It's the other way around - it's racist if you're a US American, because in USA every problem is somehow ultimately called or blamed on racism.
Elsewhere in the world, we'd all it xenophobia, or Indophobia if one has something against Indian people specifically.
Though in this case, it's driven primarily by economic stereotypes, coming from the country becoming a cheap services outsourcing destination for the West, so there should be a better term coined for it. The anti-Indian sentiment in IT seems to be the services equivalent of the common "Made in China = cheap crap" belief, and because it applies to services and not products, it turns into discriminating people.
It is mainly because the majority of scammers that we hear about are Indian. I am not sure it has anything to do with xenophobia, whether they (or we) call it as such or not.
Nothing racist about it, India is essentially the #1 outsourcing destination. Not everything that involves an explicit mention of ethnicity / origin is racist.
Not racist but offensive indeed. It's like relating school shootings to white people. A white child sitting in Norway might not relate and may find it offensive and insulting.
India is a country, not a color of person. It's more like relating school shootings to the US, where an American child sitting in the US would definitely relate and find it accurate.
Others have already mentioned why it is grounded in reality. Call your ISP, Indian picks up. You are being scammed? Probably an Indian. It is not racist, I have nothing against Indians in particular, but the trend is there and it is quite obvious, hence, reality.
If I replace "reality" with "truth", it does not work out because it makes no sense: "truth cannot be racist" makes no sense whatsoever. In relation or correspondence to what? It does work with reality, however.
It's the other way around - it's racist if you're a US American, because in USA every problem is somehow ultimately called or blamed on racism.
Elsewhere in the world, we'd all it xenophobia, or Indophobia if one has something against Indian people specifically.
Though in this case, it's driven primarily by economic stereotypes, coming from the country becoming a cheap services outsourcing destination for the West, so there should be a better term coined for it. The anti-Indian sentiment in IT seems to be the services equivalent of the common "Made in China = cheap crap" belief, and because it applies to services and not products, it turns into discriminating people.
It is mainly because the majority of scammers that we hear about are Indian. I am not sure it has anything to do with xenophobia, whether they (or we) call it as such or not.
Nothing racist about it, India is essentially the #1 outsourcing destination. Not everything that involves an explicit mention of ethnicity / origin is racist.
Not racist but offensive indeed. It's like relating school shootings to white people. A white child sitting in Norway might not relate and may find it offensive and insulting.
India is a country, not a color of person. It's more like relating school shootings to the US, where an American child sitting in the US would definitely relate and find it accurate.
I don't see this parallel, sorry.
It is reality. Reality cannot be racist. :P
Uhm.. Do you include human social structures in reality?
Even of you replace 'reality' with 'true' amd 'truth' the logic doesn't quite work out.
Others have already mentioned why it is grounded in reality. Call your ISP, Indian picks up. You are being scammed? Probably an Indian. It is not racist, I have nothing against Indians in particular, but the trend is there and it is quite obvious, hence, reality.
If I replace "reality" with "truth", it does not work out because it makes no sense: "truth cannot be racist" makes no sense whatsoever. In relation or correspondence to what? It does work with reality, however.
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