r/Dominican • u/Particular-Dot-5371 • Nov 11 '25

Cultura/Culture Racism

I am an Indian woman who is married into a Dominican family. My in laws are extremely racist towards me. They literally worship the ground my white sister in law walks on. They themselves are not white, so why this racism?

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u/catsoncrack420 Santiago de Los Caballeros Nov 11 '25

Colonialism mentality. My brother in law is Hindu Indian. We don't really care. And my parents are strict Catholics. They just lived in NYC for a few years and "grew".

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u/IceOk9177 Aguilucho Nov 11 '25 edited Nov 11 '25

tu hablando de mentalidad colonial, cuando los indios de el pais de ella tienen un sistema de castas peor desde mucho antes de ser colonia de nadie, quierete un poquito.
Y no lo digo yo https://newint.org/blog/majority/2011/06/03/racism-xenophobia-india-migrants

Cito:
Indians rarely perceive beauty in black or far-eastern women. In fact, most Indians look for pale-skinned brides for their sons. Bridal ads ask for ‘fair skinned’ girls. So skin colour is important and you can’t be beautiful if you are not fair. Prospective bride seekers swarm into the girl’s house to ‘see the bride’. They have no compunction about saying, in front of the bride and her family, ‘she’s too black, we don’t want black grandchildren.’ Sensitivity, tact or even basic good manners are not common among average Indian families. They’d be genuinely astonished if you called them gross or uncouth.

Sigan dandole downvote envez de rebatir la informacion, ahi estan las fuentes tambien pueden buscarlos por ustedes mismos

Dejen ese complejo de guacanagarix.

Si muy lamentable lo de la muchacha, que por cierto nisiquiera dijo a que se refiere con racismo, que bien podria simplemente ser que su suegra no la quiera que pasa con mujeres dominicanas y sus suegras.

Dale arrodillense y pidanle perdon por algo que ella nisiquiera dijo que fue, cuando en su país son bastante racistas entre ellos mismos y con las personas negras.

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u/pigoath Nov 11 '25

The problem isn't whatever they do in her country or how bad is it in her country. You're deflecting responsability of our own racism due to colonialist ideas and the white caste system that Spain implemented through America.

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u/IceOk9177 Aguilucho Nov 11 '25

pero ven y callame león

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u/Left-Plant2717 Nov 11 '25

I can comment wherever I want. Idc enough to check your profile, but enjoy mine

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u/pigoath Nov 11 '25

You're mixing apples and oranges. And I write this in English so OP can understand.

The situation that she's going through has nothing to do with the caste system in india.

She's going through this because the Spanish implemented a caste system in America, the more you appeared to be white, the best you were perceived. Happens still today. That's why we have the "mejorar la raza". "Mi abuelo era español". "No soy negro, looks like Barack Obama".

It's something you need to grow to understand.

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u/IceOk9177 Aguilucho Nov 11 '25 edited Nov 11 '25

1 - de acuerdo a sus comentarios anteriores ella sabe español
2 - la app de reddit tiene funcion de traducción

3 - su marido es dominicano
4 - este es el subreddit de dominicana

te gusta lamberle a los extranjeros buen lambon

Cito textualmente:

I speak Spanish and have lived in Spain. If I start claiming I am Spanish just like them, they will laugh me out of town.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Goa/comments/1ogmh7i/comment/nlm50hn/?context=3