1. I'll add one thing to the great Apu debate: until recently I was also an Desi who didn't mind Apu. I've changed, largely because I've started listening to people younger than me. https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/984418135632760832 …
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5. As an adult, The Simpsons was something in background to me. For younger Desi in school, Apu was a taunt they heard in school. Big difference.
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6. If I wanted to, I could easily write one of those anti-PC articles: "Hey, I was born in India, I don't mind Apu." But I won't because I'm not an asshole and I'm willing to listen to people younger than me.
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7. There's a larger lesson in this: in these PC controversies it's important not to be knee-jerk and to listen to people who have different experience of a work of art than you -- to figure out where it comes from.
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I think the caricature stings more more Indians in entertainment, most of us who went on to be doctors, lawyers, accountants, etc left that sting in HS. Folks like Hari still deal with representation issues on the day 2 day in their careers.
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I think that's true, but let me spin it: I think the younger generation has more Indian characters to look up. And in that way, I am sure there are far, far better examples than Apu now than before. But again, to me, that doesn't change that Apu was and is largely admirable.
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