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JI7

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3. bollywood also "borrows" a lot from black american hip hop culture

Reply to kwassa (Original post)

Wed Mar 29, 2017, 11:54 PM

Mar 2017

i can't stand those movies but just watching a bit of it, especially the song/dance scenes you can see it.

someone needs to call it out. but the film industry is just as bad as many other areas.

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Race and color in India. [View all] kwassa Mar 2017 OP

India is the only place I've been that's as racist as the US Recursion Mar 2017 #1

i agree and it seems to be getting worse JI7 Mar 2017 #2

A few years ago, I would even have listened to the argument that BJP was going to fix it Recursion Mar 2017 #4

bollywood also "borrows" a lot from black american hip hop culture JI7 Mar 2017 #3

Racism in India goes back 4000-5000 years back at140 Sep 2019 #5

Yup, and dark skinned Indians like me are called black, as if that's an insult IronLionZion Sep 2019 #6