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minus-squareTheEmpireStrikesDak@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkarrow-up7·13 hours agoRight? My cousin is as Indian as I am (her parents are my parents’ siblings), but she frequently has to convince people she’s Indian British and not white British. Whereas I’m very obviously south Asian.
minus-squareArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·21 hours agoI have in mind the people I’ve worked with - I would have known where they were from even if they were lighter-skinned.
minus-squarecoolman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 hours agoI’m a white dude and I work with an Indian guy that’s lighter skinned than I am
minus-squaredb2@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·19 hours agoThat still fits with what I was saying. I wasn’t assigning a negative meaning to it.
That you’ve noticed.
Right? My cousin is as Indian as I am (her parents are my parents’ siblings), but she frequently has to convince people she’s Indian British and not white British. Whereas I’m very obviously south Asian.
I have in mind the people I’ve worked with - I would have known where they were from even if they were lighter-skinned.
I’m a white dude and I work with an Indian guy that’s lighter skinned than I am
That still fits with what I was saying. I wasn’t assigning a negative meaning to it.