The Indian Racial Psyche

Well here goes another blog on a movie that i watched recently....

"Crash" has beautifully shown how a dark racial hatred still persists in the minds of the sauve urban population of a nation that calls itself the most potent force to dominate world politics.It makes me wonder that all the talk about being built on the bedrock of racial diveristy and tolerance is no more than a big sham. In fact the country is a melting pot of different civilizations whose concerns and awareness about their own identity grow only stronger once they come in contact with other cultures. In fact the lure of money is so strong that we often overlook such crisis and fall prey to the call of all those visas that are waiting for us. The Americans seem to have forgotten that their nation is strong only because the individual monetary aspirations of a vast majority of people are fulfilled on their soil and these are migrants from different parts of the globe.

Doesn't the movie also remind us of the Indian mentality wherein on the surface we show that all is hunky dory but deep inside the casteist divisions that are sown into our mind since childhood are waiting to explode once we become adults and are thrown into an arena where often caste wins over merit and all that has been told to us actually comes out to be true. Does a cosmopolitan education and upbringing help us get rid of such notions or are the pressures of a daily and a mundane existence so great that they are able to keep reason at bay.

All nations are racists....all humans are racists..... in fact if we were not racists/nationalists/casteist/ would cultures and civilizations have actually grown and thrived without being driven by the desire of an individual identity...??