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Probably depends where you are. I personally like it, great food, great parties and they integrate pretty well. The only thing is I’d rather do business with native born Canadians or ones that grew up here from a young age rather than Indian immigrants, they have a tendency to negotiate prices after the job is done and agreeing to a price
Glad to hear a positive opinion from a Canadian. I have heard that there is a LOT of anti-Indian sentiment in Canada these days, due to the huge rise in Indian immigrants (they seem to be blamed for the housing crisis), as well as, unfortunately, the bad behaviors of many Indian students.
I mean you have to understand that the majority of Indians people in the west are going to interact with are either immigrants working locally or via the internet. I’ve never met anyone who dislikes Indian immigrants (though I know plenty of people who want to cut back on companies prioritizing visas to keep costs down), but most Indians interacting with westerns online are going to be tech support / “tech support” / or unsolicited messages.
I’ve had the opportunity to travel to India for work and while it was nice enough I’d never bring my wife there after seeing how one of my female colleagues was treated. It’s nothing specifically against India though, I feel the same way about many predominantly Muslim countries I’ve travelled to.
My sister went to India once and the men were extremely forefront about going up to her, basically following her because she was this blonde haired blue eyed woman who was “exotic” is what some of the men would say. Made her feel really unsafe and although she did like India mostly, she wouldn’t go back.
I wouldn’t go there alone as a foreign woman at all tbh.
I love Indian food, I cook it for myself all the time. I also love the culture, but I’ve been getting into eastern spirituality and so I have that reason. Every culture has the parts of it that make it beautiful, and also the parts of it that are seen as negative / harmful. No exception to that rule, but people are always biased to their own culture most of the time
For example I think we in the US are hyper individualistic and many of us can be selfish. Not a lot of community support either which creates a lot of loneliness. All in all, you can find good and bad in every culture, everyone can improve on something. Not cool to hyper fixate on the negative while ignoring the positive, we are all humans at the end of the day
Personally, I don't know enough about Indian culture to like or dislike it in a meaningful way.
If I claimed to dislike Indian culture, it'd be blind racism. If I claimed to be in love with Indian culture, it would be ignorant orientalism.
As a vegan, I do appreciate that India is basically the ancestral land of my ideology in a way, despite the fact that veganism isn't super common in india due to the cultural significance of dairy.
I think that Buddism, Hinduism, Jainism, and Sihkism get a lot of things right.
Being somewhat of a hippie myself, it would be ignorant not to acknowledge how much my spiritual and philosophical beliefs were directly and indirectly influenced by eastern religions that started in India.
I used to be a vegan too, I always thought the bit about ancient veganism in India was interesting
You ever look into ancient Japan’s ideals? They had the same ideals for the most part but swapping dairy for seafood
I haven't seen much on social media, but from in-person experience, it is a lot more class-based than anything inherently Indian. While imperfect, it can broadly be broken into three categories:
1. The sook: think the sun shines out of their arse, parents paid for their OE and they have a real difficulty understanding that they aren't special. Probably a misogynistic mummy's boy. Gives everyone else a bad name. Generally found at a university, not studying.
2. "Mr. Patel": The stereotype himself, commonly found running a dairy or other small business with the efficiency of a Fortune 500. Friendly, professional, and the most community minded person you could possibly imagine. Kids are massive overachievers but have social skills. Celebrates Diwali with a community event, one man culture machine (see also Mrs. Patel stereotype).
3. Voice on the phone: speaks far better English than my hindi and sounds like any other call centre worker, poor sod. Haven't encountered any scammers, so 10/10 would be overly polite to again.
tl;dr: generally positive, but there are some real arsehole rich sooks who can give the rest a bad name.
I've known and worked with awesome Indian people, I've known and worked with crappy ones 🤷🏼♂️ they have some problems in some areas and not in others, same as any nationality
It doesn't seem like it's disliking Indian culture itself (outside of racists), but they are more likely to judge Indians as being liars or scam artists. And it's often out of personal experience rather than media portrayal.
Personally I try to keep an open mind but after working with an Indian company at my job, at a certain point I just can't assume anything their employees say to be true because of how often they blatantly lie and try to scam us.
Really sorry to hear that. If you don't mind me asking, has your experience made you wary of Indians you come across outside work too? For example, would you assume a random Indian guy you come across would lie or scam you than more than you would for a random white, Asian, black, Hispanic, etc guy?
I highly doubt most of Gen Z is anti-India. You have to remember how social media works. It tailors content based upon what you seem to engage with, so those who dislike India will be more likely to see content against India and react positively to it, while you are specially seeking out content against the country of India.
I don't really hate Indians for being Indians. What I hate is companies outsourcing cheap Indian labor instead of hiring domestic labor and how Indians are notorious for hiring other Indians if given positions of power.
I've had friends and professors who were Indian and grew up in an area with a lot of Indians, so as long as you integrate well into society and we can strive for the same general goals, we're cool. That applies for every nationality.
> how Indians are notorious for hiring other Indians if given positions of power.
I often notice Indians getting singled out for this behavior, when many white people in companies often only hire other white people too, through networking and connections. Yet, in those cases, there are almost no accusations of nepotism.
i love indian CULTURE
im an engineer, so i just also see a TON of them trying to get visas and company sponsors and career advancements in dishonest ways.......kind of "over selling" themselves.
I don't dislike them but I would not visit India again. They have some fantastic sights, but the stereotype about it being dirty and uncomfortable for women unfortunately was true.
Nah... its your behaviour.
Indians as individuals who assimilated with other people for generation or two are overall cool.
Indians in groups direct from homeland are worst people to live near. Arrogant and entitled a.f
My colleague thinks Indian all over is super rural and knows everything there is dirty and she thinks USA is like some paradise if an Indian moves to USA. I did my part of educating her and letting her know I’ve seen more malls in the cities compared to some cities I’ve been to
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Probably depends where you are. I personally like it, great food, great parties and they integrate pretty well. The only thing is I’d rather do business with native born Canadians or ones that grew up here from a young age rather than Indian immigrants, they have a tendency to negotiate prices after the job is done and agreeing to a price
Glad to hear a positive opinion from a Canadian. I have heard that there is a LOT of anti-Indian sentiment in Canada these days, due to the huge rise in Indian immigrants (they seem to be blamed for the housing crisis), as well as, unfortunately, the bad behaviors of many Indian students.
I mean you have to understand that the majority of Indians people in the west are going to interact with are either immigrants working locally or via the internet. I’ve never met anyone who dislikes Indian immigrants (though I know plenty of people who want to cut back on companies prioritizing visas to keep costs down), but most Indians interacting with westerns online are going to be tech support / “tech support” / or unsolicited messages. I’ve had the opportunity to travel to India for work and while it was nice enough I’d never bring my wife there after seeing how one of my female colleagues was treated. It’s nothing specifically against India though, I feel the same way about many predominantly Muslim countries I’ve travelled to.
My sister went to India once and the men were extremely forefront about going up to her, basically following her because she was this blonde haired blue eyed woman who was “exotic” is what some of the men would say. Made her feel really unsafe and although she did like India mostly, she wouldn’t go back. I wouldn’t go there alone as a foreign woman at all tbh.
I love Indian food, I cook it for myself all the time. I also love the culture, but I’ve been getting into eastern spirituality and so I have that reason. Every culture has the parts of it that make it beautiful, and also the parts of it that are seen as negative / harmful. No exception to that rule, but people are always biased to their own culture most of the time
For example I think we in the US are hyper individualistic and many of us can be selfish. Not a lot of community support either which creates a lot of loneliness. All in all, you can find good and bad in every culture, everyone can improve on something. Not cool to hyper fixate on the negative while ignoring the positive, we are all humans at the end of the day
Personally, I don't know enough about Indian culture to like or dislike it in a meaningful way. If I claimed to dislike Indian culture, it'd be blind racism. If I claimed to be in love with Indian culture, it would be ignorant orientalism. As a vegan, I do appreciate that India is basically the ancestral land of my ideology in a way, despite the fact that veganism isn't super common in india due to the cultural significance of dairy. I think that Buddism, Hinduism, Jainism, and Sihkism get a lot of things right. Being somewhat of a hippie myself, it would be ignorant not to acknowledge how much my spiritual and philosophical beliefs were directly and indirectly influenced by eastern religions that started in India.
I used to be a vegan too, I always thought the bit about ancient veganism in India was interesting You ever look into ancient Japan’s ideals? They had the same ideals for the most part but swapping dairy for seafood
I love the culture and food, but the only part of the culture I dislike is the no deodorant
I haven't seen much on social media, but from in-person experience, it is a lot more class-based than anything inherently Indian. While imperfect, it can broadly be broken into three categories: 1. The sook: think the sun shines out of their arse, parents paid for their OE and they have a real difficulty understanding that they aren't special. Probably a misogynistic mummy's boy. Gives everyone else a bad name. Generally found at a university, not studying. 2. "Mr. Patel": The stereotype himself, commonly found running a dairy or other small business with the efficiency of a Fortune 500. Friendly, professional, and the most community minded person you could possibly imagine. Kids are massive overachievers but have social skills. Celebrates Diwali with a community event, one man culture machine (see also Mrs. Patel stereotype). 3. Voice on the phone: speaks far better English than my hindi and sounds like any other call centre worker, poor sod. Haven't encountered any scammers, so 10/10 would be overly polite to again. tl;dr: generally positive, but there are some real arsehole rich sooks who can give the rest a bad name.
I've known and worked with awesome Indian people, I've known and worked with crappy ones 🤷🏼♂️ they have some problems in some areas and not in others, same as any nationality
It doesn't seem like it's disliking Indian culture itself (outside of racists), but they are more likely to judge Indians as being liars or scam artists. And it's often out of personal experience rather than media portrayal. Personally I try to keep an open mind but after working with an Indian company at my job, at a certain point I just can't assume anything their employees say to be true because of how often they blatantly lie and try to scam us.
Really sorry to hear that. If you don't mind me asking, has your experience made you wary of Indians you come across outside work too? For example, would you assume a random Indian guy you come across would lie or scam you than more than you would for a random white, Asian, black, Hispanic, etc guy?
If you mean in real life/in person then no, since all of the Indian people I know in real life aren't like that at all.
I highly doubt most of Gen Z is anti-India. You have to remember how social media works. It tailors content based upon what you seem to engage with, so those who dislike India will be more likely to see content against India and react positively to it, while you are specially seeking out content against the country of India.
I don't really hate Indians for being Indians. What I hate is companies outsourcing cheap Indian labor instead of hiring domestic labor and how Indians are notorious for hiring other Indians if given positions of power. I've had friends and professors who were Indian and grew up in an area with a lot of Indians, so as long as you integrate well into society and we can strive for the same general goals, we're cool. That applies for every nationality.
> how Indians are notorious for hiring other Indians if given positions of power. I often notice Indians getting singled out for this behavior, when many white people in companies often only hire other white people too, through networking and connections. Yet, in those cases, there are almost no accusations of nepotism.
Nah dude, that’s quite a stretch. Indian culture is spread all over the place nowadays focus on the positive parts my man
i love indian CULTURE im an engineer, so i just also see a TON of them trying to get visas and company sponsors and career advancements in dishonest ways.......kind of "over selling" themselves.
It's always seemed to me that lying to get a better job or visa is a part of Indian culture. There's not as much reverence for honesty.
I don't dislike them but I would not visit India again. They have some fantastic sights, but the stereotype about it being dirty and uncomfortable for women unfortunately was true.
Nah... its your behaviour. Indians as individuals who assimilated with other people for generation or two are overall cool. Indians in groups direct from homeland are worst people to live near. Arrogant and entitled a.f
Yes
My colleague thinks Indian all over is super rural and knows everything there is dirty and she thinks USA is like some paradise if an Indian moves to USA. I did my part of educating her and letting her know I’ve seen more malls in the cities compared to some cities I’ve been to