The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #108931   Message #2282760
Posted By: Richard Bridge
08-Mar-08 - 04:28 AM
Thread Name: BS: Mudcat Is Difficult For People Of Color
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Is Difficult For People Of Color
I am not in a position to speak from personal experience but a university friend of mine, Ajit Deshpande, visited the USA in the late 60s and told me when he came back that he did not receive the racist treatment that I had expected he would. He said he thought the reason was that although he had brown skin and dark eyes (he was from the Indian continent) his facial features were sharp. His impression was that the vast preponderance of racial prejudice in the USA was directed to those with what we would then have called "negroid features". I am sorry to say I don't know if there is a currently acceptable term for "negroid features".

I realise that this is purely anecdotal, and I also realise that native Americans and South Americans and Asiatics and others are today discriminated against in the USA and elsewhere, but I suspect that what Aj saw may not wholly have vanished.