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'Am I an Arab Terrorist Just Because I Am Brown?': Priyanka Chopra

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BY NAMRATA KARKHANIS Sunday, 28 February 2016

The star opens up about some of the prejudices she has bee a victim of
 
GettyImages-473024566Priyanka Chopra’s rise in Hollywood has been phenomenal. She is a name to be reckoned with now, but the journey wasn’t always this smooth and the actress has been a victim of racisma and other maladies that afflict people of colour.
 
Describing her experience, the actress told The Guardian about how she was called an ‘Arab Terrorist’ when one of her songs replaced Faith Hill’s for Thursday Night Football on American TV. She told The Guardian: “My song replaced one from Faith Hill, who is like the all-American girl and suddenly there was this brown girl and the NFL got so many emails from fans saying: ‘Who is this Arab terrorist?’ I got so much of it, too.”
 
“I find it really funny that people have such primitive thinking. I called them out. I said: ‘Why is every Arab person a terrorist, and why am I an Arab terrorist just because I am brown?’” She also spoke about facing racism in the US as a kid when she studied in Iowa and was often called ‘brownie’ and ‘curry’ with people telling her to go back to her own country.
 
The star who will be presenting at the Academy Awards and explained why she won’t be boycotting the event with the likes of Jada Pinkett-Smith. She said, “I am too new in this industry to be taking extreme decisions like that. When it comes to India I am very vocal about how I feel, but I am just six months old here, and honestly I want to go and see what will happen at the Oscars, especially as there is such a huge debate. I think it will be a very interesting evening.”

 

--IANS
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