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Indian/ Black Relations

posted 20 years ago by cleveland_1999
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I was recently watching Bend It Like Beckham and I remember the locker room scene in which Jess (Parminder Nagra) was explaing that she was not promised to anyone and that the would not be able to marry a White, Black or a Muslim. I have ready about how some Indians feel about Muslims and Caucasians, but I have not found anything about how they feel about Blacks. I was wondering how some Indians may feel about Blacks to help explain why her character says that in the movie. Also that would seem weird since there seems like there might be a good deal of dark-skin people in India as well as there being a good amount of Indians living in Africa.

[–] NutInAHut 14 years ago

Indians are hung up on color, even to this day. Have you noticed that there aren't that many dark skinned Indians as actors in their own films? Amitabh Bachchan wasn't even going to be an actor if he wasn't friends with someone important, simply because he was "too dark". I think now they're trying to be more open, but not as much as you'd hope. Maybe the Indians married into your family without much of an issue because you and your family are not dark.

[–] EmperorOfDragons (297) 7 years ago

Indians hate white people, But would marry them before black people. I mean just look at Navi Rawat. She married Nick Nolte's son