Ever since the attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, there has been a drastic increase in the amount of discrimination towards the Indian ethnicity. Throughout my research on this topic, I came across many stories told my Indian men who expressed the amount of hate they have received on multiple occasions.
Everyone now automatically assumes being Indian somehow relates to being a terrorist. Interestingly enough, it was a group of Islamic men (Al-Qaeda), who were behind the 9/11 incident. Unfortunately though, all people--mainly men--who look anything like an Islamic man is assumed to be a terrorist by the general public.
Muslims, Islamists, Arabs, etc. have all been settled into one category, meaning that they are all associated with the word "terrorist." Sadly, the government did not exactly help this increased discrimination. Many Indian men were forcefully taken from their homes and put placed into prisons for interrogation. Airline authorities pull more men of Indian decent out of security lines and into further investigation more than any other ethnicity. The impact of 9/11 has had a huge negative impact on our country, and many Indian men have had to pay a large price for legitimate reason.
