So we switched from exotic fetichizing orientalism toward casual racism? Sounds like two pieces of the same coin.

I kinda feel the opposite. Seen as some backwater third world country 30 years ago, to the most populous country in the world, a democracy aligned to its own goals forming a third pole in the global order apart from the US and Russia/China.

Even their reputation as scammers comes from the insane growth of English-language tech work that is now focused in India.

That’s what colonialism does to one