Of course you dont ‘straight’ white american men, PG. Since ‘straight’ american men typically prefer women.
Yes! My first PG swat.

Sure, he didnt necessarily expound on it, so take the most inclusive defintion you can think of.

And would an Indian from India necessarily know more about those things just by grace of growing up there?

Not necessarily, but I’d say generally yes. At the very least, they’d know the ethos of the Indian people much more deeply and personally, just as an Indian growing up in the US would be more aware of US racism for example, than someone growing up outside of the US.

Perhaps that indeed foreign born desis take a more active interest in their ancestral culture since they don’t take it for granted as much as DBD’s would do.

Some do and some don’t, I don’t consider Sitara or Basement Bhangra “active interest in their ancestral culture” as for taking it granted or not, it really comes from a place of having it be inaccessible or threatened. This might have been the case in America of the 60s and 70s, but now information and venues are pretty accessible.

No, not by virtue, it would take someone’s direct interest and following to pursue them, rather than in India where less of an effort would need to be made (although I agree efforts would need to be made there also)… His statement couldve been worded better, but generally speaking someone removed from a culture/setting would be less likely to know that culture unless he/she made a strong effort to learn/pick it up.

Yep, but then there is the definition of what ‘knowing Indian culture & traditions’ means. Does it mean, just having a good knowledge about Indian cultural diversity/history? Or does it also mean adhering to what some could consider outmoded notions of social duties? And would an Indian from India necessarily know more about those things just by grace of growing up there? I think not. Perhaps that indeed foreign born desis take a more active interest in their ancestral culture since they don’t take it for granted as much as DBD’s would do. And I’m sorry, but these chumps who come and post about how ABD/American girls are too high and mighty and they prefer South Asian or European girls – which seems like an insult to their intelligence – Euro girls(way to generalise btw!) are certainly no suckers – they don’t sound like they seek the kind of girl with a thorough understanding of Indian culture and history!

What style of Kung Fu does he do.

This is true. one should definitely allow for the possibilities of outliers.

which is exactly my point of not pre-judging the individuals one may meet..

it’s just troublesome to me that some people can go so easily from two (or even 10) personal experiences to pre-judging individuals based on obvious markers. it’s one thing to be prepared for the possibility than an individual of a particular group might have a particular tendency/trait – it’s a wholly different thing to reject the possibility that they might not at all have that tendency or trait.

I re-read his statement, and I guess I understood it in a relative sense.

dont know any ABD girls but I highly doubt that just by grace of growing up in the States they don’t have any knowledge of ‘Indian culture/traditions’

No, not by virtue, it would take someone’s direct interest and following to pursue them, rather than in India where less of an effort would need to be made (although I agree efforts would need to be made there also)…

His statement couldve been worded better, but generally speaking someone removed from a culture/setting would be less likely to know that culture unless he/she made a strong effort to learn/pick it up.

Why does a simple statement of “knowing Indian culture/traditions” immediately translate to being a docile, barefoot, breeding machine that salivates at a GC? Most of my cousins and their female friends want to stay in India, because this allure of “America the great, the plentiful” is eroding, and true stories of America’s racism and glass ceiling are making their way back. However, people living in country A are generally more likely to know about country A then those living outside it (and yes it applies to men as well)