The Indian American Community Is Toxic? #shorts

another hot take here that some people can probably relate to - Is the indian american (desi) community toxic? What do you guys think?

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[Shadow-jkmb]

There is difference between competitive and toxic

[HemanthKumarJadhav]

They can't even differentiate between Competition and toxicity. Are they even Indians?

[spiritmi]

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[drvren]

sorry, but I have to agree with the first guy 100%. and I thank him for addressing it. seriously, I couldn't make friends with that many indian American friends in my community, because they realized how "non-competitive" I was, and they thought it was lame, and distanced me. in my school they were so-called friends, but they were just opportunistic people who competed against each other and called that "fun".
competition is not toxic, but bringing Indian Americans together calling them "family" and "United together", when really there's just cheap opportunistic and competition amongst them, THAT is toxic for sure.
yes it was tough for our parents to get to this country, yeah but that's the problem. the parents and grandparents who struggled to get to the US, made their entire life about competition to get to the US, but then they force that shit on us and tell us that life is nothing but a race and you can't just be in the present. they pressure us to get high societal status, doesn't matter how much stress or pressure it puts on us, that we're always being compared to some other kid and the parents cannot just have a solid good relationship with the kids. there's a lot of trauma for immigrant families in the last 100 years, but the solution to that is not to just pass it down to your future generations and always keep them competitive and stressed 24/7 and putting societal status first.

[stevenayare]

That’s true, most American creators of Indian origin can’t talk anything other than being brown

[dipanjanachoudhury]

The last guy is actually a human and talks real

[Not-Ap]

There is reason why in traditional Indian spirituality the goal is to overcome the ego and be freed from it. Indian Americans embrace the Ego since that's what Americans value the most. The result is toxicity or narcissism.

[ruhb]

He is not talking about healthy compitition
he is talking about toxic compitition.

[vijaykumar]

The people agreeing on IND American community toxic ..shame on you ...that is called u don't support your own community no one else will ....if there is any wrong in our community try to get solutions rather complaining....your parents or your grand parents entry into USA is not easy ... there will always be competition among anyone....nobody will lay red carpet to your life

[radeonblue]

I think they are jealous of somebody's success in their own community rather then focussing on their own goals and making their own dreams come true.

[ShineComments]

I feel like he has a good point that a lot of us are not willing to come to terms with and a lot of it is just very deeply ingrained in our personality and a little bit of an outside perspective is nice sometimes

[willlee]

Ya'll forgot jealousy can be a toxic behavior too

[Enigma]

Competitiveness is fine but there are many kids who get no love at home and are pressured into going into fields they don’t want. Yes they go on to make good money but alot of them are miserable. The reason they need arranged marriages is because they have no emotional intelligence to actually find love themselves because all they were forced to do was study and get good grades. It’s not as black and white and i wouldn’t say the whole community but a good portion especially the uneducated community forces their kids to go into fields they dint want to in hopes that they will lift the whole family out of poverty

[raghav]

Very good, when you can't face competition call it toxic and you are free from your side

[godsoffice]

My dynamic to this is that Indian American are not actually Indians but full fledged Americans.

Since ironically identity is a thing that will stick to you for the rest of your life, when they get disapproved by Americans who hate them they tried to call India but India hates westerners mindset, our religion, culture, living methods, logic forming, moralistic viewpoint everything is different than these guys so they just try to perceive india from their point of view and meddle woth indian affairs amd calk them names, criticize India on many things online, label themselves as indians and then make fun of how Indians live of their gods to feed into that slave mentality. Idk maybe these is why they are perceived as toxic, since their views always clash with Indians and westerners don't accept them.

They be saying dil sei hindustani even if I'm NRI but dude be walking half naked with nail polish and a bra and making woke comments, or some of them just can't handle indian culture so they act unruly which doesn't end up well, so yeah they are only in the name Indians.

This quote ironically defines them well: Dhobi ka kutta na ghar ka na ghat ka.

Obviously no hate but take it with grain of salt, reality is gray either accept it as it is or view it from your viewpoint that can be used for self validation.

[vispro]

I can see a lot of comments stating that "its called competition" and thats because that is what they're taught in India, to compete! and not to grow togather.

[wisteriaaa_]

This is so off topic but his eyes are beautiful

[MB-bzmk]

Indian culture is not toxic, other culture are better at hiding their jealousy.

Indian are more competitive and sincerely happy for your achievements

[WolfManThoughts]

This is the Indian youth today and not just the Indian-American Community. This is happening in India as well.

[saw]

Bro graduated in Broconomics. Indians are competitive as hell. You can’t stand out in 1.4 billion people if you are not competitive. Your friends won’t help you for ever and you have to fight your own battles than expecting everyone to drop their life and help you.