Most of it comes from Canada where Indian immigrants make up a very large percentage of the immigrant population, the general consensus is that it’s due to the Canadian government issuing student visas, there is general racism against Indians in Canada for this due to the perception that they take jobs and housing from “native” Canadians. The UK has had an Indian population for a long time so Indians are much more ingrained into society there even though they suffer from racism they arguably have been more integrated there than Canada, in the US other ethnic groups are more hated so Indians still remain largely unnoticed and confused with other ethnicities. Australia arguably is unique compared to the rest of the anglosphere in that Chinese immigration is seen with the more hostility.
What is the cause of the recent Indian immigration? It’s because they’re are tied for most populated country on Earth, China, and the United States are rich enough that they don’t feel the need to immigrate so much, the next most populous countries like Indonesia and Nigeria are too poor and too small to have much of a noticeable global immigration impact, so that’s my theory on why Indian immigration is so dominant right now. They are rich enough to finance an expat community but poor enough to not have people want to live there. It also helps that a good deal of Indians speak English so it’s only natural why Indian immigration is a thing, but why now? Is it because India is finally getting old, that the “bubble” is going to pop? Are they at some turning point, a national spirit is driving them to emigrate? I don’t fucking know, I’m just saying Indians are.
There has also been a large about of Indians in government positions, Sunak, Singh, Ramaswamy, Kamala. Not to mention their dominance in the tech industry, they are also strangely conservative on average, so if their values of conservatism don’t save them from racism while many East Asian people like Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese tend to hold more leftist positions, why are Indians more hated? Because they are darker obviously, the newer arrivals at least, before 2020 the Indian immigrants were high caste, whiter skinned, they were “model minorities” the new ones are not, they have no generational wealth, they immigrated to become a underclass which wasn’t the case with previous Indian immigrants. This is the reason why the Indian stereotypes went from 7/11 to street shitting and rapists so quickly.
Did I mention the world Pajeet yet? I did not mention that a huge portion of the racism is directly coming from one source, 4chan. That fucking site created the slur Pajeet, it used to be the largest site on the internet dedicated to Indian racism, now it’s has been overtaken by twitter and tiktok and Indian racism is much more mainstream now but I can say with certainty that 4chan is where what we view as “modern” racism against Desi people took shape, before that there was the slur removed, that might be offensive in the UK but in America Pajeet has become the most common slur, congress people are causally saying it, we can only hope removed does not catch on in popularity in the rest of the west because that will make the racism worse.
What was the point is this post? I don’t know, I’m just depressed that I seem to be the only person seeing a new form a racism emerge with my very own eyes. I see far too many people say they are one of the good ones I see Indian people being as a wedge on the political stage by America against China to the East and Muslims to the West. What a horrible deal of an alliance India is making with the west, these people do not care for India yet you barely see any pushback. What solution is there beyond Indian expats organizing to protect themselves, are they not already! an Indian man say to me that the new immigrants from Punjab make up only 5% of the Indian population in America, that they are ruining the reputation of the 95%, maybe Indian people should act more like the 5%?