Monday, April 21, 2008

Brown Guy Named Russell Peters...

I don't know if you people have heard about him! He is a stand-up comedian from Canada but of Indian origin. My friend from Philippines sent me a youtube link for a show of this Peters guy. She said "I just love him. He is really funny. He has got an Indian accent!".
I thought "Yeah, right! Here we go again. 'Indian accent???' what do you mean by that? Each country has a way of speaking English. the Americans sound funny to the rest of the world too!"
Anyway I saw the show and let me warn the young ones reading this post:

"UNLESS YOU ARE USED TO HEARING VULGAR WORDS EVERY 2 MINUTES AND REALLY DON'T TAKE RACISM TO HEART, PROCEED WITH WATCHING THE SHOW!"



He starts of with telling us how Asians are always mistaken as the Chinese. That is completely true, but he goes on to say that the Indians are people who speak English in a funny way! HOLD IT RIGHT THERE! And so do you think we are going to accept it and laugh about it? NO! Here is my point of view, there is the American accent, the British accent and all other sorts but when we Indians speak English it is not the Indian accent but "English sounding funny"... That is so biased!

Actually we Indians are the best at English. An average kid from a good school in India is way better at English than the same from the US. And who are the Americans to speak about English? They change the language as they want it to be! they can't get themselves to say "colour" so it becomes "color"! and "realise" becomes "realize" and all such words that they find tough are changed to suit their convenience and BINGO... that becomes English (US) !

Peters goes on to talk about terrorism and that is really funny! He really is very good in this!
True terrorists aren't Indians and we don't hate the Americans. As he rightly says, "Indians just hate each other!" Its really a sort of a wakeup call for us i would say!

Then he talks about the funny Indian names. I'll give you funny Mr.Peters! What the Americans think funny is belief in God. What we think is funny is the way the rest of the world goes about with (n+1) number of relationships. Its truly amazing the way Americans and the Europeans change their partners like changing clothes! Western culture? UGH!

And when Russell Peters talks about "India has no history", I felt like murdering him! HELLO!!!
India has history that dates back to more than 4000 years. And we were probably doing advanced astronomy when you were trying to figure out how to make fire!

I don't want to go ahead further with this. Hope i did not sound like a racist in the process. Making fun of a person just because of his skin colour is HORRID, to say the least! I don't believe in that.