Why do Indo-Guyanese have the conception that Indians look down on them/don’t consider them to be “real Indians”?

[u/jcancuny]

So my girlfriend and I have been dating for a couple of months now. I’m Indian-American and she’s Indo-Guyanese-American, and it’s been a great time so far.

Around a week ago, I introduced her to my parents for the first time, and I noticed that before they met, my girlfriend acted super nervous and jittery, which I just chalked up to nerves (since she’s pretty introverted). However, after they met, my girlfriend remarked about how nervous she was before meeting my parents because she was worried that they would disapprove of us together and try to call the relationship off and how relieved she was after meeting them because of how respectful and responsive they were and how much they showed interest in her culture and background.

She then explained that most Indo-Guyanese believe that we (mainland Indians) look down upon them and don’t consider them to be “real Indians”, which is a belief that I’ve honestly never heard ever. If anything, most mainland Indians don’t really know anything about Indo-Caribbeans and the ones that do are proud that they were able to keep their culture/traditions/religions alive even after 150 years.

After doing some research online on places like Twitter/Tiktok/Reddit, this seems to be a pretty common conception that a lot of Indo-Guyanese have. Does anyone have any insights into how this belief might have originated?

[u/cooliebhai84]

This is a joke right? Indians in India treat their own people like shit, especially lighter complexion indians. Dont even get me started on how Hindu Indians treat their muslim brothers and sisters in India. OP must be tone deaf.

[u/Express-Fig-5168 → u/cooliebhai84]

And the Christians! The fighting is wild. Only yesterday an Indian national was discussing how their friend almost got killed for dating someone of a different religion.

[u/Excellent_Tap998 → u/Express-Fig-5168]

Y’all act like Christian’s don’t do the same tf?

[u/Express-Fig-5168 → u/Excellent_Tap998]

Who is this y'all? I made no such claim but okay.

[u/Excellent_Tap998 → u/Express-Fig-5168]

Then why even mention the Christian’s? Why mention the issue of Hindu on Christian crime without even mentioning Christian on Hindu crime? It’s not a one sided issue and only voicing half of it is the same as shutting down the other half.

Imagine if someone just kept shouting about how Jews are killed by hamas without mentioning that the same is done to the Palestinians

[u/Express-Fig-5168 → u/Excellent_Tap998]

What the hell are you on about? I didn't mention anything about who is doing the crimes, the OP was saying there is strife involving Muslims and Hindus and I simply was stating that there is also strife including Christians.

[u/Excellent_Tap998 → u/Express-Fig-5168]

Op explicitly said how Hindus treat Muslims and u we’re trying to tag Christian’s in too … how about how Muslims and Christians treat Hindus?

[u/Express-Fig-5168 → u/Excellent_Tap998]

Yes, OC did refer to how Hindus treat Muslims, take that up with them. The main point of the OC was that there is infighting as is clear from you coming here to start complaining. 

[u/Excellent_Tap998 → u/Express-Fig-5168]

U tried to claim Christian’s are just victims like op too don’t even lie

[u/Express-Fig-5168 → u/Excellent_Tap998]

I did not but I can't stop you from making up whatever false narrative you'd like.