It’s a desi thing… if you see another brown face you have to stare… aur ghor se… to see if you know them, or recognise them…or if you know someone whom they look like, or you have a feeling you know someone they know, or you think they look like someone you know… especially in an non desi country…
I don’t really get stared at by desi aunties if i’m wearing western clothes, cos i look caucasian so i just blend in with the crowd here in london… but I get funny looks all the time if i’m shopping and wearing shalwar kameez, i laugh when i see the confused looks on their face
Pyaare: i feel you… my hubbys french so he’s a novelty whenever we attend functions or dinners or weddings…all the aunties just flock around him, and sometimes i want to say ‘close your mouth woman, you’re drooling’… but he just makes it worse by sweet talking them in urdu…!!! koi haal nai…
Kurripunjaban: Next time an aunty stares, i’ll wink at her… how many times have you done that… ever get a weird response???
Try being the gori in salwar kameez and see how they stare - I just give them a big smile and wave when I'm tired of playing 'watch the alien' :)
i'm guilty of this...i don't stare in a bad way. i just stare in admiration, cos a gori in shalwar kameez looks really nice...they carry it off so well ...i hope i don't sound like a perv
HAHAHAHA WOW- good idea-- will let u know how it goes- im sure ill just get a dirty look in return~ LOL
kurripunjaban- Is that wat u do ;) ?
haha it can go one of two ways, either she'll give you the biggest hacky everrrrrr or she'll giggle and then you have this mutual freaky girly understanding lol i do it :) its hilarious.
Try being the gori in salwar kameez and see how they stare - I just give them a big smile and wave when I'm tired of playing 'watch the alien' :)
LOL, I get this too, although I am 100% Pakistani I do often get mistaken for being an English revert. It makes me feel really uncomfortable, especially when strange ppl stop to talk to me or go past remarking amongst themselves in urdu about me thinking I don't understand them.
i'm guilty of this...i don't stare in a bad way. i just stare in admiration, cos a gori in shalwar kameez looks really nice...they carry it off so well ...i hope i don't sound like a perv
LOL, no, you don't sound pervy.... when we were first married, there weren't many desi/gori couples at the time, and the aunties used to REALLY stare... a few asked my husband why he had a gori girlfriend.