Do I have any Sri Lankan mutuals?
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Kinda weird I don’t know any Sri Lankans personally I think. Or Bangladeshis or Nepalis. And only a few Pakistanis. South Asia is not very neighborly.
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I mean since moving to the US. In India I didn’t expect to since cross-border travel is very limited, not counting migrant labor/refugees. Or used to be. I think tourism to Sri Lanka has increased.
Did go to Nepal on a school trip and there are Nepalis who work in India.
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I met people from lots of different south Asian countries doing South Asian Associationstuff in college, and I would guess that’s somewhat common now?
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Do fobs like join those? At least as a grad student, abcds and fobs didn’t really mix in my case.
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I feel like I might know a couple Sri Lankans but only one that comes to mind rn is Mary Anne Mohanraj who I don't know personally but "met" at a virtual fiber festival (wool spinning, knitting) couple years ago. She has a great Patreon/website/cookbook:
serendibkitchen.com
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Oh heh, I actually do know her slightly personally from a past life when I was editing a South Asian site she contributed to
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I knew a Gurkha in college named Sunil, a cousin of the King of Nepal (not the one who was deposed, the previous one who was murdered when the crown prince went postal). He had been kicked out of three or maybe five previous better universities but as his father had acquired 1/
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