>>508862702I used to like Indians when the only Indians I knew were the gas station Apu and my Indian pharmacist who grew up here, Canada used to have really strict merit-based immigration but the standards were dropped during the Trudeau era we started getting spammed with stupid, smelly, rude, rapey bumpkins almost all entirely from Punjab, India -- I dare say that the Indians I grew up with probably hate them more than I do. I've heard comments that Indians who grew up here are noticing all non-Indians tense up around them, till they start talking and it's obvious that they aren't a FOB.
There is definite' 'anti-Indian' sentiment here that's extremely well deserved, it's pattern recognition. I'm a chink and I don't begrudge people for 'sinophobia'15 years ago when so many of us was behaving so badly and multiple plagues came from China, oops. The long term fix for 'raycism' is always in-group policing, if you don't want people to hate Indians you gotta behave and police the badly behaving Indians. In the short term though, I don't think you will have a problem visiting US or even Canada as long as you behave well, are respectful of why people are wary of Indians and rise above.
Please be aware that different races do have different smells and sensitivity to smell, especially smells we aren't familiar with. Asians in general aren't very smelly because we don't sweat as much, so we are usually the ones bothered by white people smelling like cheese and Indians smelling like curry, however, I've been told that sometimes Chinese reek of mothballs, which is also toxic, which is why I stopped keeping my clothes wit mothballs even though I grew up liking the smell because it's familiar.
Staring is generally considered rude, and when a man stare at a woman it makes her feel uncomfortable, this is especially so in Asian culture but also Anglo-White ones, though with Anglo-Whites, if someone catch you staring, give a nervous smile, shrug, and then look away.