Internalised. Hmmm.
Sent from my iPad On Jul 21, 2012, at 7:37 PM, ss <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday 21 Jul 2012 7:07:45 pm Nikhil Mehra wrote: >> I think racism came to be recognized as unacceptable as a matter of law >> only after WW II. > > Probably. Europe, the dominant continent before WW2 were in search of some > ancient history and Germany found that in the form of "Aryan" and stuck a > finger up the backside of the rest of Europe. > > The first Indian to emigrate to the US as per Wiki was a Bengali > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.K._Mozumdar >> In 1913 Mozumdar became the first Indian-born person to earn U.S. >> citizenship, having convinced the Spokane district judge that he was in >> fact Caucasian and thereby met the requirements of naturalization law then >> restricting citizenship to "free white persons". > > Ten years later a Punjabi was refused immigration on the following grounds > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Bhagat_Singh_Thind >> The eligibility of this applicant for citizenship is based on the sole fact >> that he is of high caste Hindu stock, born in Punjab [Amrit Sar], one of >> the extreme northwestern districts of India, and classified by many >> scientific authorities as of the Caucasian or Aryan race...In the Punjab >> and Rajputana [Rajasthan], while the invaders seem to have met with more >> success in the effort to preserve their racial purity, intermarriages did >> occur producing an intermingling of the two and destroying to a greater or >> less degree the purity of the “Aryan” blood. The rules of caste, while >> calculated to prevent this intermixture, seem not to have been entirely >> successful... the given group [Asian Indian] cannot be properly assigned >> to any of the enumerated grand racial divisions. The type may have been so >> changed by intermixture of blood as to justify an intermediate >> classification. Something very like this has actually taken place in >> India. Thus, in Hindustan [India] and Berar [town in India] there was such >> an intermixture of the “Aryan” invader with the dark-skinned Dravidian > > It is ironic that the Bengali got in and the Punjabi was turned down because > a > few decades later the Muslims among the two ethnic groups (Bengali and > Punjabi) were clubbed together in one country united by Islam as West > Pakistanis and East Pakistanis. Benazir Bhutto once said that she had been > taught in school that West Pakistans were tall, had white skin and ate wheat. > East Pakistanis were short, had a dark complexion and ate rice. > > Of course the original Gunga Din of Kipling was from the Indian northwest - > which included Indian and Pakistani Punjab and the North West Frontier > Province, whence the Taliban come from. But after the Indian army revolt of > 1857 the British army made it a point to recruit the relatvely apolitical > north-western Indian and were suspicious of the politicking "Bengalee". The > former were praised as "martial races" who were immune to syphilis among > other > valuable traits. This mythical trait, I am told, was internalized by the > Pakistan army. > > LOL > > shiv >
