Coming back from living in Texas, I'm finding myself becoming more and more racist against all the influx of brown immigrants here, and I'm not happy I'm becoming this way.
As much as I hated Texas, it was refreshing to see every racial background working service related jobs, it felt more balanced from that perspective. Coming back to Vancouver it's become so jarring how Indians have become this weird feudal class of cheap workers for all our businesses. You can tell they know they're being taken advantage of too because they're quality of service writ large is just garbage, I think that's what causing me more frustration day to day. I find sometimes they can't even speak basic English, and I wonder "How were you able to immigrate without even speaking the native language?".
I just bought a new flat screen for the front room and I'm selling my prior one on FB, and I'm not kidding 99% of the messages (over 50) are from Indians, haggling with me, asking me to drop whatever item off in Surrey. I feel like an asshole because I dug through all the messages just to find the one Vietnamese guy in the sea of crap to specifically sell to him instead.
When my GF sells stuff on FB, she gets nothing but messages from brown dudes wanting to meet up and "buy" her skirt, she's becoming the same way now
It just feels like these immigration numbers don't add up, at least from daily anecdotal experiences, it's so heavily skewed in one direction, to one diaspora of people.
I'm venting here, and I love my brown friends, but god damn this city is pushing me in a direction, and changing me to the kind of person I don't like.