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@Magadha Naresh for creating this thread promoting enemity between Indians from different parts of the country that too in times like this which I believe was the primary reason you created this thread.
This is just a new form of oppression politics, cooked up by politicians to serve their own interests. People often use their limited personal experiences to generalise and claim victimhood, but the reality is far more nuanced. There's a common perception in parts of southern India that they are inherently more progressive and accommodating, while lumping all of the so-called "North"—which strangely includes western and eastern states too—as xenophobic and backward.
But let me tell you: they’re not any different from other Indians. I’ve seen, and spoken to, migrant workers in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu who’ve faced xenophobic slurs and discrimination—often from locals. So this narrative of "we're always the victims, they're always the oppressors" is shallow and one-sided.
Xenophobia, casteism, sexism—they exist in every part of India, from east to west, north to south. I from so called eastern India & I have extended family working in Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka. They’ve encountered both warm, respectful people and loudmouthed bigots. Do they hate those states because of a few bad experiences? No. Do they consider Gujaratis or Kannadigas as Xenophobic because of some bad experience? Nope.
As for this whole language-chauvinism wave—it’s a slippery slope that leads to dangerous outcomes. Look at how it has played out before. In Kashmir during the 60s and 70s, even sections of the Kashmiri Pandit community supported independence and excluded non-Kashmiri settlers, only to be eventually branded as outsiders themselves and driven out.
When you start building identity on exclusive linguistic pride, it always risks turning into an “insider vs outsider” issue. Even Malayalis face discrimination from fringe language purists in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. And in Bengal, slogans like “Bangla Bangali jonyr, baharigoto der bap-er sampotti na” ("Bengal is for Bengalis; it’s not the father’s property of outsiders") are still used to alienate Odias, Assamese, Biharis, and Telugus. Some fringe idiots are so much into this language chauvinism in Bengal that they see a Bangladeshi as more closer than a fellow Indian.
In my view this language politics is eventually going to lead to seccesionist politics nothing else like how we see in Bengal & Assam. I'm disillusioned from this language kanging bs after looking at the mess that is Bengal..
@Magadha Naresh I think this thread is never going to bring anything productive should be deleted.
