Anglo-Indians: A Diminishing Minority of India. Meet Glenda Michelle Singh

[hanros98]

anglo indians are so obsessed with english roots, they taught they were better and more special than normal indians. the truth is english people don't care much more about anglo indians than normal indians.

[TheTwollocks]

@hanros98 its always the same if your father or mother was born in a different country to where you were born ... that son or daughter will always take more of an interest in that other culture and country of that parent its just natural i doubt they were being arrogent

[hanros98]

@TheTwollocks actually that is true good point

[citizenOfNowhere777]

@hanros98 Exactly. There wre Anglo-Indians in where I grew up, a SE Asia. I didn't have much encounterment with them until in US. Three sisters, dirt poor and working as housekeepers to American family and eyt they wanted to act superior to me who came to US on student visa and finished my MS degree by the time I met them. I knew they were jealous but I didn't point out their origin until they started acting superior blatently.

[hanros98]

@citizenOfNowhere777 i guess they had to cling to something to make them feel better after the british left as they didn't quite fit in with indian society

[citizenOfNowhere777]

@hanros98 Well, whatever that they wanted to cling onto, it'd better be

we are superiod because we have white blood". Not after the whitemasters have abandoned them. But that's what they did. It's like they have no self-respect..

[citizenOfNowhere777]

@hanros98 Contd.. but I didn't point out their origin until they started acting superior blatently. all know that most of Anglo Indians were fathered by Irish soldiers who never married the woman they impregnated. Not that that made them any less human but they should know their own roots before trying to put down others. The other Anglo-Asians (of that British time) do not behave like that (I am their descendant), not in these days anyway. I gave the info by printing the article on it.

[TheDragon967]

Anglo-Indians consider themselves Indians or what? 

[xardas611]

It was considered baller to be an indian dude and banging a british chick back in the colonial era. so the wealthy indian men had lighter skinned offspring which is why wealthy indians are lighter than the rest of the population

[mikeylord1875]

@xardas611 I'm afraid none of that is true, there were very few British women in colonial India because of the lack of British women a sizeable minority of British army men did marry local girls, there has been almost no examples of it happening the other way round, but I need to stress this has nothing to do with why lighter Indians are more wealthy, this goes back to the deeper prejudices that has always been present in Indian society were being paler was seen as more upper class.

[xardas611]

@mikeylord1875

of course its true!!

[waytobluee]

@mikeylord1875 interesting

[alanbmw745]

@mikeylord1875 This is the same for Mexico, where being paler was seen as more European/Spanish and upper class. what nonsense!

[citizenOfNowhere777]

@alanbmw745 Anglo-Indians are not considered upper class in India. They were hated as British supporters during British time and are marginal to society in post British era. As outsiders of the mainstream Indian society, most Anglo-Indians acted like they're better because they had lighter skin color.

[gatheringleaves]

@citizenOfNowhere777

Yeah it's the same here in America, light skinned people of African descent think they're better than Dark skinned African Americans.

[zenith808]

@citizenOfNowhere777

Please define *Class*? Anglo-Indians had more social culture in their little fingers than the Indians of the time. AS with all cultures you will have the less fortunate (maybe those were the people you know of). If Anglo-Indians *acted* better, it's because they were-and still are. Pls get your facts right and don't base your comments on a microscopic view of our culture.

[citizenOfNowhere777]

@zenith808 I didn't say 'class". I said "caste" moron. Despite being abandoned by your British masters, you people still can't get out slavish mind, can you? What a pity!

[citizenOfNowhere777]

@zenith808 MOST overwheling Anglos-Indians are born out of the lowest social class of both groups (Indians and Irish or whatever else that came to India). If you wan tti talk about class, do you research and instead fg picking on era where your grandparents were used your puppet masters for their administration. Anglo-Indians couldn't exist except as the puppets of the slave masters. When the masters were gone, the slaves got no puppet jobs and no other skills to do anything else either.

[citizenOfNowhere777]

@mikeylord1875 You are forgetting that most of the British soldiers (most soldiers were Irish) abandoned the women they impregnated and did not marry them.

[TheTwollocks]

@citizenOfNowhere777  another american desperate to be seen as irish .... pathetic

[citizenOfNowhere777]

@TheTwollocks Pathetic is you because I am not even Caucasian, you fool.

[citizenOfNowhere777]

@xardas611 Not true that wealthy Indians got their lighter skin color from being mixed with British. You just do not know Indian history enough. Stop talking nonsense.

[zenith808]

@xardas611 -Cannot believe I am actually deigning to respond to this..but your observations are a load of rubbish!

[citizenOfNowhere777]

@xardas611 BTW, if there were any children from wealthy Indian men and British women, these children would not be accepted by mainstream Indian society because they'd have no caste.

[TheTwollocks]

@citizenOfNowhere777  its funny how you can tell people are american just by thier comments

[jmsnooks]

@citizenOfNowhere777 Then why are Hindu men trying to mack to Anglo-Indian women all the time? Don't tell me it doesn't happen because I have seen it.

[citizenOfNowhere777]

@jmsnooks I do not know what you're talking abut. I am not from India or even South Asia.

[jmsnooks]

@citizenOfNowhere777 OK I thought maybe you were from there because of how much you were talking about Anglo-Indians. Where are you from then?

[gusrikh]

It's Cliff Richard and NOT Cliff Richards.

[chatterbox123ish]

my dad is Anglo-Indian and was born in Lucknow, he came to England in 1965 at the age of four.

[optimisticbabe]

@chatterbox123ish what are you? other than part anglo indian.

[chatterbox123ish]

@optimisticbabe My mother is white British.

[chatterbox123ish]

@optimisticbabe my mother is white british.

[angloindian1]

Nice one, good see more people uploading stuff. Regards, Nigel

[taildragger53]

I'm Anglo-Indian and was raised in the UK from 1958 to 2000.

Now in Canada since 2000..

Many Anglos in the UK just say their Indian to save the process of having to explain. Most Anglos are marrying outside of the community and alot of that cause is due to the fact that many Anglo girls prefer to marry Europeans. Incidentally you can add Alistair McGowan, Boris Karloff, Ben Kingsley to your list.

Many thanks!

(peter)

[austimatt]

My father was Anglo-Indian, originally from Bangalore but he lived all over the South. He emigrated to England in 1957. Hearing Glenda talk (and especially her accent) brought back lots of memories of my father. Many thanks.