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It’s more of a practical application focused concept than a theoretical one.
couldn't find anythin about this. Can you share some resource?
In my NLU, a first year (dropper) was older than a second year. Still he was ragged by the second year and called β€œjunior”. WTF is this?

I can name the NLU and the ragger (a POS whose dad is a judge) but I guess LI will not allow the identity to be revealed.
Makes zero sense. There isnt a single white person who will get offended if you call them gora
What? The best reason for brown people to stop ragging other brown people in India is that white people abroad are expected to not be racist towards coloured people? I think someone can write a book on bad reasoning just by compiling the comments made on this website.
Colleges in the west have less of an ethnic/racial hierarchy and more of a classist hierarchy
Not really the same, I will admit, but it is still derogatory and not appropriate.
Yeah. They call it hazing. Undergrads do all sorts of things in fraternities and sororities.
"Gora" is most certainly a disparagement, deployed gratuitously and with obvious disdain. The Gujarati equivalent is deployed as a slur in the U.K., for instance. Frankly, your analysis is blinkered and false. A slur is a slur regardless of its political deployment.
Is the G word really the same though? Has the word historically been used to victimise, enslave or oppress the caucasian community anywhere in the world?
This is about the worst anti-ragging argument I have heard. There are much better reasons to stop ragging than 'gora people abroad don't do it so we shouldn't as well'
Smile wipe is a legal concept that has been borrowed from the American School of Jurisprudence.
They exist on racial lines more than a senior-junior hierarchies. Men from India/other developing countries are especially vulnerable.
If they don’t exist abroad, then why do we have it in India? How come we want to be β€œHarvard of the East” but not in this respect?