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LIFE.
Working with BS.
1/n
Working with a Brown Sepoy means all your office social events are CRINGE fests. (Yes, in uppercase.)

The BS is so desperate for white approval that he'll say the most idiotic thing, including comments on drinking, vegetarianism, Indian parenting +
2/n
"Indians never drink in front of their parents even at this age."
"My parents beat me for eating chicken."
"We never ate with people of other castes."
"My marriage was arranged."

Cue. White people laugh.
BS swells with pride for having just supposedly met (cliched)
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expectations.

STOP. Shut up. STFU.

Your experiences, while valid, don't represent everyone's experiences. And really you don't need to help scratch their anthropological itch. And honestly no one cares. No one else is sharing their experiences; why do you think this is +
4/n
appropriate dinner-table conversation?

If the conversation shifts to politics, corruption is the favorite topic of choice. The BS will say everything possible to prove how corrupt India is in contrast to the US.
Cue. White people laugh.
BS swells with pride for having +
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just supposedly met (cliched) expectations.

STOP. Shut up. STFU.

Once when a BS was done with his.. lol BS, I jumped in & said: Not so fast. How about gerrymandering and campaign-financing?

The table went quiet.

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Logical Questions. #45
"Is hating White people mandatory?"

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So yes, I support BLM. I support POC. FFS, I am brown. I will speak up if I see racist behavior. Yes, I stand in solidarity with PoC. Again, FFS, I am brown.

But is hating white people mandatory? Is it necessary
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2/n
 to prove your "empathy-for-black-people quotient"? I am sorry, if it is, I cannot play that game. I will not indulge in identity-politics.
While racism & racists exist, I've interacted with some wonderful White people. And yes, I've personally encountered racism -
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from ALL colors. Yes all colors.

And to those who think some of us brown peeps are not vocal enough because we are tickled pink by being called "model minority". Moorkh! I don't need a patta of recognition. Whatever I do is because even at my age, what my parents think
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1/n "BROWN PRIVILEGE"

You know who has brown privilege? I'll tell you exactly who has BP. The 2nd-gen Desi kids who were given *everything* by their parents. You & your 50k+/year education, extra-curricular crap, your perfect accent...
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You who walk into rooms, perfectly groomed & mostly good looking (thanks to your genes), just the right touch of ethnic/exotic...utterly comfortable in white spaces that your parents slogged to get you entry into.

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 Comfortable in the cultural context & multi-talented beyond belief because your parents drove you back-and-forth from one class to another even as they made sure dinner was freshly-made.
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Personal Stories. #0. 'Cuz that's where it all starts.
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 My father came from a poor family of 10 children (2 died young, so there were 8 eventually. He was (is) brilliant & in the small village where he grew up, had friends across caste & class lines. +
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 Thanks to his gift of gab he gained access to friendships with rich peeps (read this statement in the context of the 50s & 60s) who would've otherwise never given him the time of the day. (Those folks are still his friends 😊)
He got into Engineering college on merit +
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 & paid for his first 3 years via a scholarship which he eventually lost because he was a student leader & threw the bad mess food on the VC's table. 😬Yup. He was THAT dude. (He flirted with RSS & ABVP, but got disenchanted.)
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