Anusha Dandekar speaks on racism she faced in Australia; Says, “I was called Dark Chocolate”

Anusha Dandekar that has launched her beauty product for all skin colours spoke about facing racism in Australia. The actress shared her disheartful incident been targeted for her brown skin tone during her stay in Australia.

In an media interview, Anusha said, “I’ve gone through my share of bullying in Australia as I grew up there. Everybody thinks ‘Oh, what do you know about being brown?’ In Australia, I was brown, very brown. I would be called dark milk chocolate or Chocolate Milk. I was often teased like that when I was younger.”

She futher said she used to run to her dad whenever someone would call her brown during her school times and he was the only person that didn’t see difference in the colour. 

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