Buddy, I think your fundamental problem is that you see in Indian people who and what you want to see. Furthermore, you most likely see in fellow desis only what non-desis give you permission to see. I dont think I have ever been called “black” or the n-word. I can also tell you that I know desis that would be mistaken as white, desis that would be mistaken as black if they put a baseball cap on, and those that look like tan mexicans crossing the border. Im sure youre crunching the numbers right now.. “Wait a min there arent that many indians that look white!” Oh no! Stop the presses! I think in your pathetic little world all desis should look the way you look, worship the way you worship, feel the way you feel – oh and not to mention like your mummies cooking. Thats the only “ignorant and stupid” point of view that Ive seen so far.

The more you post the more you expose your ignorance and stupidity. Please explain how indians getting mistaken as belonging to a very diverse group that includes dark-skinned africans, south asians and native central americans proves indian diversity.

If you need further proof of Indian diversity after the multiple academic genetic studies that I have shown you then you are either a troll, or one of the dumbest Indians I have ever had the misfortune of coming across.

Obviously this selective mentioning is an expression of a deeply servile inferiority complex vis a vis white europeans. Anon and his ilk must think that being mistaken for an arab or hispanic is very flattering to their tormented slavish egos, since unlike desis there is a large percentage of hispanics and arabs who do look white. What’s funny is how utterly illogical their reasoning is: if desis are mistaken for arabs and hispanics they are not being mistaken for the arabs or hispanics who look white, but for those who are dark-skinned like desis.

The more you post the more you expose your ignorance and stupidity. Please explain how indians getting mistaken as belonging to a very diverse group that includes dark-skinned africans, south asians and native central americans proves indian diversity.

True and telling. You can be sure that Anon and the rest of the “I have been mistaken for a hispanic/arab” crowd have been called “black” or the N-word far more often. But they are too ashamed, too dishonest and too cowardly to admit it. Unlike Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar etc who were seen as black or african when in America, by both white and black americans, and weren’t ashamed to mention it.

Of course desis can sometimes be mistaken for arabs or hispanics since these people are extremely diverse in looks and many of them have african and south asian blood, just as many of them look european. Also mongoloid in the case of hispanics. What’s ridiculous however is how so many foolish desi braggards think that being mistaken for a dark-skinned hispanic or arab is the equivalent of not looking like a desi.

But you’ll never come across an Indian who brags that he/she regularly gets mistaken for a Black.

Not necessarily. Vijay Prashad noticed that there are some connections between writers of the Dalit movement, like V. T. Rajshekar, and the Afrocentric movement, like Runoko Rashidi. He referred to it as a “submerged network of Afro-Dalit literature”.

Many Hare Krishnas denounce other relgions and ways of life.

Please keep in mind that many Hare Krishnas are former evangelical Christians who have brought over cultural baggage from their former faith. A few years ago, Manish wrote a post about ISKCON supporting intelligent design.

Im not saying that there’s pride in being mistaken for another race.. I’m saying that it can happen. You are correct in saying that Latin America is not exclusive in this respect which all the more supports my arguement. What I’m debating is that there is no “true diversity” in India while it’s “true” eveywhere else..