Some are supposed matters of pride like how Calcutta was electrified in the 19 th century, just after New York or something. I am thus subject to a constant stream of "information", some fake some real. And horrors, that I want to know every last bit of pointless information available on the Internet and WhatsApp forwards about Calcutta. The sweet kind is one that assumes that I am an expert on Mamata Banerjee - I’m telling you now, I’m not related - the current chief minister of Bengal. This pigeon-holing means that I get both the best and the worst of stereotyping. But because it places me somewhere, assumptions that made that Bengal is the only place where I belong. I even insist that it’s pronounced the way Bengalis do. Regardless of the reality or even the feelings of the person being boxed in.Īnd sometimes, people assume where you’re from.įor me, it’s my name that pins me down. It attempts to bound you by place of "origin". Of course, white majoritarian racism makes no sense because all humans originated out of Africa.īut even if it is harmless in intent, it is annoying to the listener. Discrimination is disguised as geography. If you are not white and you live in a predominantly white country, the question implies that you have no right to live there because of your skin colour. Depending on context, this can be an extremely racist and painful remark.
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