I feel like Americans have this image of us just busting out into song and dance in the middle of the railway station on a day to day basis.
The Simpsons
Jiminy Cricket! Expired ham.
This is incredibly racist.
Still running grocery stores?
Hindu store or not, he’s not having ham in his shop.
Ham in an Indian store does not sell. I don’t know where you guys got this.
Who was the first Indian to go to America because I have a major issue with that guy? He has (bleep) up Indian accents for everybody.
Everyone on the planet thinks that all Indians sound like Apu. We don’t.
I will talk the rest of the video like this, I think you will understand it and like it even more.
Major Lazer & DJ Snake Featuring MO “Lean On”
I like how colorful everything is because that’s what India is, right?
That’s not even an Indian dance.
Yeah. That is nothing like how we dance.
Oh, this is how we dance. Right?
I like it.
This is normal.
Palaces and poor people. Yes, that is exactly what India comprises of.
This is incidentally how all of our weddings look.
Except that there are about five times the number of people.
Yeah.
And food everywhere.
And less horses.
The Big Bang Theory
Is that true?
Why is Raj such a loser?
Yeah, it’s four geeks and somehow the Indian is still the biggest loser.
In a lot of ways, this is true since most of the guys who go abroad from India are engineers.
Have Indian men ever been shown in favorable light on any western show? I can’t recall a single one of them.
Why do we have to settle for this?
All Indian men, they’re always sleazy and can’t hit it off with women. Look at me, man, do you think I can’t hit it off with women?
Slumdog Millionaire
It’s surprisingly empty.
Indian planes don’t stop for this long. You’re either on, or you’re dead.
This is luxury for us.
There is airport police at the station, you cannot just grab a girl and run away like that.
I totally get why they’re showing this, because it’s a totally realistic depiction of what happens everyday at the station.
No that’s not. Those don’t give a (bleep).
Does this guy really think he can take on five goons on his own? No one that I know does that, they call their own boys first.
Final Thoughts
I think what happens when people try and portray cultures that they don’t understand in the media, is that they end up relying on stereotypes.
We are a country of 1.2 billion people.
A lot of us are really cool people.
Maybe you should come down to India and we’ll give you a tutorial of what Indians are really like.
We’re not selling you a Twinkie.
Would you like to have a McDonald’s burger?
No.
