Reply #30: Actually, I do NOT say that "as if it's impossible"

[LWolf]

to find another ethnic person with the same abilities. The thread is not about other ethnicities; it is about the Indian caste system. Your post is not about other ethnicities, it is about painting one ethnicity, Indians, with a broad brush:

've been trying to point out that there is something out of whack with the Indians that I encounter stateside. They definitely have a very condescending attitude towards other minorities. Intelligent, certainly, but definitely they do come across as if they're entitled to disregard even the most fundamental humanitarian courtesies.

My interpretation? You are presenting the idea that the caste system leads to institutionalized racism on the part of Indians as a whole, based on your observations of Indians here in the U.S..

Ironically, that presentation places you in the same boat; discrimination or prejudice of a group based on race or ethnicity.

I say what I say to point out that your characterization of Indians as referenced above is faulty. You can find examples of the best and worst of human behavior in every race/ethnicity/gender/political persuasion/etc.. That doesn't excuse the wholesale painting of an entire race or ethnic group with the brush of "as if they're entitled to disregard even the most fundamental humanitarian courtesies." I'm pointing out the fundamental courtesy absent from this statement.

You've used the phrase "as if" to attribute your own perspectives to others here; to me, and to an entire race of people. I take exception to that. Speak for yourself; don't speak for me.