Re: Lesson One on How To Not Be a FOB: Use of "Dear"
The desi humour that disparages FOBs is certainly motivated by a double psychic complex: a feeling of superiority in relation to the FOBs and inferiority in relation to the goras. In fact, it just plays on and keeps alive the colonial stereotypes about South Asians as being a bunch of belching, awkward morons speaking English in ridiculous accents, and eating ****eloads of curry. But it just shows that there's no authenticity to the emotional expression of desis who disparage their own culture. They are in the words of V S Naipaul "mimic men": trying to ape the gora in all his ways but never actually getting there.