#to understand that Hindi films aren't all that popular in the South unless they're dubbed in the regional languages

[kahuladragon]

I see a lot of Americans supporting Trevor Noah on Twitter about his dumb joke about India & Pakistan going to war. Telling us not to be offended and it’s not a racist joke. No it’s not. But people in the USA don’t understand - that cultural/political dissonance excellently portrayed by Trevor dumb joke - is that many Muslims in India will face the ire of misplaced nationalists during the war (kinda like your white supremacists) and HINDUs (a very minuscule minority) in Pakistan will face equal danger. 

So no, a lot of Indians and Pakistanis ‘did not get the joke’. 

Also, which 2nd or 3rd generation Indian-American wrote that joke? Or did some white dude just flick through some terrible Hindi films and then decide this was the least offensive joke? Because honestly, that joke fails even there coz Pakistanis LOVE BOLLYWOOD FILMS and half the revenue comes from there. So what? Both armies are going to have an antakshri? Like if he’d actually used that word and had gone that route I think a lot of us would’ve laughed. Antakshris can get quite intense.

A lot of Hindi film actors have big fan followings and their own ‘clubs’ there. So yeah, that joke was about culturally genuine to Indians or Pakistanis as Indian Chinese cuisine is.