'India Is Racist, And Happy About It'

[Absinthe]

It drove me insane when all I wanted to do was marvel at the architecture, and check out the wares at all the local shops, only to be mobbed every two seconds by aggressive shop owners and beggars.

You never forget that you're a foreigner in India.

That's not racism, that's socioeconomic bias.

Westerners = Money, and we all know what that means in one of the most poverty stricken countries in the world.

[Cato]

I can see the influence of the caste system, where the darker Indians like the Dravidians got the crap end of the stick, but the author's attempts to paint India as a bastion for racial intolerance are pretty far-off-the-mark. Rather than acting all offended that the Indians are being Indians, he should simply ask himself this question instead:

Why does my politically correct worldview extent to people who, in many cases, still live a pre-industrial state?