The current flaming in the Desi-Webland is a funny, slightly sarcastic and insightful article by Joel Stein in the Time magazine. The article has been slammed as insulting – to the Indian Americans, that is – and enough noise has been generated to force Time magazine and Joel Stein to update the article with their own statements.
I read it twice and personally, found it full of humour and not insulting. For eg., there is this sentence ‘There is an entire generation of white children in Edison who have nowhere to learn crime’ – is that insulting or a left handed compliment?
or this ‘probably would have been worse without the arrival of so many Indians, many of whom, fittingly for a town called Edison, are inventors and engineers’.
Yeah, he takes a wacky look at the assimilation of Indian Americans - ‘so wonderfully American that if the Statue of Liberty could shed a tear, she would. Because of the amount of cologne they wear’.
Though the reference to gods with multiple hands and an elephant nose is not charitable, it is definitely not insulting.
I can quote insults thousand times more wounding than that!
Grow up Desis - read a beautifully written article and learn to laugh at yourself.
And I love that artwork!
I read it twice and personally, found it full of humour and not insulting. For eg., there is this sentence ‘There is an entire generation of white children in Edison who have nowhere to learn crime’ – is that insulting or a left handed compliment?
or this ‘probably would have been worse without the arrival of so many Indians, many of whom, fittingly for a town called Edison, are inventors and engineers’.
Yeah, he takes a wacky look at the assimilation of Indian Americans - ‘so wonderfully American that if the Statue of Liberty could shed a tear, she would. Because of the amount of cologne they wear’.
Though the reference to gods with multiple hands and an elephant nose is not charitable, it is definitely not insulting.
I can quote insults thousand times more wounding than that!
Grow up Desis - read a beautifully written article and learn to laugh at yourself.
And I love that artwork!
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