Superior or Inferior!

It is ridiculous to share space with the peoples who can discriminate others based on self-created superiority. Often it is financial superiority but more often, it is because of races and castes. An age-old cancerous problem in our so-called modern society. Every noble citizen of the world believes that it is a crime but never tried to solve the problem constructively. In Europe, USA and South Africa the division was based on the colour of screen. White breed always thought themselves superior to others only because they had the money and power.

In India, it is caste, how it came and on what basis I don’t want to spend a second for the fact. It is human nature to find something for which they can feel superior. It may be the other way to hide one’s inferior complexity. Even we Indians suffered in the hand of age-old casteism but racism was an unknown factor to us. In recent past, few states have shown that we are too not far behind in this criterion. Discrimination towards North Indians in Maharashtra and Assam is some of the important incidents to be mentioned. The recent past incidents are manufactured by some political parties and their leaders. The most disgusting breeds are the politicians, who wanted to gain popularity among local people to get a few extra votes, are dividing the nation base on races.

A few facts that make the world are not such a beautiful place to live on.

If we looked back to the history, Jews are the worst sufferer.

In 1290, King Edward I of England forces all Jews to leave England. The action enhances the king’s own coffers and reflects growing anti-Semitism in England. Then 1492 King Ferdinand V and Queen Isabella expel all Jews and Moors, the Spanish Muslims from Spain. Hitler and Nazi Germany systematically attempt to eliminate the presence of Jews in Europe.

Discrimination against Red Indian.

Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks and Seminoles to leave the Southeast and move to Indian Territory in Oklahoma under the Indian Removal Act of 1830 under then USA president Andrew Jackson.

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

Founded in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee, as a terrorist organization by veterans of the Confederate Army. They named it after the Greek word 'kuklos", which means circle. The members of the KKK started terrorizing black and some white leaders of social and political reform. Displaying fierce racial hatred, the Klansmen will harass, torture, and murder hundreds of newly enfranchised blacks who attempt to exercise the rights guaranteed to them by the federal government.

Apartheid in South Africa

The word apartheid means “separateness” in the Afrikaans language and it described the rigid racial division between the governing white minority population and the nonwhite majority population. The National Party introduced apartheid as part of their campaign in the 1948 elections, and with the National Party victory, apartheid became the governing political policy for South Africa until the early 1990s. Although there is no longer a legal basis for apartheid, the social, economic, and political inequalities between white and black South Africans continue to exist.

Casteism in India

Caste, rigid social system in which a social hierarchy is maintained generation after generation and allows little mobility out of the position to which a person is born. The term is often applied to the hierarchical hereditary divisions established among the Hindus on the Indian subcontinent.

Casteism in India - which we can easily define as the restriction of people's status in life to their caste of birth. It has also weakened Hindu society and made it vulnerable to conversion and other forms of fragmentation. Casteism says that if you are born of a brahmana family, then you are a brahmana, no matter whether you truly exhibit the genuine characteristics of a brahmana or not. Moreover, if you are also born in a Kshatriya family, or a Vaisya or Shudra family, then that is what you must be.

While we yet to get over from casteism, we are facing a new challenge that is racism. A few recent incidents are as follows

Racism in India.

Bihari migrant workers have been subject to a growing degree of xenophobia, racial discrimination, prejudice and violence.  Biharis are often looked down upon and their accent ridiculed.  In 2000 and 2003, anti-Bihari violence led to the deaths of up to 200 people and created 10,000 internal refugees. Main culprits are Assam and Maharashtra.

On 19 October 2008, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) and Shiv Sena activists attacked North Indian candidates appearing for the all-India Railway Recruitment Board entrance exam for the Western region in Mumbai.

Shiv Sena and MNS always made critical remarks, themed around language politics and regionalism, about migrants from the North Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, accusing them of spoiling Maharashtrian culture and not mingling with them.

!!!Those are talking about spoiling the culture they themselves yet to learn a few lesson of humanity!!!