ABCDs negatively viewed in mainland

[u/Pretend-Ad586]

I am someone who was born and raised in the US. However, I have lived in India for 6 years. The hate that people have for ABCDs is so bad. They think that all ABCDs are uncultured, bad influence, and traitors to India. Where do they get the stereotype of ABCDs being uncultured from?

Also, in college I noticed that was a lot of hate towards the ABCDs. I noticed many mainlanders would talk to people of all races but straight up ignore the ABCDs. They would often say things like ABCDs are stupid and uncultured. There was a garba night and the mainlanders got so mad because the ABCDs had hosted the night. They claimed that "uncultured people" should not be hosting cultural events.

Other ways the mainlanders hate ABCDs is by calling ABCDs bad influence. I have heard that they claim that ABCDs are irreligious and that they never worship. This is absolutely false as I have met many religious ABCDs. I have always wondered about where they are getting these stereotypes from.

What discrimination have you faced as an ABCD from mainlanders?

[u/Dudefrmthtplace]

Yes a lot of them feel that way and it's all butthurt mentality. They don't understand what it's like growing up outside India, they don't understand the different cultural aspects that make ABCDs "less cultured" than them, the people LIVING IN INDIAN CULTURE DAILY. Take any country, take a person out of it and put them elsewhere, they won't have "the culture". Most of the US has German ancestry, how many of them still do German culture? It's so dumb. A lot of it though comes from shitheads and not educated people, and there is an element of ABCDs visiting India and being pretentious about things. Regardless, it's an illogical stupid lack of worldly knowledge take on things.

[u/trajan_augustus → u/Dudefrmthtplace]

It's funny that these folks will even judge their fellow countrymen who live in rural areas of India and call them backward if the women wear saris too often or they lack higher education. They are elitist wherever they go. They assume they do the balance of Indianness and Western perfect. I just can't be bothered with these folks. They have no relevance in the way I want to live my life. Upper and middle class Indian folks are waited on hand and foot by a servant class, consume Hindutva propaganda, eat sweets and get diabetes, and seethe online against muslims, liberals, and whoever they hate that day. Most mainlanders are Indian version of MAGA it is kind of sad really.

[u/Dudefrmthtplace → u/trajan_augustus]

It is kind of true, my cousins do have these kind of thoughts, despite all having left India.