Indian-origin man confronts Canadian women over racist outburst. See what happened next

A man of Indian origin, living in Canada, recently encountered a racist outburst from an elderly native woman. Ashwin Annamalai shared his experience through a social media post. The incident shed light on the “disturbing rise in hatred” against Indians in recent times across Canada. Annamalai was out for a walk in Waterloo, Ontario, when the old lady allegedly “flipped at him and spewed hate.” The woman “wrongly assumed” he was Indian. Annamalai has lived in Canada for six years and has already acquired citizenship.

The man did his best to get the woman to accept him as Canadian, but she wasn’t very convinced. “When I challenged her very politely, she went on her racist rants. She is also upset because there are black people in the community. She also accuses me of not speaking English and that I need to just leave,” wrote Annamalai on X (formerly Twitter).

The post accompanied a video where the woman was seen aggressively asking Annamalai to “come back” to her house. “You’re not Canadian. I’m being aggressive with you because a lot of Indians are in Canada and I want you to come back. Your parents aren’t from Canada, your grandparents aren’t from here,” she shouted.

Later, Annamalai asked the anonymous woman if she spoke French, another official language of Canada. She, however, ignored the matter and continued to say in English: “Come back. Go back to India.”

“This is not an isolated incident. These hate-filled encounters have been happening regularly since the beginning of the year, and people seem to be becoming more emboldened,” Annamalai wrote in her X post.

“Harassing well-meaning Canadians on the streets and blaming them for no rhyme or reason is not the solution to the challenges we face. We as a community can definitely do a lot better than blaming each other and come together to find solutions to the problems that plague us all,” he added.

Indians staying in Canada have frequently faced racial insults since relations between the two countries deteriorated. “I have never faced the difficulties that international students face today. This is not the Canada I came to,” Annamali revealed to the Waterloo Region Record last month. He moved to the country in 2018 as an international student.