Wednesday, June 11, 2008

American Indian


I guess, by now you guys know what i am going to say about .. About American Indians, or Indians living in America

This happened sometime a I had a chance of meeting with my long lost college friend, in a temple. With him was his sister, who happened to have studied in US for just about a year or two, in some obscure University in some part of US, as u know they say it is in west coast, east coast and something which we can just imagine, and has come down to India to get married to a doctor here and again fly back to US.

So as I and my friend continues talking about our college days and parallelly talking with her sister as well, I happen to tell her that even I have siblings in US.

So, you might have guess the next question, she asked "Oh, where in US?", for this i replied with the place where siblings are put up, till now she was speaking in proper Kannada and now here goes she suddenly in an full 'put-up American accent' about where was living and visited a few places in US and how far are the places I just told them from the place she was or visited. It was like this "Oh, it comes in east 'cost' ( coast was pronounced as cost), while i wazzin in north wyest ( West pronounced that way )", or something as I hardly cared for what she said when i came to know she was putting a false accent.

I could easily find out that she was just putting up an unnatural accent, just to prove that even she was in US for quite some time now, and knows quite about that country ... !!

Now what was need to show off her unnatural accent that too for me, when I hardly care about her educational background or the country she studied and care a lot about how people for no good reason be aberrant when they want to show off her academic background, and boast themselves about their abroad stints/life?

All I said when she said that is "Oh, is it, Good. Anyway Happy married life" and just moved from the place after saying a "Bye maga, sigana, online ping maadtheeni" in perfect Bangalore accent and moved ahead.

Guess she must have understood that if something was totally out of place there, it was her false accent.
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1 comment:

Unknown said...

Dude.. you rock!
After reading your blog, here is what I would have done (if I was in your place)Start humming...

"Saare Jahan se achcha.. Hindustan Hamara...Hum bulbulein hai us ki ye gulistaan hamara"

Or switch the conversation topic to the world renowned universities like..IIT, IISc or even BITS and NIT.
Or change the topic to the worlds' first university...Nalanda and Takshila university.

Last but not least, do something to remind her that she is also an Indian!