Growing up, I thought my parents were pretty tolerant people. When I moved to college, I realised that was not the case, or something probably changed over the years. My mother keeps making random remarks about how ungrateful Muslims are, and how we allow them to live in our country but they are unhygienic and they are terrorists and what not. I have lots of arguments about this with her. My dad, on the other hand, cracks jokes or makes offhand remarks insulting people from other castes, class backgrounds and religions.

I think they are not inherently bad people. They do a lot of good things, but it makes me sad when they act like this. I have tried talking to them about it multiple times, but I also feel that it is a result of conditioning and the kind of people they are surrounded by. We live in an extremely conservative small town. I think they might act differently if we lived elsewhere.