Recent news of an affluent Indian family strictly not allowing the African staff may have come as a bizzare incident to many. But a closer look at home and we have the answers despite being ourselves being of "the other color" there is an unspoken fixation to the "fairer color" in our country. Unlike South Africa where it was a known problem and termed and people fought it many Indians suffer this discrimination in every day life.
From the matrimonial columns demands of "fair" bride (no matter how swarthy the groom is), to the daily playing "Fairer" cosmetics advertisements reflect that this apathy towards "the other color" or the fixation towards the "fairer" color seems to have percolated through time and now finds a stable reservoir in our thought process, as if engrained in our DNA.
People of the "other color" are looked down upon (although there is a acceptance among youth today thanks to education, but limited to certain pockets) and if you are a girl then you had it. First you'll be teased all your life and even if you manage to excel at education finding a groom is a task coz the "fairer" groom would ask for huge dowry for marrying/ accepting "the other color" in his life as if he's doing you a favor and yet again in marriage you'll have to face attacks (verbal abuse) all your life the severity may differ and go down with time but will never vanish altogether.
So much so for the INDIAN UNSPOKEN UBIQUITOUS APARTHEID..........
From the matrimonial columns demands of "fair" bride (no matter how swarthy the groom is), to the daily playing "Fairer" cosmetics advertisements reflect that this apathy towards "the other color" or the fixation towards the "fairer" color seems to have percolated through time and now finds a stable reservoir in our thought process, as if engrained in our DNA.
People of the "other color" are looked down upon (although there is a acceptance among youth today thanks to education, but limited to certain pockets) and if you are a girl then you had it. First you'll be teased all your life and even if you manage to excel at education finding a groom is a task coz the "fairer" groom would ask for huge dowry for marrying/ accepting "the other color" in his life as if he's doing you a favor and yet again in marriage you'll have to face attacks (verbal abuse) all your life the severity may differ and go down with time but will never vanish altogether.
So much so for the INDIAN UNSPOKEN UBIQUITOUS APARTHEID..........
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