"What did Mahatma Gandhi think of black people?"

[vetran]

This +1 quite often those who have not experienced things first hand take a very simplistic view.

I went to an International school for a few years when we lived in Thailand in the 1970's, you should have seen the mix there.
In fact, I seem to recall, I was the only English kid in my class.

When I came back to the UK, it was a real contrast as 95% of the kids in my school were white English.

That would be because only the Foreigners and rich could afford the international school. My Nephew & Niece experienced the same in Dubai.

When I went to School 99.9% of the school was white British. My Daughters its 40%. Helluva of a change in 35 years.

[MrMarkyMark]

Been at work meals where one half f the table won't talk to the other as they came from different areas.

The problem is people see some people as saints and don't realise things are a lot more complex. I doubt most people would like Churchill or Disreali but they were great men for a single side of their life.

Strangely enough was chatting with a chap from Pune last week who hated Ghandi, Nero & Mountbatten for not sorting out India. I did apologise for Mountbatten but pointed out he didn't have much of a chance.

This +1 quite often those who have not experienced things first hand take a very simplistic view.

I went to an International school for a few years when we lived in Thailand in the 1970's, you should have seen the mix there.
In fact, I seem to recall, I was the only English kid in my class.

When I came back to the UK, it was a real contrast as 95% of the kids in my school were white English.

[vetran]

Been at work meals where one half f the table won't talk to the other as they came from different areas.

The problem is people see some people as saints and don't realise things are a lot more complex. I doubt most people would like Churchill or Disreali but they were great men for a single side of their life.

Strangely enough was chatting with a chap from Pune last week who hated Ghandi, Nero & Mountbatten for not sorting out India. I did apologise for Mountbatten but pointed out he didn't have much of a chance.

[LondonManc]

Very true, just less visible here. I think it will take many generations to get rid of it, if at all.

Indeed. World peace relies on not just countries calling truces but individuals passing down bigotry to impressionable youngsters. It's almost like the psychology study involving the five monkeys.

[MrMarkyMark]

Their caste systems are actually alive in the UK but you wouldn't know that living in an all white area.

Very amusing to find Sikhs not talking to each other because of their caste system.

Very true, just less visible here. I think it will take many generations to get rid of it, if at all.

[SueEllen]

I've spent a lot of time there, all over. As well as the religious and regional division there you obviously have the caste system.
Our mealy mouthed liberals wouldn't know they have been born if they spent decent amount of time there

Their caste systems are actually alive in the UK but you wouldn't know that living in an all white area.

Very amusing to find Sikhs not talking to each other because of their caste system.

[MrMarkyMark]

I loved it when I went to India with 2 other white Brit's and a lad of Pakistani extraction. Much trouble at the airport for him. But he was a twunt so I didn't mind.

Our bags didn't make the connection, with the notable exception of his empty one he'd brought to take cheap stuff home. Rather than putting it in his other bag, he'd sent it separately, just because he could. Since some of his luggage had arrived he got zero compensation whilst the rest of us got £100 for our trouble.

I've spent a lot of time there, all over. As well as the religious and regional division there you obviously have the caste system.
Our mealy mouthed liberals wouldn't know they have been born if they spent decent amount of time there

[barrydidit]

They haven't traveled enough, take India, for example, the Indians hate the Pakistanis with a passion.
Obviously, everyone knows they were once the same country.

I loved it when I went to India with 2 other white Brit's and a lad of Pakistani extraction. Much trouble at the airport for him. But he was a twunt so I didn't mind.

Our bags didn't make the connection, with the notable exception of his empty one he'd brought to take cheap stuff home. Rather than putting it in his other bag, he'd sent it separately, just because he could. Since some of his luggage had arrived he got zero compensation whilst the rest of us got £100 for our trouble.

[RetSet]

They haven't traveled enough, take India, for example, the Indians hate the Pakistanis with a passion.
Obviously, everyone knows they were once the same country.

Also see The People's Democratic Republic of Yorkshire and the rest of the UK

[MrMarkyMark]

I visited Jamaica a few years back, and the black locals were openly racist against asians there.

But if you read the Guardian or the BBC, only white people are racists.

They haven't traveled enough, take India, for example, the Indians hate the Pakistanis with a passion.
Obviously, everyone knows they were once the same country.

[minestrone]

Che Guevara was a rampant racist, on a par with the worst white supremacists.

His supporters like the t-shirt more than actually reading what he wrote or understanding what he did.

[DimPrawn]

I visited Jamaica a few years back, and the black locals were openly racist against asians there.

But if you read the Guardian or the BBC, only white people are racists.

[original PM]

quite a common thing - a lot of india's fookin hate africans and do see them as inferior....

[LondonManc]

Does this explain why we off-shore to India and not Uganda?

[minestrone]

Not a great deal by the sounds of it...

According to the book, Gandhi described black Africans *as “savage,” “raw” and living a life of “indolence and nakedness,” and he campaigned relentlessly to prove to the British rulers that the Indian community in South Africa was superior to native black Africans. The book combs through Gandhi’s own writings during the period and government archives and paints a portrait that is at variance with how the world*regards him today.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...91441447912162

*resists urge to put in a laugh smiley*