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Dear Brown Girl: Proximity-To-Whiteness Does Not Make You White

Yet, there I was, feet dipped in clear water, staring into the horizon, trying to convince two middle-aged women whom I did not know that the man I was with was indeed my husband. By the fourth day of our vacation on the islands, we had got used to being stared at. But when curious glances turned to quizzical looks, we began to realise that we were considered an oddity: A brown woman with a white man. She then asked me questions about our wedding and everything that had led to it. Then the other woman, who had remained silent until then, asked me for proof. Where are your bangles? I showed them the fading mehendi on my palms.

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Have you ever seen Indian women dating white men? People are highly attracted to their opposites and look for exotic experiences. But are Indian women really looking for white men or do they mainly prefer to marry Asians?

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August 10, August 11, 5 min read By Vashali Jain. But the second time I went to meet his parents, I reached for a kurti in the back of my closet.

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Twenty Hard Things About Being Married to a White Man

As a child of Indian immigrants growing up in white suburban Connecticut, I was the only brown kid in school for most of my early childhood. Constant race-based microaggressions and straight-up bullying in elementary school taught me that my Indian identity brought ridicule and shame at the hands of my white peers. No one could pronounce my name, and both kids and teachers found humor in butchering it. We had statues of Hindu deities in our home, I knew no Bible stories, and I had never been skiing. By middle school, after years of being laughed at for being different, I knew that in order to survive socially, I needed to move as far as possible from anything Indian, so I chose to assimilate and render myself as culturally white as possible.

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