Damn, people beat me to Heroes's Mohinder and Weeds's Sanjay. Clearly, I do not spend enough time on LJ obsessively refreshing my flist.
Only fandom could have miscegenation wank. SERIOUSLY, guys?
I found this post really interesting, because it's not something I would have guessed--this, mostly:
and I've never found another Indian person who makes friends in the haphazard, shared-geeky-interest way that I do, and it's horrible to say, but I've never met another Indian woman who's at all politically aware, nor one who's a feminist, nor who's self-consciously trying to find her cultural identity.
Because actually all of the Indian girls/women I knew growing up* were all of those things. And also at least mildly fannishly inclined. Although, given that most of the girls that I knew growing up--of any cultural background--could be described that way, I suppose it wasn't a representative sample anyway. But you're right: at least in online fandom, I have encountered very few Indian people.
*I say this in the past tense because once I left for college, I was dropped in whiter-than-white-bread rural Ohio, at a school that, like most small private liberal-arts schools, really struggles with diversity. It still kind of freaks me out, because I grew up in groups where, as someone of WASP/Irish Catholic background, I was usually in the minority. I am not okay with this sudden influx of cultural guilt!
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Only fandom could have miscegenation wank. SERIOUSLY, guys?
I found this post really interesting, because it's not something I would have guessed--this, mostly:
and I've never found another Indian person who makes friends in the haphazard, shared-geeky-interest way that I do, and it's horrible to say, but I've never met another Indian woman who's at all politically aware, nor one who's a feminist, nor who's self-consciously trying to find her cultural identity.
Because actually all of the Indian girls/women I knew growing up* were all of those things. And also at least mildly fannishly inclined. Although, given that most of the girls that I knew growing up--of any cultural background--could be described that way, I suppose it wasn't a representative sample anyway. But you're right: at least in online fandom, I have encountered very few Indian people.
*I say this in the past tense because once I left for college, I was dropped in whiter-than-white-bread rural Ohio, at a school that, like most small private liberal-arts schools, really struggles with diversity. It still kind of freaks me out, because I grew up in groups where, as someone of WASP/Irish Catholic background, I was usually in the minority. I am not okay with this sudden influx of cultural guilt!
(PS: AHHHH, more S&A fic? You are a machine.)