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Ok I see you and hear you and you are right, some racism is because of colonialism. But India did have a big problem with race and classes before the British. I'm not educated enough to know if it wasspecifically skin tone as well as region and which caste you were born in, but the idea that racism only comes from colonizers is super false.
It's also weirdly racist in its own way, supporting the "noble savage" myth.
Oh absolutely. Please do not hear me blaming all bigotry and racism on the West. Far far from it.
There has always been an "othering" of people. I mean in Honduras, the Mayans trampled tons of smaller tribes and subjected them to their ethnocentric views. This is nothing new.