The Simpsons: Not all Indians think Apu is a racist stereotype.

Pedro_P

▼ Why is a goofy Indian convenience store owner in a satirical TV series suddenly raising the hackles of some Indian-Americans, nearly three decades after he was introduced as a character?
In The Simpsons, Bengal-born Apu Nahasapeemapetilon is an indefatigable immigrant who talks in a mocking sing-song way. He topped his class of "seven million students" in a college in India before moving to the dystopian fictional town of Springfield, peopled by misfits and oddballs and powered by a polluting nuclear plant owned by a heartless cynic.
A devout Hindu, Apu is a doting father to eight children and eccentric husband to a homemaker wife, with whom he had an arranged marriage. Best known to his fans around the world for his catchphrase, "Thank you, come again", Apu loves cricket, drives a 1979 Pontiac Firebird, enjoys one rock song and is a miser.
The problem with Apu erupted last November when Indian-American comic Hari Kondabulu argued in an angry 49-minute documentary that the store owner is based on racial stereotypes.
Kondabulu hates Apu's accent, which he describes as a "white guy doing an impression of a white guy making fun of my father". (▪ ▪ ▪)

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soothsayer

may be our folks wake up too late to protest and then the protest makes no sense

jitukawade

Don't know anything about this character, need to do some research before commenting.

booklover1980

Lets face it sterotypes exist everwhere. As indians we are guilty od sterotyping people. On a reg6basis depending on where they belong to. If we can do it among ourselves, i dont think we should be overly concerned or agitated about a charactwr which has been appearing on the simpsons since ages.

CaptSandy

If you ever have had a friend from outside India? Then you would know about all the crazy wrong misconceptions they have about India and it’s people. All these Indian stereotypes that actually bog our country.