" I grew up with bhotes and even little bhote children have that fed into them by their angry parents" I don't think you were bullied because you were bahun. It has to do with the fact that bahun children are shorter before they really hit puberty. That is, at about 15-16 we have still not reached our maximum height. On the other hand, Gurungs, Rais, etc are much taller than we are before puberty, but they don't seem to grow much at 15-16, but we do. So by the time we're in the 10th grade, all the tall ones in class are bahuns, while the originally tall ones--Gurungs, Rais, etc--are the shortest in the class. I specifically remember that bullying seemed to stop once the short people start getting taller. Now, I'm nowhere saying that all Gurungs and Rais bully people. Those who do are just but a few. So of course bullying is usually done by big people on little people--those who can be picked easily. If you're bigger and taller than the rest of your classmates, most people are not going to slap you around. It has nothing to do with racism, as you are insinuating. Again, as I said, don't paint all "bhotes" with a broad brush just because of your encounter with a few bad apples.