Indian hatred for dark skin comes from caste bias
September 28, 2016  13:35
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"Why does skin tone still lend itself to jokes? How is it funny to call someone dark? I don't get it. In the India of 2016, I still have to be apologetic about my skin tone? What is this white-skin hangover? Where does all our pride as a nation go away when it comes to the acceptance that most of us have a darker skin tone? Once I was asked, " Your surname is Chatterjee? Oh you are Brahmin' What is your mothers surname? Maitra! Oh'. She is Brahmin too'' And then indirectly he hinted how is my skin tone still dark?"


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