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I disagree with your assessment.Delhi is not exactly and wholly the real racist.
The thing is, this 'racist' crowd is usually the low IQ pre-independence migrants who upon arriving, got housing and lands for free, traded for decades in selling and buying houses and got rich. Now their generations have money but not the brains or education to know about our country's beautiful diversity and places and people.
SO these morons think that they own everything in Delhi. Now their good for nothing college-age kids have money to spend and enjoy materially but cannot get into a decent college while people from NE are either getting in through government allotment or through sheer hardwork and commitment. Many such jokers cannot digest others succeeding and hence they call names and attack.
Many times these hot headed idiots get beaten up in response too.
Delhi is no longer any one ethnicity's dominance. Migration has ensured people of all regions and walks of life call Delhi home.
Even hardworking students who enter DU for example, call the North Easterners' chinkis or prefer to not hang out with them. Blaming ignorance and/or lack of competence(hardwork or intelligence) is factually incorrect as being the major factor of racism. It is a minor factor.
Most of the times, the cause of racism is seeing some people as 'others' because they don't fit in the definition(looks/language/behaviour) of 'us'.
While our text books hound us since our birth about 'unity in diversity', the reality is that for most people until and unless they see this 'diversity' when they are growing up, they are unlikely to suddenly accept the different people as 'us'.
In that sense there are only 2 real solutions to this -
1. Education
2. Migration
I'd rate migration as even more important than education. When you see the ordinary kid in Delhi growing up with some kids from North East (either ethnically but born in Delhi or migrated) in their school or neighbourhood you will see a life long change in their behaviour.
And that is what has started happening now. The constant trickle of migration from North East is acquiring critical mass in that now kids are finding someone of North East background sometime during their school days (in either school or neighbourhood).
Its similar for South Indians. You find a lot of South Indians in Delhi or Ahmedabad , etc with their kids growing up there.
That is what is the real change.
Caveat - this phenomenon of acceptance and intermarriage is almost exclusively in the upper-middle class or upper class.
But this initself is a big change from say 2 decades ago when the upper or upper-middle class of people of their respective regions had a superiority notion about their own vis-a-vis 'others' from other regions of India.
But since the middle and lower classes follow the uppers with a lag period of a generation. It means really good news for our kids.
This has happened because of changing nature of jobs. A young engineer studying in Delhi gets a job in Bangalore or Hyderabad or a boy from a village near Hyderabad is working in Gurgaon and settles there. The middle class now migrates across India lot because of jobs and education.
This was hardly there two decades ago.
This is the result of jobs and education becoming dynamic and distributed across India in its linkages.