Robert Jansen

I've been fascinated by the comments by Indian-origin observers about the visible rise in anti-Indian sentiment in the wider society. There's no doubt it's there and I've found it particularly puzzling as someone who grew up with Indo-Canadians in B.C. and always felt that the mostly Sikh kids I grew up with were so well integrated into the larger community. Kids of all shades played road hockey, rode bikes and went to events together. It was just what being a kid in the 1970s and 80s was like. My kids had more or less the same experience in the 1990s and 2000s. Other than the odd controversy like turbans in the RCMP which quickly and unemotionally died down, there was no real overt and widespread anti-Indian sentiment that I could put my finger on. From Ujjal Dosanjh to Herb Dhaliwal to Moe Sihota, Indo-Canadians were leaders in communities that weren't even majority Indo-Canadian. So what's happened? I've often looked at comments from @rupasubramanya for insight and here's another take from the U.S. that I found fascinating. It's hard to chalk it up to run of the mill racism when some of the most pointed and public comments actually come from other Indo-origin observers. ⬇️⬇️⬇️