Today, I went to the premier Indian matrimonial site shaadi.com to create a profile as I have decided to enter the 'market'. In the process of filling up the form, I see a very interesting required field* - choose your complexion ! The choices follow : very fair, fair, wheatish, wheatish medium, wheatish brown, dark. 6 variations of the brown band. How much more differentiating and segragating can we get? I have heard my friends in the U.S talk about racism. What exactly is that shaadi.com is trying to get out of us? I am sure that they claim that they are only the means to promote a social evil prevalent in India and hence not responsible. We have heard similar arguments from cigarrette companies but they dont take away our will to buy or not to smoke. Shaadi.com does so by not providing us an option to say - I dont want to disclose my color, neither do I care about my mate's color. What more am I trying to say? I am trying to reflect on our race's inability to break away from a pattern even after we know how we think and that we think wrong.
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