Originally Posted by bluesummer
He has a lot of disdain for westernized Indians who have forgotten their culture, but also disdain for Indians born in India who refuse to accept any part of western culture (especially if they're living in it). Lucky me, I get the best of both worlds.
Wow you sure look enthused about that.
Anyway, one of my cousins (he's 30 somethin') has a strong sense of "asian identity".
This one time he got drunk while we were at a chinese banquet in chinatown, and started preachin' to all us younger crowd (ages varying between 15 and 20) about how we should learn the language, learn how to cook the food and all that jazz that comes with culture. Now it wasn't the first time I heard this stuff and I was already tired of it when he singled me out, that I was the "exception" cause I'm only half.
At first I was like "Yeah, that's right, I'm the exception", but then I started thinkin' about it, and it really got me down.
Since my teenage years my relationship with that side of the family has waned significantly. I definitely set myself apart from them, but when he said that, it made me feel like I was now completely out of place, as if it was no logner just me that felt that way, but they felt that way too.
I still resent the ****ers to this day.