@VishMahabir posted:I read an article about this sometime ago.
Much of what is reported here about Indian racism towards Africans in India probably misinterpreted. There are Indians who treat their own relatives and friends in a similar way. For most Indians, the African in India is a novelty.
But there is also a history of Indians who live in Africa being treated in a similar or worst way by Africans in those countries. Idi Amin and Uganda comes to mind. Most of the Indians were driven out from Uganda..
This does not excuse the behavior of the Nigerians who are now residing and studying in India. But they have no moral basis to accuse Indians of racism when their countrymen have practised an extreme form of racism against Indians.
Amin's expulsion of Asians in 1973 was an act of a demented, ignorant leader. He thought that the cheating Indian business people could have been easily replaced by cheating African business people. He failed to realize that there is an art to cheating that the Indians had perfected and the Africans couldn't imagine. Now Vish Mohabir claims that while actions like Amin's cannot be used to justify the treatment of Nigerian students in India he nevertheless asserts that "they have no moral basis to accuse Indians of racism when their countrymen have practised an extreme form of racism against Indians". Well, Vish, Africa is not a country and Nigeria is not Uganda. What does the current issue have to do with Amin's expulsion of Asians? Does the fact that Amin's action was cruel mean that Nigerians cannot complain about discrimination they face in India today? What kind of warped logic is this? It must be knuckleheaderism!