I really wanted to say something, I really did, but the words didn't exist in my head in the moment, so I just laughed along. My friend is watching a YouTube video of a white guy pretending to talk to an Indian telephone marketing operator, complete with fake Indian accent and tilak. As The fake Indian speeds up his accent to the customer a few words at the end are decipherable and the white guy replies "Sorry, please could you repeat that." Long story short the first time I saw the three minute and one second long video I just laughed along with my friend and a part of me wanted to ask them if they wanted me to translate for them another part of me was rolling my eyes inside my head. As someone who's part Indian, yes I find it really offensive when white people do an Indian accent (I don't care how good it it) and also as someone who can actually do an Indian accent (and then just shocked her friend with it) I feel like it mad...
A blogg about the experiences of a Brit who's lived in the US for more than a decade and has recently returned to the UK.