Comments on: Why the Diaspora is not as interesting to me https://www.brownpundits.com/2019/06/17/why-the-diaspora-is-not-as-interesting-to-me/ A discussion of all things Brown.. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:37:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: TGGP https://www.brownpundits.com/2019/06/17/why-the-diaspora-is-not-as-interesting-to-me/#comment-39257 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 22:42:48 +0000 https://www.brownpundits.com/?p=10435#comment-39257 If an Indian-American having an arranged marriage is interesting enough, how about one who got married against the wishes of his parents… to his cousin.

]]> By: Razib Khan https://www.brownpundits.com/2019/06/17/why-the-diaspora-is-not-as-interesting-to-me/#comment-39254 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 22:15:58 +0000 https://www.brownpundits.com/?p=10435#comment-39254 In reply to Curious.

a lot of truth to this.

otoh, things have changed a lot since i was a kid. i once met a guy who assumed i was pakistani by my name (white, jewish), and when i said “i’m bangladeshi” he said “oh, you’re tall for a bangladeshi” (which is true).

]]> By: Curious https://www.brownpundits.com/2019/06/17/why-the-diaspora-is-not-as-interesting-to-me/#comment-39253 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 22:09:26 +0000 https://www.brownpundits.com/?p=10435#comment-39253 What’s annoying to me is that some Indian folks in amreeka (including in my friends and family) think that white folks think of them as special brown, not dirty brown like Hispanic or dirty dirty black.

We are special onlee
We are clever onlee
Gora loges prefer us to others onlee
We are not muslims onlee
Look we have won spelling bee onlee…

So far in my interactions with amreeki goras, very few can tell the difference between deep brown and light brown or Hindu and Muslim for that matter.

]]> By: AnAn https://www.brownpundits.com/2019/06/17/why-the-diaspora-is-not-as-interesting-to-me/#comment-39250 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 21:04:33 +0000 https://www.brownpundits.com/?p=10435#comment-39250 Loved this piece Razib.

I feel like a person of the world and don’t care much for national boundaries. {Yup me be evil globalist.} I like people. All people from all cultures. Homo Sapien Modern are connected with each other. Cultures around the world are connected with each other.

Some of my favorite Hindus are caucasian. They understand and experience eastern culture (including deep meditation) more than 99.99% of Deshis.

]]> By: crilk https://www.brownpundits.com/2019/06/17/why-the-diaspora-is-not-as-interesting-to-me/#comment-39249 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 20:50:37 +0000 https://www.brownpundits.com/?p=10435#comment-39249 Indian Americans are uninteresting because they’re mostly suburban, and suburbanites are as a general rule not very interesting.

]]> By: girmit https://www.brownpundits.com/2019/06/17/why-the-diaspora-is-not-as-interesting-to-me/#comment-39194 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 07:20:57 +0000 https://www.brownpundits.com/?p=10435#comment-39194 In reply to H.M. Brough.

As a diasporan, have to agree. Particularly when we take a limited interest in the cultural history of the countries of our upbringing, and without a deep contextual understanding of or feeling for either the ancestral land or former. End up with a really banal cosmopolitanism.

]]> By: H.M. Brough https://www.brownpundits.com/2019/06/17/why-the-diaspora-is-not-as-interesting-to-me/#comment-39161 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:16:03 +0000 https://www.brownpundits.com/?p=10435#comment-39161 I have to agree with Razib…*IF* Indian Diasporans are interesting, they are interesting in spite of their backgrounds, not because of them. They are otherwise basically Jews with a darker paint job, but less interested in life outside making money and getting their Lexuses and suburban McMansions…which makes them much less interesting than Jews hahaha.

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