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i barely see anyone but indian people talking about how disrespectful and unfunny this whole scene was and that’s not okay. @GMMTV seems to think that making a mockery out of my culture is humour. wearing turbans, kurta, beards, making hand gestures mocking traditional dances +
and the punjabi music in the background- it’s all an obvious and offensive mockery of sikh people. im not sikh, but a lot of my family has punjabi roots and i’m really disappointed. indian culture as a whole has been taken as a joke for far too long. +
it’s fucking disrespectful and hurtful as hell, to be sitting at home watching a show i love make a joke out of my country and my people. if you think i’m being dramatic over a funny little moment, ask yourself why you think what he’s doing here is funny. what’s funny about it? +
the way he moves his hands? the turban? the song? yes, its hilarious how people from other cultures don’t act like you isnt it? haha, look it’s like he’s one of those weird and abnormal indians who eat curry and wear turbans! real funny. this is misrepresentation and it spreads +
harmful stereotypes about punjabi and sikh people. our culture isn’t a joke. i was actually enjoying futs until this totally uncalled for moment. i wanted to ignore it, but this shit happens to us way too often and it’s always brushed under the carpet because people DO +
think our culture is a joke. this whole scene would have remained the same without duean and his friends dressing up like this. in fact, they literally showed us a scene before where they were planning this and everything was the same except the costumes. so why did +
they feel the need to add that? what did it add to the plot? do i need to grab a pen and edit your fucking scripts for you? its so stupid how it would have literally changed nothing- except me and other indian fans would not be feeling so upset right now at how a show we love +
could propagate such harmful and racist stereotypes for the sake of a ridiculous unfunny gag. stereotyping other asian cultures (specially south asia) is common in asia, but that doesn’t mean it’s okay. it’s something really harmful which has been normalised admit it or not. +
also, if you’re going to bring up how some indian people in the comments thought it was funny, don’t bother. those people are mostly really young girls who think this is representation. they’re misguided, and even if they don’t think it’s disrespectful, a lot of us DO. so if +
you’re one of them, don’t speak over the people who were genuinely hurt by this. it’s not about you personally. if its negatively impacted someone, even just one person, then something ought to be done about it. @GMMTV please take down that part, or issue an apology, or please +
at least acknowledge just how shitty it is that a teenager in another country had to write a whole essay trying to explain to a company full of grown ass people why treating her country and her culture like a joke isn’t fucking funny. do better. educate yourselves.
my angry rant aside, here’s a way to help. please read this thread and help out. https://twitter.com/iiovepond/status/1388214558796533765
hi guys, thank you all for sharing this thread and taking time to listen. just wanted to add that the song in the background was actually hindi not punjabi, and completely unrelated to the scene as well. all of this is especially bad in these times bc as a lot of you might know
india is going through a major covid crisis right now. please help share resources and please donate if you can. thank you https://twitter.com/colinsmeow/status/1386379158792589315
