I’m sorry if this is a depressing post, I really just need some advice. Lately I’ve been seeing so much hate going around online towards Indians, and honestly as an Indian American it’s honestly starting to get to me. I really don’t understand how so many people can just decide to hate me and people like me for stuff I haven’t done, and honestly just seeing the stereotypes of people saying we’re shitty scammers and creeps just makes me feel awful. It seems like it’s everywhere online nowadays, subs I go to for my major (computer science) are full of people being racist to Indians, one time I even saw a bit of it in this sub on that post about an Indian dude traveling a long distance to meet his love (the vast majority of yall clowned on the people being racist tho, thanks for that, that was honestly refreshing to see).

The thing is that in real life I’ve not experienced anywhere near the amount of racism I’ve seen online, but part of me is constantly worried that people are gonna judge me based off stereotypes. I want to live my life and meet more people and make more friends and just enjoy things but I don’t think I can until I resolve this mindset. Do any of yall have advice for how to deal with this?