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ppl think sg isnt racist ??
this is what i - a LIGHTSKIN indian who easily passes off as chindian or malay experience.
Do note it’s SO MUCH MORE WORSE for darker skinned indians
this is what i - a LIGHTSKIN indian who easily passes off as chindian or malay experience.
Do note it’s SO MUCH MORE WORSE for darker skinned indians
1. The ever present, apu neneh
2. The weird thing you ignorant fuckers do when you clasp your hands together and fucking shake your head
3. the stupid fucking joke where you turn off the lights and say you cant fucking see me, fucking seriously ?
4. Pointing to any random dark skinned worker and asking if thats my dad
5. being called smelly. humaira, sembawang sec, classroom 5B, i smelt like the dior perfume i stole from my mom every single day because YOU made me feel self conscious
6. telling me my hair smells like coconut oil all the time and looks oily.,, i begged my mom to stop braiding my hair because of you FUCKERS
7. being moved away from in the MRT. i remember i was 14 and wondering why this chinese lady clasped her nose and stood up from her seat, this happened ONLY when my dad called and spoke to me in TAMIL
8. laughing at the ethnic food i brought to class during racial harmomy day. i went home and fucking cried because of that. you guys didnt touch a SINGLE thing but now all you fuckers do is get on your e-scooters and go get prata at 3am
9. till this day i dont wear the bindin( the black dot ) on the daily. you fuckers mocked me for it daily, i stuck mine on the inside of my purse before i went to school and put it on when i went home so my mom wouldn’t fucking know
10. intentionally butchering my name, even till today when someone calls me by my full name i feel uncomfortable, how hard was it to pronounce tanushreen? tah-nu-shreen.
11. telling me all indians are hairy, making fun of my body hair, i begged my mom to let me wax my legs at 11. no fucking 11 year old should need to worry about their fucking body hair
12. You guys made me feel so unattractive for my features, big lips, big nose, big eyes, for the WAY my body was built, I wanted to be stick thin and pale and slender and CHINESE. but fuck you, im fucking stunning.
13. Being in group discussions and everyone would simply switch to chinese, talk about ME IN QUESTION TO MY FACE , in chinese. you think i didnt fucking know? you think i wouldnt fucking know?
please im begging u 14. being PRETTY FOR AN INDIAN, is not a fucking compliment its FUCKING NOT!!!
15. Might get fucked for saying this but “singapore isnt ready for an indian president” 
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16. indian being the butt of the joke for EVERYTHING, see sterotypical funny turban man, lost indian, blur indian
17. making fun of our gods, seriously, that was a whole new level, “go pray to your elephant god”
18. i stopped eating with my hands when i was 12 because of you fuckers, Because you told me it was dirty and unhygienic. i still cant eat rice with my hands till today, everytime i do it, even in the temple, there’s some form of shame that came from YOU FUCKERS
19. never forget
20. nearly every part time job requires you to speak chinese. WHY?
21. My baby nephew learning chinese in school instead of hindi because his parents are scared for his future. they worry he’ll be set back for learning HIS OWN LANGUAGE.
22. telling me to go back to my own country... I LIVE HERE! I WAS BORN HERE, national day never pay attention issit? we are ALL MIGRANTS,
23. “be more Indian” have a funnier accent. be more INDIAN BE MORE INDIAN? MAKE IT FUNNY??
24: and of COURSE, in a time like this, adding to the sterotype, chinese rich but malay and indian POOR!
25. im a mongrel mix of arabic and punjabi and whatevernot. my boyfriend is south indian. the racism he has faced here is worse than mine doubled over. i worry about our kids, even though no one should have to worry, what if they are darkskinned? how how i protect them from this?
26. forget my future kids, what about my baby nephews and nieces? what will i do when they eventually come to me and tell me how a lady moved away from them in the mrt or how theyre called names in school or teased because of their race and skin colour? what will i do?
27. And now you rush to indian threading shops to get waxed and your brows done, you beg for henna on your hands and you beg to dye your hair with henna and use the colourful bindis for your festivals and go for yoga and tell me trips to india help your soul. fuck you, thieves.
“Not all Chinese people —“
the worst part? this is the tip of the ice berg, Im PRIVILEGED to be a light skinned indian, im privileged to be able to pass off as another race and that is how you know Singapore is racist. my darkskinned friends have experienced things WORSE and more FREQUENTLY Than I
