Dojima's Dragon got banned, presumably for
strange, unsettling shit he posted in the #BPGoonerGate thread. Right after complimenting me too. I appreciate the kind words, but good
God man, you flew way too damn close to the fucking sun. His posts legit sounded like a rapey, thirsty pajeet.
It's very very VERY important to remember this: There is no such thing as a self-aware or "good" pajeet, they throw their own race under the bus to make you think "they're one of the good ones".
You're not wrong, but if I may nuance something here: you're speaking broadly about 1.2+ billion people, spread across a landmass that's quite literally called a "subcontinent" for good reason. If you care to listen to an ambiguously South Asian guy ramble for X amount of time, feel free to keep reading. Otherwise, negrate me, dunk on me, say stupid shit on my profile, or whatever else and move on.
Before I begin, I'd like to say one thing: China and India have way more in common than they'd ever care to admit. One critical similarity is how they're colossal nation-states in the modern era who control
huge swathes of continental Asia. Another critical similarity is how the northern portions of their landmasses had an outsized impact on their respective region's history and cultural development. Northern India and Northern China exist along flat, open plains with fertile rivers making settlement and consolidating power, culture, and language really easy to do. The same can't be said for South India and South China, where rugged plateaus and hills plus tropical jungle dominate most of the terrain.
Where India and China diverge significantly is the fact that China, on some level, was able to assimilate and homogenise the various peoples of the mainland into a unified Han Chinese identity (speaking broadly here, minorities in China still number in the millions or tens of millions per group, despite being really small percentages of the overall population). This was not the case in India. North India (including Pakistan and Bangladesh) almost universally speak some type of Indo-Aryan language. The people of South India speak
Dravidian languages, which are in a wholly distinct language family. The type of Indians that the French and Portuguese met in Pondicherry and the Malabar Coast were
not the same type of Indians that the British came across during their first expeditions into the Bay of Bengal or during their first wars with the Sikh Empire.
That last detail is important because "India" and "Pakistan" generally don't have cohesive national identities. Pakistan is a mishmash of Indo-Aryan and Indo-Iranian peoples split apart by artificial borders, united only by Islam and broadly similar (though not identical) cultural traditions. Indo-Aryan dominance in North India means that Hindi is the common tongue people speak in, whereas English takes the place of lingua franca in South India. South Indians generally disdain the imposition of Hindi as a lingua franca, and it's an unending flame war that's fun to watch if you know the right social media spaces to lurk in. The only Indo-Aryan language they're willing to speak is Sanskrit, and that's only if they're Hindus quoting from the Vedas during some ceremony.
Circling back to your original point, I wanna end on this (speaking purely for myself, not other Desi people): I tend to view myself as Desi first, American second. Among other Desi people, I tend to priortise shared language than national identity. Pakistani and Indian diaspora have intermingled and let bygones be bygones abroad, and the internet means you find Desi niggas in the strangest fucking places. Yeah, it's definitely true that Desi people can and definitely will either exploit or throw their own under the bus for self-gain. That said, it's equally true for Desi people to kinda stick with their closest ethnolinguistic groups that they can clearly talk to, and generally not interact with people outside those groups.
Reminder: I'm sperging about a billion and a half people spread across a
subcontinent. Do
not take my word, or anyone else's, as definitive or authoritative; I'm just a Desi dude trying to have fun on the internet. If I see some repugnant shit, I generally try to get the hell outta dodge regardless. If I see other Desi people doing repugnant shit, I also hang my head in secondhand shame.
