White man's burden?

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White man's burden? >Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:32:41 -0800 > >Title: White

man's burden? >Author: Francois Gautier >Publication: The Pioneer >Nov.

12, 2002 > >Why do Indians have such an attraction towards white skin? I am a

White and a born Christian - but even after more than 30 years in India, this

attraction in its people still baffles me. I have looked in my mind for

answers. > >When I see Mr Bill Gates coming to give charity to the poor and

ignorant Indians, who do not know how to handle sex and are on the way to

becoming the largest AIDS reservoir in the world, I wonder: Do Indians really

believe in what the White man says? Do they need a White man to tell them what

to do and what not to do? Actually the funny thing is that this AIDS scare is

an old trick of hostile NGOs, Christian organisations and the enemies of India.

It is true that AIDS is the scourge of the 21st century, the great black plague

of our era. But more is being made of it than is necessary, especially in the

Indian context. > >World health organisations are fond of saying that India has

the largest population of HIV contaminated cases - some even speak about 25

millions by 2010. But as every one knows, AIDS spreads through three agents:

Homosexuality, hypodermic syringes of drug addicts and prostitutes. Yet,

whatever Deepa Mehta or Shabana Azmi would like us to believe, homosexuality is

not very common in India's villages, which comprise 80 per cent of the

population; one-sided homosexuality is a Western phenomenon and it is brought

to India by Westernised Indians. As for hard drug addiction, again it is not

all that common in Indian villages, except in some of the North-East border

states, many of which incidentally happen to be Christian. The prostitutes

carry the greatest threat of spreading the disease, particularly in big cities

like Mumbai. Then in turn, those men who have contacted it will bring it to the

villages, when they have intercourse with their wives. But 25 million AIDS

cases? > >Again, when I see the fascination that Indians - old and young, rich

and poor, whether from the Congress, the CPI or even the BJP - have for

Congress president Sonia Gandhi, I wonder: Does India, one of the great ancient

civilisations, need a White woman to govern it? I am sure she has great

qualities, but are Indians so backward that they cannot find amongst themselves

someone intelligent enough enough to lead them? And what about this craze for

Mother Teresa? She may have been a saint, but nobody has harmed India's image

in the West as much in the 20th century. When you mention India in the West,

their eyes light up and they say: "Mother Teresa/ Calcutta/ poor people/

starving people/ who do not know how to care after their own underprivileged/

who need a White woman to show them how to pick-up those dying in the street

and to look after orphans." Is this the image that Indians needs today - one

that is harming them, which is stopping Western investors from investing in In!

>dia? > >Yet Mother Teresa is worshiped here, from Calcutta to Chennai, and when

she will be made a saint by the Vatican, perpetuating this colonial,

superior-minded, Christian symbol of White superiority over the Brown/Black

man, the whole of Indian media will rejoice in their own mental slavery and the

Indian Government will probably declare a national holiday! Why don't Indians

understand that Brown is beautiful? White people spend hours in the beach and

put a hundred cream and lotions to get tanned. Why this obsession in Indian

woman to have white skin? And why this growing trend to colour their hair

blonde? How come the two most popular actors in India, Aishwarya Rai and

Hrithik Roshan, have very fair skins and blue eyes? Why this craze about "fair"

brides? If you find the answer to that, you will understand the reason behind

Indians' fatal attraction towards Mr Bill Gates, Ms Sonia Gandhi and Mother

Teresa. > >Obviously, colonisation has frozen the Indian mind in certain

patterns and the British made sure, through Macaulay's policies of leaving

behind them an enduring complex of inferiority amongst Indians, by constantly

harping on the flaws of Indian culture and inflating them. This is why Indian

intellectuals today repeat what their masters said before: "Hindus are

fundamentalists/ Brahmins are exploiters/ Golwalkar was a Nazi/ Indians are

corrupt and no good." > >But that does not explain everything: Most colonised

countries have aped their masters after having hated them. No, in my mind the

greatest factor behind India's love of the White is the absurd theory of Aryan

invasion. According to this theory, which was actually devised in the 18th and

19th century by British linguists and archaeologists, the first inhabitants of

India were good-natured, peaceful, dark-skinned shepherds called the

Dravidians, who had founded what is now known as the Harappan or the Indus

Valley civilisation. They were supposedly remarkable builders: Witness the city

of Mohenjo-Daro in Sind. But they had no culture to speak of, that is to say no

literature, no proper script even. Then, around 1500 BC, India is said to have

been invaded by tribes called the Aryans: white-skinned, nomadic people, who

originated somewhere in Western Russia and imposed upon the Dravidians the

hateful caste system. To the Aryans are attributed Sanskrit, the Vedic-Hindu

religion,! > India's greatest spiritual texts, the Vedas, as well as a host of

subsequent writings, like the Upanishads. > >This was indeed a masterstroke on

the part of the British: Thanks to the Aryan invasion theory, they showed on

the one hand that the Indian civilisation was not that ancient and that it was

secondary to the cultures which influenced the Western world, and that whatever

good things India had developed had been as a result of the influence of the

West. Thus, Sanskrit, instead of being known as the mother of all Indo-European

languages, became just a branch of their huge family; thus, the religion of

Zarathustra is said to have influenced Hinduism, and not vice versa. On the

other hand, it divided India and pitted its people against each other, rifts

which still endure. Yet, most recent archaeological and linguistic discoveries

point out that there never was an Aryan invasion and many historians, including

Romila Thapar, are distancing themselves from it. > >Yet, most Indians still

believe in this absurd theory. It is time for you Indians to wake up. You are

as great, if not greater, than the White man. You can do as well, if not

better, than the White man. Not only did your forefathers devise some of the

basic principles of mathematics, astrology, or surgical medicine, not only are

your people today amongst the most brilliant in the world - half of Silicon

valley is of people of Indian origin; 30 per cent of UK's doctors are Indians -

but you still hold within yourselves a unique spiritual knowledge, which once

roamed the world, but which has now disappeared, replaced by the intolerant

creed of the two major monotheistic religions, which say: "If you don't believe

in my true God, I will either kill you or convert you." Wake-up India. Brown is

beautiful, smart and it is the future. > >

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