1.
Calling a drink "chai tea" is like us calling steak "beef meat".
2.
Naan is another word for bread – so "naan bread" means bread bread.
3.
You're spelling "Gandhi" wrong.
4.
Nobody speaks Hindu. Just like nobody speaks Christian or Muslim or Buddhist.
5.
And speaking of speaking, English is one of our official languages – no need to act so shocked if you hear us speaking impeccably.
6.
We don't all own convenience stores and work at call centers.
7.
Cricket isn't a weird, made-up version of baseball.
8.
Indian food isn't all curry and nothing else.
9.
And there's no such thing as chicken tikki masala.
10.
India isn't dirty, smelly, and always crowded.
12.
We aren't all math and science nerds – we come from thousands of years of art, comedy, and literature.
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India isn't a technologically ignorant and underdeveloped world.
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And culturally, we're modern as HELLLLL.
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We don't all look the same.
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And no: We aren't an exotic, irrelevant, ignorable dot. We're a badass magic land on the verge of being a superpower.
Thank you, come again ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
