Sick of ignorant people re my religion

Nice try. You wrote "When you colonise a country for 800 years, literally everything is your fault*🤷‍♀️ ie. Absolutely nothing carried out in Ireland, such as treatment of unmarried mothers and their babies was the fault of Irish people. Deluded and I won't engage further with your xenophobia

Denmark had an east india company.

some of you might benefit from listening to the Empire podcast

Ha right, indeed she is neither Danish nor Muslim so this particular issue probably doesn’t feature highly on her radar.

I’m married to an Indian man. We are Hindu. People assume he is Muslim all the time. Some people are just ignorant and some others aren’t curious enough to find out. Some don’t care. ‘All Indians are Muslim’ is a concept I’ve come across a LOT.

@Knulp I am Sikh and for my sins, the first assumption I would make seeing a white skinned person in India would be that they are Christian!
I think you should be more careful. I am regularly described as "Christian" by Jewish friends and family and I am NOT. When I explain to them that, I might not be Jewish but that doesn't mean I am Christian, they never remember and just say it again. I don't offend easily but I find this infuriating. They ought to know that I was brought up by parents who met in the Communist party, who were committed atheists, ditto one set of grandparents. It's quite an important part of my background and, I think, quite interesting! Yet it just gets said again casually. Grrrrr!

That weird because nobody ever said their country was a model of perfection.

If you're going to make things up in order to argue against them, why not do it alone in your head? It doesn't require the input if any of us and it's attention seeking

I'm not defending the British Empire. 🙄 I'm saying that those who think their own nationality has always been a model of perfection throughout history are usually wrong. It was another poster who used colonisation to defend people thinking all brown people are Muslim.

And I'd agree with them. So arrogant going to another country and telling them how to live and speak. If people don't like other cultures, DON'T TRAVEL. It's pretty simple.

To be fair they're not being rude, just confused about different religious dietary requirements. A simple 'Sikhs don't eat halal' would make the message fairy clear. It doesn't sound like they're being nasty.

They don't need to know about it, it's them bringing it up!

They never said all brown people were the same. They asked if the beer was halal. That is not the same thing. Not even remotely. And yes, I can already hear your extrapolation and justification, blah, blah. You are not in their heads, you can't possibly know that they think all brown people are the same.

Your religion is your concern. Why do other people need to know about it or agree with it, as long as they don't try to stop you practising?

Anyone who thinks Denmark does not have a colonial history should try asking Greenland (which is still waiting for full independence).

The people trying to make excuses for people thinking all brown people are Muslim are showing their true colours

You don't know the first thing about it. Colonisation and the ruin of a culture has very long reaching repercussions.

Anyway, your defending of the British empire is derailing the thread. The point at hand is people assuming anyone brown is a Muslim. I can't see any controversy in saying that is obviously not ok.

I am half Indian and was loosely raised Sikh. I think the UK does quite well in comparison to other countries re education on religion. Most Brits do not naturally assume I am Muslim.
It's nice for someone to say something positive about Brits for a change. The xenophobes hate it of course. 😁

Why would people only know about religions of people in their own country? It's just ignorance about the world at large.

More colonised countries were not colonised by Britain than were

Deluded if you are trying to blame the British for how unmarried mothers and babies were treated in Ireland in recent history. Eg. Tuam

How did the Irish treat their unmarried mother's any different to the British treated theirs? And btw, the laundries all started under British rule.

When you colonise a country for 800 years, literally everything is your fault 🤷‍♀️

Countries that were not big enough to colonise other countries often treated their own people abysmally instead. Eg. Irish unmarried mothers and their children.

She simply expects them not to assume all brown people are Muslim.

I suspect those complaining on this thread have similar idiotic assumptions.

My European country didn't have colonies so I'll continue to comment on the horrors of the British empire, which by the way dwarfed any other European colonies.

I doubt Danes are inherently more racist than any other nationality or culture, though my guess is that more homogeneous societies will tend to be moreso.
I'm sure the instances the OP mentions aren't malicious or nationalistic, but sure, how on earth is assuming someone's religion based soley on their colour not 'casual racism'?

The thing about racism etc is that while the intent of the person doing it matters a lot, so does the potential effect on the person on the receiving end.

Exactly