Stereotypes of Indians in Foreign Films and TV

Brut India

Critics excoriated this movie for its Indian stereotypes. But American movies and television have long been filled with cliches. #ApusAccent

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00:00What is that head wiggle that Indians do?

00:03Please don't send me back to India, it's so crowded.

00:30It's like the whole country is one endless comic con, except everybody's wearing the same costume.

00:35No ring I see, so you are only arranged to be married.

00:43Servile.

00:44Devious.

00:45Goofy.

00:46Saying I love you is not the words I want to hear from you.

01:03It's a tidal wave coming from the east.

01:06It's gigantic.

01:07It never got picked up 8 years ago.

01:10Well it never can.

01:12Goodbye my friend.

01:16I don't mean anything culturally insensitive.

01:22Sorry.

01:23And by sorry I mean the apology.

01:26Not the giant scarf you wear like a dress.

01:29I was asked to not be a part of a movie because I was too ethnic.

01:48I was too ethnic for the part and it was a mainstream American part.

02:00It is the absolute truth.

02:03I was told to be taking a number 27 omnibus and I complied.

02:08But it went in a backward direction.

02:11No I think you meant it was going the other way.

02:13That is the gist of what I am saying.

02:15A thousand apologies.

02:17It's not like those characters are given any degree of humanity.

02:20They don't have a certain degree of freedom, they don't have the same level of depth.

02:30Black lady.

02:36Chinese man.

02:40Hey, hey, hey.

02:43Don't yell out people's ethnicities.

02:48Anything on a plane is a weapon to a Muslim.

02:50Alright?

02:51The corner of a Dorito chip can slice a neck.

02:55Alright?

02:56You think that seat cushion is a flotation device?

02:57You are wrong.

02:58That is a smothering pillow.

03:00You see a SkyMall, I see a paper cut katana.

03:07I have to tell you something.

03:08I have been dating this girl.

03:10She's white.

03:11A white girl?

03:12Yeah, you can't look like you and yell white girl.

03:14It's okay.

03:15We hate terrorists.

03:19It's funny.

03:20I know India is this huge country but to me it's just the train.

03:25Farm town.

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