The Stereotypes

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OK, not trying to offend anyone here...ok, I'm lying, I'm trying to offend everyone, but equally.

What are some of the stereotypes of desis (both abcd and fob) in this vunderful Amaaarka? Not just generally, but specifics? Part of the reason cheap films like ABCD or American Desi strike a funnybone with us is that they make fun of the stereotypes of the different kinds of desis - and we eat it up cos we've all met people like every character in those movies.

Like, the uber-FOB TA who brings lunch in a tiffin, wears a read dot on his forehead, wears Bata chappal even in the cold, smells of curry, is skinny as hell and who's black as hell and you think he's black until he opens his mouth, at which time the heaviest desi accent you've ever heard in your life comes out....etc etc.

Or, how about the gorified abcd girl who wishes she was a blonde, and so dyes her hair, but it looks unnatural cos her features are still desi, pretends that she can't understand Urdu and hates that she does, always hangs around white girls, and can't stand spicy food...

aight ya'll, let's get this one rollin'...

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aside from the one about being loud, i dunno too many sterotypes about panjabis. i do know y'all just WISH you could be as cool as us hyderabadis and as spicy as our beghara bhagaan. ;)

HAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA that is too funny

awww... bechara! a name like that = a life rife with torment. lol

i knew a punjabi guy named Fakhir whose last name was Butt...in class the professors used to call his name out like this : "Butt Fakhir"...if thats not comedy i dont know what is..lol

Panjabis don't have any stereotypes in my community because there are so many of them. Pathans and Memons get cracked on by the Panjabis so I guess as a butt of the joke Memon I'll say, Panjabis crack on me.... ::sniffles:: they're so mean to me!

yeah, they just jealous...

people usually hold a lot of resentment against the panjabis because of the power that they historically held

loud

hmmm... do sardars count as panjabi stereotypes? they are considered the blondes of south asia

yeah, what do ya'll think of punjabis?

hahaha... nice description aan. disturbingly vivid in my mind. lol.

haha FS..i totally visualized a guy in a floral pimp shirt...first three buttons left open to reveal a bushel of curly black chest hair...big, thick gold chain with even bigger ALLAH locket lost in the hair...tight faded jeans...hair greased back with top of the line bio amla oil...shades half way down his nose so he can check out all passing ladies in natural light...showered with Old Spice..cigarette behind left ear...long pinky nail on right hand....watching you pass by and say "oye kuriya..how YOU doin"...lol

So Tanveer did they catch you with the small packet of coke in your .... nasal cavity or did you get away with it...? :P

I don't know about anyone else's college but at my school we have students who work in the computer lab. It just so happens that the people who work in the computer labs are total fobs. But my school isn't racist; the Fobs come from Pakistan, Iran & Bangladesh.

LOL Were you a part of this, or were they just your senior dissertation project?

ok, maybe this isn't as universal as some, but in college i noticed the stereotype of the gujarati abcd crowd. they all hang out with each other ALL the time freshman year. sophomore year they all move off campus to the same apartment complex. by junior year, they're all dating each other. you could write down the guys names in one column, the girls in another, and predict who was gonna go out with whom by seeing the names that hadn't been matched up yet. then senior year they all disband, because melrose-place type politics breaks the group up. i tell you its pathetic.

lol @ "prominent limb length discrepancy" hehe.... what about the FOB brothers who try to take on the ABCD persona (or their perception of it), but fail miserably. you know the cheesy lines, going after any woman who breathes and has two legs, coming on stronger to the ladies than their mock-designer cologne.

What about the ABCD's that think they're black, with their jeans hanging around their bottom and walking as if they have somewhat of a prominent limb length discrepancy! :)

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