I’m white British so when I went out to India for my honeymoon years ago I was thinking maybe there’d be some residual anti-colonial feelings, despite my Asian friends telling me that’s nonsense. In fact, when they realised I wasn’t Australian but actually a genuine English person they wanted photos taken with me as proof they’d met someone British in real life, or let their kids say hi to an English person. World’s a very funny place sometimes
The linked article probably hypothesises it best by saying the caste system has things in common with Hitler’s racism (with the Jews as the untouchables and the Aryans as the high castes); but it genuinely seems like one of those cultural quirks that doesn’t have a particular reason.
Slightly off topic but it’s interesting that in India they don’t really get the hate for Adolf. Mein Kampf still sells well over there.
(https://m.timesofindia.com/india/why-hitler-is-not-a-dirty-word-in-india/amp_articleshow/63955029.cms)
I’m white British so when I went out to India for my honeymoon years ago I was thinking maybe there’d be some residual anti-colonial feelings, despite my Asian friends telling me that’s nonsense. In fact, when they realised I wasn’t Australian but actually a genuine English person they wanted photos taken with me as proof they’d met someone British in real life, or let their kids say hi to an English person. World’s a very funny place sometimes
Sorry, very off topic
That’s extremely curious. Why is that?
The linked article probably hypothesises it best by saying the caste system has things in common with Hitler’s racism (with the Jews as the untouchables and the Aryans as the high castes); but it genuinely seems like one of those cultural quirks that doesn’t have a particular reason.
They sell Hitler mouse mats.