I had this published on ABCDlady a couple of years ago and thought I might as well repost it for the holidays. A Multicultural Holiday It was a lazy December, and we didn’t feel like pulling out the Christmas tree and spending all day decorating it. My mom insisted we have something though—it was tradition. [...]
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TamilMatrimony
Filter by: Resident status (work permit, student visa, citizen, temporary visa) Physical status (normal, physically challenged) Complexion (fair, very fair, wheatish, wheatish brown, dark) Profile created by (self, parents, siblings, relatives, friends) Occupation… nonprofit is not an option. To humour certain family members who think TamilMatrimony.com would be an appropriate online “dating” site for me, [...]
Posted by Shubha on December 11, 2011
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Indians and other Asians in America
To avoid the wrath of Kedar, I’m posting an article that he sent me a while back. I mean, it is very interesting and I would post it wrath or none! The article summarizes some interesting stats about the 3.2 million Indians living in America, compared to other Asians. So I made some graphs! The [...]
Posted by Shubha on November 26, 2011
http://shubhabala.com/archives/1547
Samosapedia
Best site of the day. http://www.samosapedia.com/ The definitive guide to Indian English. For example, did you know that Rakhi (the bracelet that sisters tie on their brother’s hand for the holiday Raksha Bandhan) is apparently also used for girls to KLPD “would-be suitors?” And now you’re probably wondering what KLPD even means. Look it up [...]
Posted by Shubha on August 21, 2011
http://shubhabala.com/archives/1421
Data on immigrants and Indians in Minneapolis (compared to New York)
Canadian Laura (a regular blog feature now) and I were talking about our respective experiences immigrating to the US. Mainly how we would’ve thought Minnesota was really used to Canadians, but judging by the difficulties in customs, visas, taxes, and opening bank accounts, it appears we are the first Canadians to ever move here. Meanwhile [...]
Posted by Shubha on April 20, 2011
http://shubhabala.com/archives/1165
Equal opportunity porn
The other day I watched, for educational purposes only, Skins on MTV. This is the show that’s been under a lot of controversy for basically being underage porn. It takes place in a high school and the kids portray “normal kids problems”. In the episode I saw, some blonde teacher (who from what I could [...]
Posted by Shubha on March 17, 2011
http://shubhabala.com/archives/1051
Google autofill in India
Excessively bored I decided to try more google autofills from different country’s google sites. In India I typed “Why do Indians…” but that wasn’t exciting, although it was confusing. Apparently Indians want to know why they celebrate Divali, and stare a lot. But I loved the autocorrect for “Why do Americans…”
Posted by Shubha on March 15, 2011
http://shubhabala.com/archives/1047
Stupid kinky multiculturalism.
Gopal Krishna, apparently the Vice-President of the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition, when introducing the potential 2012 Republican Presidential candidates. … I’m mostly insulted by his awful hair. It makes us all look bad.
Posted by Shubha on March 14, 2011
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How to make Chai
In honor of President’s Day, I decided to explain how to make chai, since a few people have recently asked me. First chai is Hindi for tea (in case you didn’t know..). I was at a tea tasting recently where I learned that chai‘s etymology is Chinese. Basically all languages either call tea some variation [...]
Posted by Shubha on February 21, 2011
http://shubhabala.com/archives/1013
Diversity in news
I’ve been recently occupying a lot of my brain thinking about diversity in the news – what is it’s purpose and goal, and how do you achieve it? (I’m specifically referring to ethnic diversity) I, of course, think about ethnic diversity all the time. Diversity in London, in Toronto, New York, and now, excitedly, Minnesota. [...]
Posted by Shubha on February 7, 2011
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