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Some days ago, I was watching a show called 'Splitsvilla' in which a 'Delhi' girl contestant called another contestant from 'North-East India'- 'Chinky' and commented on her community, then you can imagine, there was a big CAT FIGHT. When the host of the show asked the 'Delhi' girl that do you know the meaning of word that you used and have you heard the term 'Racism', she was being innocent and told that we in 'Delhi' called them by this term only and she sees no racism in that.
What I mean to say from the above incident that we often use the words like 'Chinky' and 'Neapli' without knowing the meaning of them for our own Indian people because if you know what those words mean you never use them. So I want to tell you their meaning...READ CAREFULLY...
CHINKY means a person who hails from CHINA and NEPALI means a person who hails from NEPAL. Since both CHINA and NEPAL are foreign countries, the CHINKYS and NEPALIS (as we call them) should be foreigners but mind it, they are not... THEY ARE AS INDIAN AS YOU ARE.
They are not only called as foreigners but also treated them like also( remember a scene from the movie 'Chak De India' where some boys molest the North-East Indian girls and the servant called them guests in their own country). Just think for a second what you feel if you are treated as some foreigner in your own country.
Once a famous politician gave a statement in his newspaper that “Sachin Tendulkar is a true Marathi.” In answer to that the famous legend cricketer said ”He is an Indian first, then Marathi.” We should learn from Tendulkar that India should be our priority over her states.
The above example is not the single one about racism within Indian people. If you look around, there are such more examples like how the people from UP and Bihar are treated in Delhi, how the North Indian people are treated in South India. In South India, they dont consider Hindi (the national language of India) as their own language. Most of the people there dont understand hindi.
We should think, just not think but feel that we all are one, we all are Indian and we all are united, otherwise that day is not too far when some other 'East India Company' will rule us with their 'Divide and Rule Policy'.
Written By:
Rohit Saini
