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Anti-Indian sentiment, pajeet being mainstream and dating patterns
There has been a hockey stick like growth in terms of anti Indian sentiment online where people use the word pajeet (or jeet) for people of ancestry from the Indian subcontinent, pajeeta if you are female. Likely coined on 4chan to target sikhs who like telugus have been notorious for doing whatever it takes to get out of the country and bringing their cousins aling too, many of thier names end the suffix jeet, hence the ethnic slur "Pajeet". 2 years ago NDTV, a mainstream English speaking Indian news channel did a program about the usage of the word pajeet and how it shot up, I remember that because I was a niche microcelebe and a lot of my mutuals started using the word pajeet to describe other Indians who behaved like the stereotype, at that time the sentinemtn towards Indians on twitter was not as bad lol.
Here is Charleston White partaking in hitting the new pinata in town. In the online circles, the name has been adopted by some who use it to describe a large number of people who unfortunately fit the negative stereotypes. Due to extreme amounts of poverty and a large number of people where the HBD balance is skewed heavily due to various subclans and well things you are legally not supposed to talk about. The stereotype describes the person being smelly, extremely dishonest, high amounts of nepotism and being overall unattractive due to being skinny fat, short and dark. Most Indians absolutely do fuck others over, especially others of their own kind, scam call centres scammed my dad's colleague out of 50k USD and tried to get my own dad thrice. I simply wish to know how this seemed to have happened, the rise against an entire subcontinent overnight did take me by surprise.
My own experiences are not the same as firstly all the euros or non-Indians I met were tourists or digital nomads, most probably thought I was Jewish or Arabic or something since I am slightly different looking. This is to say that I did not encounter any racism that others of my ilk probably faced. My travels have been very limited to just Southeast Asia too, I would suspect that it is more hostile on the internet than irl. The subcontinent certainly has all the issues mentioned here and more though the people who migrate without indulging in out-and-out fraud are not this way at all. More than half the people migrate via various dishonest tactics but a very large number is of genuinely talented people who are likely suffering from being bunched together with others. It is as if you can just call Indians or Jews names online and you will go viral, is it because quite a few people from both ethnicities are high on the totem poll now that bioleninism is purity cycling where you could only say stuff against Caucasians and East Asians before.
One theory I have is that due to a lot of Incels online being Indian and the sharp growth of internet usage in India thanks to super cheap data, the vast majority of them being people who fit the stereotypes. There are plenty of Indians who just are not like the stereotype while many absolutely do fit it due to a combination of poverty, culture, and maybe genetics, I do have a soft spot for those who migrated out and have to be associated with the bottom of the barrel people at home and border jumping swindlers in the west.
Incel forums and looksmaxxing becoming more mainstream plays a big part too. Most would use the term currycel for self-description with ricecel being for east asians. The oxford study results paint a grim picture for East Asians where it states that women of east asia are more likely to prefer dating people of other races with whites being highest rated, I would argue that the subcontinent and south-east Asia has the similar issues. Posters on incel forums would self-deprecate quite heavily, whilst I mention the shortcomings of people here sometimes, it is never me saying stuff like ethnic tax. Quite a lot of the info you see out there did come from these forums.
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In Thailand the nightclubs with tourists were basically tourists and Thai girls, barely any Thai dudes at all, you most only see mixed-race couples where the guy was non-Thai and the woman wasn't. These are taboo topics you cannot discuss that incels brought up on various forums. They would always cite Elliot Rodgers the supreme gentleman as an example of why this mating strategy would be worse for Hapas (half-east Asians). Sort of a tangent here but I never did see this being brought up. I never had an issue with interacting with girls of any race in nightclubs, during my extremely short time in SEA I nearly exclusively spoke with girls from my region, a few Arabics (Christians somehow, every time) and mostly Euros. Is the whole race and dating thing really that fucked? thought I would say that Eastern Asian and South-east asian women, in general, were super receptive, way way more than any I had ever met, I never went home with one or anything but it did feel odd how me not being East/Southeast Asian was a positive in their eyes. Anyhow, apologies for the long meandering post, I had something happen yesterday that did scare me lol.
Anti-Indian sentiment within the Anglosphere seems mostly confined to Canada and the UK, increasing in the former noticeably in the last few years because of the enormous ongoing immigration wave and diplomatic disputes over the relict Khalistan movement-in-exile. Indian-Americans are a cut above most other immigrant groups as far as education, income, and general "merit" go, even compared to Indians in other countries, so they don't tend to draw a lot of flak. Perhaps if India achieves a similar global status as China, Indians here will go from being ignored all the time to occasionally being harassed due to geopolitical events before being ignored again.
In the last few years the gender imbalances in interracial relationships seem to have evened out a bit in the US, at least with respect to Asians. I assume the increased prominence of Korean music and pop culture around the world had something to do with this. It will probably take popular perceptions a while to catch up and the stereotypes that were validated by the old OkCupid data are still alive and well, usually played for laughs but sometimes tinged with real resentment, particularly from the groups at the bottom of the totem pole i.e. Asian men and Black women.
I haven't really seen much Anti-Indian sentiment in the UK (outside of hardcore EDL types, who don't like anyone not British). I don't have the numbers to hand but I'm pretty sure they're one of the highest earning, least criminal demographics over here.
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Indians are not a popular ethnicity among blue collar Americans.
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A lot of this is because the causes of the imbalances are starting to disappear: fewer Asian Americans are immigrants with poor linguistic and cultural fluency. Women, whether tourists or immigrants, get laid more easily in foreign countries because men don't value those things.
Various ethnic phenotypical stereotypes are less important than social status.
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Attitudes towards Indians are similarly positive in the UK, for the same reason. They are rich, well-educated, law-abiding. Like the Chinese they are considered model immigrants and usually vote Conservative.
Pakistanis are less popular, for reasons.
Indians in the UK vote more conservative than those in the US lol thanks to Pakistanis living next to them.
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This is a legacy of the majority of British-Indians pre-2010 being relatively highly educated, often very highly educated, and generally well acclimatised. There were teething issues of course- black and white skinheads would team up to do a bit of 'paki bashing' that usually targeted brown people indiscriminately.
But 1 in 6 British Indians were of East African extraction (read, middleman minority) as late as 2001, with the remainder being largely merchant-class Gujaratis. Essentially the same stereotype and class of people as Indians in America.
These positive feelings will soon fade with the latest Boriswave. Vast numbers of single men working as deliveroo drivers do not a model minority make. Anecdotally, my 2nd Gen British-Indian friends used to mock and make fun of "freshies" (fresh off the boat people) for being crude, uneducated etc. when in reality most of them were visiting accountants from Bombay. Those mocking comments have largely stopped as I think they see that the the new wave of Indian migrants do fit all the stereotypes. An interesting dynamic to say the least. I don't see the positive attitude lasting, and I think sooner rather than later the 2nd and 3rd gen British Indians will get over their semi-ethnic solidarity and realise that these new arrivals are giving them a bad name, and advocate for their removal. Braverman/Patel gave this rhetoric at least, although their actions are questionable. Due to these largely being single men with unstable employment, they should be easy to remove with a bit of willpower. Not the same dynamic as established families and communities.
How imbalanced are the demographics of recent Indian immigrants to the UK? The statistics are presumably available.
I actually think these statistics are relatively difficult to get access to- the 2021 Census a) missed the large numbers of people who arrived 2021-2024 and b) almost certainly vastly undercounted. Roughly 3 million people have arrived in the country Jan 2021-Dec 2023 according to migration observatory, and most of these arrivals won't feature in the Census data, plus whatever the 2024 numbers are. The census estimated 1.9m Indians living in the UK in 2021. Between 2021-2023, the official preliminary numbers estimated 670,000 Indian nationals arrived on long term visas. Adding in people overstaying short term visas, plus the 2024 numbers, and 1 million total Indian arrivals since the Census took place looks reasonable. My 95% confidence interval for Indians in the UK would be 2.75m-3.5m, as I have no idea what the potential undercount might be. This doesn't include Sri Lankans, Nepalese, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis but does include 2nd and 3rd gens ticking the Indian ethnicity box.
Going just off the primary language census data (with the caveats noted above), Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi and Tamil speakers have seen the largest proportional increases since 2011. So mostly South Indians/Dravidians. The established languages have all either plateaued (Punjabi, Urdu) or fallen (Bengali, Gujarati) which probably reflects the maturation of these groups as their 2nd gen offspring use English as a main language. Of course Bengali, Urdu and Punjabi speakers are probably mostly of Bangladeshi or Pakistani origin.
I repeat that, anecdotally, very recent Indian migration in particular seems to heavily skew towards men. This might be a feature of where I live rather than for the whole of the UK. I can't find any stats to back this up, especially as trying to make estimates that don't factor in the 1m post-census arrivals would be redundant.
Whereabouts do you live? You’re probably correct but I wonder if it’s balanced out by large numbers of female NHS etc workers now that Filipinos and Poles are being joined by both Nigerians and Indians in larger numbers.
Quite possible, I live in one of the nice but not elite areas of zone 2. Demographically speaking it is probably similar to the other nicer parts of inner London, low in white British but relatively high in general white population via Americans/Europeans, more (2nd gen/upper class) Indians and Chinese than Pakistanis/Bangladeshis etc. My exposure to the recent arrivals then are mostly through service job interactions and the swathes of food delivery couriers, and the tube. I have practically 0 interaction with the NHS, so this could be correct. Nigerians I think are almost certainly more balanced demographically. Given the huge changes in HMO licensing and rental patterns, I don't think that these new mostly male Indian arrivals have wives or girlfriends at home, but rather live 8 to a flat with other single 20-something men. A lot of the time the landlords for these properties are themselves upper class and/or 2nd gen Indians who extract/exploit the maximum they can from these new tenants.
Take the recent scandal from Jas Athwal, the labour MP recently as a slum landlord in East London. Anecdotally, a property I used to rent a long time ago I saw has been converted from a 3 bed to a 5 bed (by turning everyone room except the kitchen and bathroom into bedrooms). The landlady is (unsurprisingly) a 2nd gen East African Gujarati who rotates between London/Dubai/Kenya. This is quite a common pattern that I have seen from parents of friends and colleagues.
Edit: of course the other possibility is that a similar but gender reversed situation is taking place with Indian women, where they live in large HMOs and all work in the NHS, in some kind of parallel world. But I don't think is happening, at least not on the same scale as the men.
Are we talking like Islington / Maida Vale / Clapham tier, here?
Yeah, it’s interesting, natives are highly concentrated in the outer suburbs, the richest are strongly concentrated in Chelsea / Fulham / the immediate vicinity of The Surprise, with another large group slightly north around Holland Park / Notting Hill, and to some extent in Hampstead and leafier parts of North London (along with Jews and Indians).
Here in Mayfair there are almost no natives, it is predominantly Arabs, some Russians, Africans and Chinese (although the latter prefer Nine Elms / Battersea Power Station / South Bank Apartment buildings), and moderately large contingents of wealthy Americans, Italians and French (although in general French and Scandinavians prefer Marylebone), mostly young (men) who work in hedge funds or PE nearby. Marylebone also seems to have a lot of rich Aussies along with many Americans and a few Brits here and there, mostly older.
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You cant mass import 80 iq people who obviously are gaming the system like refugees or most migrants and expect to have a sane living situation. Demographic concerns are very real, my own people are a micro minority here despite having ruled since time immemorial, you dont wanna face that.
Indians can be genuinely very smart, a good number are but most game systems via incorrect means. Khalistan is a about as likely as earth splitting in half in the next 2 days.
K pop does make korean guys smewhat more appealing to some younger girls but it isnt that large an impact. Okcupid data was fairly accurate. I dont have issues because I learnt to cold approach, I cannot imagine what its like being a legit incel in some place like NY where you have the hottest women ever born whilst you can barely get a landwhale to match with you. Dating apps are a scam anyway though they represent reality in a world where you have nothing going for you. Most guys are that way, very few actually are attractive personality-wise. I would not want to be some fresh off the boat asian or south asian guy who is short and cant get any intimacy whilst his sister can go and realistically have short-term flings with male model-tier guys since dudes would hit anything.
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