India



In India, there are many people who would be considered African in America, because their skin is so dark. However, this is typical for them, and what we consider dark it considered light for them. One main reason that this is so normal is because India holds a lot of slums. In these slums there is very little diversity because lighter skinned people would never move there, and there were never any light skinned people to begin with. My dad always tells me a story of when he went to India for a business trip; he was walking down the street when a group of kids ran up to him very excited, pulling him in a direction and shouting “friend!” They dragged him through the streets until they encountered another group of excited kids pulling another white man to the same location. These kids saw two men of the same skin and thought that they must be friends because they had never seen anything like this before. This also proves that kids will see race even if they are not informed of it. However, is it shown that kids will also turn a little racist when taught about race because then they learn about stereotypes and start seeing race.

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