Kill the Indian First

Horrible article. Its deeply internalized racism. I know many of the criticisms are true, and as a statistical generalization I might agree that an Indian is more likely to e.g seek a way to circumvent the system than someone else. An outsider looking at Indians as a homogeneous group and seeing those patterns might make negative inferences about all Indians.

But when a person who does not embody those flaws blames himself for the ones that do - its because he has become accustomed to seeing himself as an outsider does, as an interchangeable member of a group called "Indian" instead of as an INDIVIDUAL. Being stereotyped is simply not your fault.