indians coming into our territories as long as the same constitutional right is extended to us more than just in principle. Its a tough task because the Indic people will never accept other foreign looking people except maybe Whites because of an old master slave matrix. State sponsored terror like this makes India’s case even worse: http://www.tehelka.com/story_main42.asp?filename=Ne080809murder_in.asp

Without meaning ill to the India we are better off with China (We look like them, right?) atleast Communism guarantees equality in theory.

And the Uighurs and all other minorities in China would disagree too. Communism in China will give you equality if you are Han Chinese, not otherwise. If NE was under China, it would be flooded by ethnic Han chinese by now from Eastern and Southern China, as is the policy of China, and the de-facto people of NE would still live in the economic misery it is in now, with added oppression and seeing the loss of land and jobs go to ethnic Hans. The scale of migration of Han chinese are massive in magnitude, compared to say migration of bihari laborers to Assam, because the former is a state sponsored policy, whereas the latter is not (and also in terms of numbers).

I’ve found that we, being minorities, tend to overplay the role our race plays in bad treatment we may get.

Usually what I’ve experienced is that jackasses are out to hurt your feelings and they will use whatever they think will harsh your mellow most effectively. If they can rag on your for your race that’s what they will do. If not your race then it will be something else. Usually it’s more a consequence of assholes doing what assholes do rather than assholes targeting me specifically for being Indian. That happens from time to time as well, but more rarely.