#South Asian Americans

[vintage-portland]

Plainfield's Mayur Cuisine of India, 1979

Located at 852 SW 21st Ave, Plainfield’s Mayur Cuisine of India was opened by Rekha and Richard Plainfield. The restaurant had one of Portland’s first tandoor ovens and was open for over 35 years. It closed its doors in 2013. Portland City Archives, AP/45732 Click here to view this image on Efiles.

[toongrrl-blog]

"And in immigrant households, the women are always leaning on each other, learning from each other, are foils to each other."

[karinyosa]

id:

a tweet by azadeh shahshahani (@ashahshahani) that says, "anticipate heightened targeting of palestinian and muslim community members by the fbi in the coming weeks.

if you live in the u.s. south and are contacted by the fbi for questioning, contact us at project south.

the national lawyers guild has a national hotline: (212) 679-2811"

end id.

[toiletpotato]

The 2023 American Girl Doll of the Year is Kavi Sharma, a South Asian American theatre kid who loves Wicked SO SHE HAS A REPLICA ELPHABA COSTUME. I am absolutely ecstatic that kids get this.

edit: SHE ALSO HAS A GLINDA COSTUME

SHE ALSO HAS THIS!! BECAUSE SHE PERFORMS A TRADITIONAL DANCE ROUTINE WITH HER FRIENDS AT SCHOOL AND SHE LOVES BOLLYWOOD

[milkcos]

lemonade mouth/band au! more notes under the cut

lemonade as in like the disney movie! so there are a couple like clear comparisons but mostly it's the bad kids get stuck in detention together except they form a band instead of an adventuring party

fabian > no equivalent (olivia vibes)

the most popular kid at school who is both in dance and on the football team. somehow gets decent grades as well. no close friends, but a lot of people who know him and want to get on his good side. kind of depressed, and his dad's currently in prison. he started playing the guitar as a way to show off and then genuinely started enjoying it

adaine > mo

she's a concert violist (playing the viola) always an accompaniment for her sister and is striking it out on her own for the first time. her family is very upset about this, and consistently puts her down so she'll go along with they want her to do. also she recently transitioned to going to public school for the first time, making her the new girl.

kristen > no equivalent

she's recently ex mormon, got out of her parents house (currently living in her car) and without all of her former friends stuck in a student president position that she got when she was still with the religion. questioning her sexuality after one too many encounters with the soccer team captain, tracker. used to be on the church choir, was a bit too enthusiastic about it.

gorgug > no equivalent (charlie vibes)

he's got like one or two kinda friends (mainly fig). extremely busy with his classes and with marching band and self isolating as a result. he's stressed out about living up to his parent's name (they run a very successful electric engineering company). signed up to work as a sound tech for the theatre department bc one of the female stage managers is very cute (zelda) and then discovered that he rlly like it.

riz > no equivalent

no friends! (other than maybe the AV club + penny) too used to burying himself in work at both his part time gig and with his insane amount of extracurriculars. started playing the piano bc he heard it helps with memory retention and overall cognitive ability.

fig > stella/wen

she's the cool loner skater kid who is the floater friend mostly? she's got a maybe relationship with ayda, who she loves to annoy at the school library. very interested in making her own music not very interested in school. freaking out over her parents getting remarried. her mom enrolled her in music lessons when she was younger, and it's one of the only things she can talk about with her mom these days.

[normalbrothershow]

the thing with racism in supernatural is that you can look at any aspect of the show and you WILL find something racist. whether in-universe (where you can additionally differ with hunter culture, monsters+lore, fetishisation), writing, casting, production.

like only scratching the surface of the anti black racism with the casting is like:

90% of black supernatural characters are antagonists with insane potential who got killed off (or ignored in raphaels case) the second they finished an amazing build-up for a character arc (gordon, jake s2, henriksen, uriel, raphael, the vampire alpha)

5% of black supernatural characters are 1-episode side characters or minor characters that had about 2% of their potential used (rufus, missouri, the hunter couple)

last 5% of black supernatural characters had 1-2 scenes where they functioned either 1. as hoodoo/voodoo plot device (playthings, crossroad blues) or 2. random demon (also antagonists)

and this is with black spn characters making up like. 5% of all spn characters

[artfilmfan]

Past Lives (Celine Song, 2023)

[sweet-potato-42]

cool fun fact for sunday

East Asia and South of South America are Antipodes meaning that they are in completely opposite points on the globe.

This means that when Acau joins we will have ccs in oppolise places playing together. People who physically could not be further away from each other.

The ones in buenos aires would be the furthest but i doubt Carre will play so I think cellbit or bagi are next. (idk where exactly they live but I'm pretty sure they come from the south of brazil)

Here is a map of the world showing antipodes. The areas in orange are perfectly opposite to each other.

[pixiatn]

POKEMON AND DISLYTE CHARACTER DESIGNERS, SNEAK INTO HOYO HQ AND MAKE DARK SKINNED CHARACTERS AND MY LIFE IS YOURS‼️‼️‼️

[hussyknee]

TikTok isn't enough USAmericans need to be banned from every app. The Main Character Syndrome is unreal.

[renegaedz]

HAPPY AAPI MONTH TO EVERYONE WHO QUESTIONS MY EXISTENCE

NOW ASK ME AGAIN (WHY I WEAR HIJAB)

[dougdimmadodo]

Fast Fauna Facts #14 - Firebrat (Thermobia domestica)

Family: Silverfish Family (Lepismatidae)

IUCN Conservation Status: Unassessed

Like its close relatives the silverfishes, the Firebrat (named for its attraction to warmth which often draws it towards empty fireplaces) belongs to an unusual order of anatomically "primitive" insects that never developed wings, in contrast to most wingless insects which are descended from winged ancestors. Firebrats can be found on every continent except Antarctica and generally inhabit shaded forests where they feed on leaf litter, but like silverfishes they frequently become established in warm human homes where they may reproduce rapidly (with females laying as many as 6,000 eggs throughout their lives in clutches of over 60 at a time) and emerge from sheltered areas mainly at night to feed on any digestible matter they can find - while they prefer sugary and starchy foods such as flour and cereals they may also eat organic textiles, paper, card, dried meats and the remains of other insects, with a diverse community of mutualistic bacteria housed in their digestive systems producing enzymes that allow them to digest almost anything organic.

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[potogawaryuiki]

I couldn't finish I gave up

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[sivavakkiyar]

Amitava Kumar, A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb, 2010

[millionsofbooks]

something about the tiktok ban that i haven't really seen people here talking about is the experience of tiktok users not from the usa, which was, as far as i can tell, on the whole, very positive. it was actually really nice to, for a short period of time, be on a major social media network and able to interact with people across the world without usamericans constantly inserting themselves into every conversation.

usamericans kind of take over people's fyp regardless of where you're from. this is partly to do with the fact that the creators fund is only available to usamericans so most of the shitty content farms are from the us. then there's also the cultural aspect of the fact that being a citizen of the most powerful empire in the world is a significant privilege, and also a privilege that 99% of usamericans are seemingly unable to acknowledge, plus the us centrism and exceptionalism, plus the constant need to cast themselves as the underdog, and, well. it's annoying.

so, like. everything of what i've seen (which is not to say that other opinions don't exist, just that i haven't seen them) is that it was really nice when the usamericans were gone, and it kind of sucks that they're back.

[harbinger-of-lesbianism]

Thoughts about being South Asian in the West

Something that I've just noticed a lot is the lack of South Asian representation in Wester media. Yes, we have Bollywood, which is cool and all, but I want to be able to see an adult Indian person on the screen go through some of the struggles that I do as a Desi American. That would just be nice. There is genuinely very little in terms of representation in western media for me. If they are South Asian, they're most likely not Sikh. I know there are a bunch of Sikh actors out there. There are people like me, that have my experiences who are talented and would love to be the main character of some show or movie. I want that. It would just be nice. If people are going to come for me and say "oh there aren't that many Sikhs out there", I want you to understand that Sikhi is the fifth largest religion. We are one of the major religions!!! There are so many of us in the US and in the west. We should be able to get our rep too.