I am a desi and like other desis I hate my fellow people too and love to mess around with them. In the past, I have read numerous jokes and funny comments about how desi people react to the sudden cultural change. Here are my two cents. I present some of the things that no one has touched before. A distinct, yet not so unexpected behavior.
1. Desis love to put their birthday pics on public display on orkut/facebook with the cake smudged on their faces and coke bottle in their hands. They think its funny, i think its gay.
2. Desis would facebook msg/scrap each other asking nothing but, "hey man,whats up ". For them the word "dude" and "man" are interchangebale.
3. Desi's house entrance has a corner right behind the door where all the shoes and slippers are kept. They are not organized or anything, but just kept.
4. Desi's album will always consist of pics named "me in front of my car" with "his" car apparently being a lamborghini or an audi. I mean can you even spell that correctly ? or did you know what that was before you came to north america ?
5. Their albums would definitely have some photographs on the beach with ladies in their swim wear in the background. The comments on the pics would be " sahi hai be, aish kar raha hai"
6. Desis change their status message on gmail/facebook every minute. They keep you updated even if they are taking their shit out. "Rajesh Koothrapalli is finding it hard after the spicy and oily chicken biryani"
7. Desis would know all the torrent download webpages. They would also keep a track of all the free hindi/tamil/telgu movie online streaming website.
8. Desis would always use their funny simpson's like accent all the time with each other but as soon as an american is around, every desi starts sounding even more funny.
9. Desis always stare even at women in tank tops. Its their fantasy of a hot female.
10. Desis call every american a racist without realizing the fact that its him who is keeping away himself.
11. No matter you get a rice bag for 5$ a bag, there would be a desi who will always know a cheaper place.
12. Desis never look for expiry date on products. They just look at the price and start yelling if its cheap as if they found kryptonite in the middle of Times Square.
13. Desi's favorite attire is a full sleeved shirt with checks on it, a crisp pair of pants and leather black shoes. He is fairly consistent with his clothing. He wears the same set of clothes in the gym, on the tennis courts or even in a conference, perhaps in a pool too !! ( I hope not)
14. More than 99% of desis think "stud" is an acronym for studious. ya rite !!
15. Free food and free tshirts are things that sweeps a desi off his feet. A desi Computer Science graduate student wouldnt even mind going to a conference at the Anthropology Department, just coz the flier said in the end "Free Pizza and Soda Pop".
16. Desis think americans have no culture, eating hot dogs and hams is not culture.
17. Picture naming convention Desis adopt :
(a) When there are 3 or more friends on a beach or any other scenic place, the name that picture bears is always "Dil Chahta Hai"
(b) Pictures at an auto show are always called "Me and my car" or "Me and my bike" without realizing that purchasing that car/bike might even cost him the clothes he is wearing.
(c) ....(need some more pointers on this one)
18. A desi would cover all the places on the US map from Niagara to Texas, from DC to LA. Obama might not have travelled that much for his election campaign.
19. 8 people in a 2 bed room apartment or 10 in a 3 bed room apartment is a very common scene, after all living room is one more big bedroom that can house 4 people.
20. They would definitely call me a pseudo american after reading all this.
I will keep editing this list. My target is 100 pointers !
no offense !!
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