Stuff Brown People Like – #1 What Are Brown People?
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Kids, Curry Bear is starting a new segment on his blog called “Stuff Brown People Like”. One of our readers (lets call him Matrixmaster) sent us a link to a blog titled Stuff White People Like. I read the blog and I gots to say, it is one of the most unique blogs out there and the writing is simply fantastic. I fell in love with it and decided to plagiar…um…I mean, “create” one for the brown people. The writer of Stuff White People Like gave us his blessings to start our own variation of his famous blog. I guess you can say CurryBear.com is like a Bollywood movie – they both steal ideas from white people. The only difference is that Curry Bear actually asks for permission. I hope some of you take the time and read the Stuff White People Like blog.
I think the first thing we need to do is establish the definition of “brown” people. Brown people for our purpose refers to South Asians. We’re not talking about Mexicans, Latinos, Cubans or anybody from a South American nation. Yes, they’re also brown people, but they are often referred to as Latinos or Mexicans. I’m sure someone is already in the process of creating a Stuff Latino People Like website. No one has a copyright on the term “brown people” but Curry Bear is already talking to his lawyer David Lerkowitz to get that term trademarked. If all goes well, Curry Bear will own the term “brown people” the way Nike owns the swoosh.
Now there are a few South Asian countries, but which ones fall under the “brown” department? To me, South Asians fall under 5 categories: Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans and Nepalis. As some of you may already know, brown people from any of these countries are referred to as “Desi” people. To my non-brown readers who don’t know a word of Hindi, “Desi” is the term used to refer to a person who is from any of the aforementioned countries. Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis are abundant in this country. Sri Lankans are rare but they do exist. Nepali people are like the desi leprechauns. If you ever find a Nepali person, give them a hug.
I can’t forget about our distant brown cousins in the Western Hemisphere. We have to include Trinis, Guyanese and basically anybody of West Indian descent as brown people. They may have grown up in another part of the world, but their native roots go back to the 5 desi nations. The problem is that these people are such a dark shade of brown that they might as well fall in the black people category. I don’t know why they would choose to be associated with brown people when they clearly have a choice to be black and cool. Our focus will be more towards the desi brown population, but if we can think of something to write about for our West Indian brothers then we will.
Now I’d like to talk about confusion with brown people. On September 11th, over 3,000 Americans lost their lives. For us brown people, there was another tragic outcome – the association with terrorism. It doesn’t matter if you’re a shade of caramel brown or brown like a Cadbury bar. If you’re brown, you’re in the cross hair of the government. Post 9/11, we heard stories of Sikhs getting beaten because some ignorant racist confused them with the Taliban. Desi brown people are not the same as Middle-Eastern brown people. Let me put this in simpler terms so that even white people can understand: If the desi brown people are like the New York Mets, then Middle-Eastern Brown people are like the New York Yankees. Yes, both teams are from New York but you either root for the Yankees or the Mets. Attacking a Sikh person for 9/11 is like beating up Mets third base man David Wright after the Yankees lose a game.
Our goal here is to give people a better understanding of what “brown” people are. In the next few entries of this series, we’ll talk more about things brown people like (hence the title stuff brown people like…so clever we are). If this entry saves another brown person from being attacked for 9/11 hate crime, then Curry Bear will die a happy bear. NOTE: The previous statement was just a figure of speech. Curry Bear can’t die nor can he be killed because he is just too awesome to die.
Update: One of our readers (Dipps you sexy beast you) pointed out in the comments and others as well through several e-mails that C-Bizzle left out Afghanistan as part of the 5 desi nations where brown people come from. Is CB an ignorant fool? Sometimes he is but not for this entry. I left Afghanistan out intentionally. I love Afghani people – I think they make some good kebabs and I love that game they play with a dead goat. However, I don’t want brown people to be associated with Afghanis for a while. For a long while. Like another century or until America stops bombing them. After 9/11 and the whole fiasco with the Taliban, I think Afghanistan falls more with the Middle-East than South Asia. Afghanistan is like that cool geeky friend you had in middle school but then joined a different crowd when high school came around and became a bad boy. Oh Anthony, why did you start hanging out with Travis and leave me behind with the Chess club? But the number one reason I didn’t include Afghanistan was because Afghanis are simply not brown. They’re too albino to be brown. Afghanis have skin that is too fair to be classed as brown. The sun don’t shine on them long enough to be called brown.
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The word desi started to distinguish the british white from the indian natives (dot indians not feather). When speaking about a native, they used the word “desi” to refer to them, when speaking about the british, they used words like “furingy”, “bastards”, “cocksuckers”, “white devil”, and etc to refer to them. Lagaan was a good movie.
The region of “South Asia” or that sub-continent, is the region that was ruled by Akbar (not the owner of Akbar restaurant on route 1 in Edison) which is composed of all those countries listed. Akbar restaurant sucks.
CB I hope you make a lot of fun of gujjus and punjabis.
Yo if you hate Akbar check out the buffet at Tawa on Plainfield Ave.
Somewhere a bunch of Hispanics are pissed off you came up with this first…lol
haha we own brown now!
Bangladesh whoohoo!
Wasn’t Afghanistan part of certain “Desi” kingdoms as well? Hence the huge Buddha statues that the Talibs blew up. So aren’t Afghanis our kinda Brown?
I am so confused.
afgani’s are a tough category. They consider themselves central asians not south asians. Even though there is virtually no difference between a pathan from afganistan and a pathan from pakistan they are usually not considered desi. But alot of them are brown. Afganistan doesn’t really share a lot of the desi culture. They do share some cultural things with pakistan but that is due more to the similarities in religion and region.
Well they watch Bollywood movies too. They’re pretty in touch with India as well.
Afghanis love desi movies and amitabh but so does half the middle east. I donno man, like cb said
“Afghanistan is like that cool geeky friend you had in middle school but then joined a different crowd when high school came around and became a bad boy.”
Here’s another post I liked from the White People blog lol
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/4-assists/
the world will eventually become all brown… skin color i mean. and the term “brown people” won’t work. so coin a better phrase… currypeople? we all eat curry right? but then again so do thai people. hmmm quite a dilemma.
haha somebody has already started making a black version of that site
You people are retarded…hispanics are brown..indian are just dirty
Jaded is a hater.
so curry bear got me in the mood for some afghani food.
so when you hear the words…
mexican, puerto rican, dominican columbian, aztec you think clean!?
please don’t be hatin
be nice boys and girls
you know Sonia i see you comment every now and then, and just from your name I can imagine you as being super hot. I just had to let it out.
Afghanistan has always been separate. Alexander the Great had to conquer it separately, and once doing so made his way towards India. Though many Rajas respected and feared Alex, he never conquered them, because he died from malaria. The Russians also tried to take them over but got their asses whooped.
PS i fuck sonia every night, she very sexy
Rajas Respected and reared Alex,
I fear and respect mad Ranis?
Am I whipped? Is Dhalsim that flexible?
HMMMM…. brown ppl are awesome, but seriously ppl chill no racist comments, especially you jaded. If you haven’t noticed currybear and his ppl don’t roll like that.
Side point: Hey tacky are you just going to let some jack character take your spot as the infamous im hitting on you commentor?
Nice, I really like the Yankees/Mets analogy
CB called me a sexy beast! Made my day!
Afghani and pakistani guys are hot, sucks they are off limits for us gujju girls. Damn you!
i have a large penis
eeeew
Afghans are NOT too Albino to be brown..
I`m just as dark as my punjabi friend (whom everyone calls white for some reason) and I`m Afghani..
Hmmmm interesting points
Just to let all you FOOLs know:
The people of Afghanistan are called Afghans. Not afghani. Afghani is our currency. Get it right. Would anyone ever call a Canadian a canadiani? like wtf.
And for the record, we’re middle eastern = not brown. only a smaller percentage of us are of darker skin.
Hey peeps, Please check out brownpride.com this site is for all brown oh and fuck Jade she probably a dont have a bath white skank
haramzarda afghanistan to hai south asian tuttey ruung de looorgue.
Hinduism owr sikhissm ke roots iss mulk de vich ur.
Aghan pathan indian filmo mee sharmill hai? Suddha khanna peena alag alag hai.
Bhain chord curry bear me twaddeh saart buzkushey keeroooo gaa
bade mian chote mian