that’s so cute how you act like you’ve gone to a club and have been looked down on and all…we know it ain’t so.

Come give me a hug.

Um. Or not. You must be really bad at reading people… based on her background, the way she talks, the way she dresses, her hair, etc., she definitely isn’t the type who’s been raised with a silver spoon in her mouth. And even if she was, what makes the average ‘rich snotty brown grl’ any different from your average rich douchebag brown guy?

Oh-my-god. She-is-c-r-a-z-y.

She is promiscuous ?

puli, Idont like hugging either except as foreplay. But I might put my arm around someone sometimes as encouragement – sideways – no frontal contact though. Most of relos dont hug one another. And I am Mallu Xian, so it is not peculiar to TamB’s

For example, I can’t think of anyone in my extended family hugging another adult, sibling, parent or otherwise. For people like me, hugging is something I, a TamBrahm, tolerate in order to survive socially in a multi-culti world. I’m serious.”

interesting….yet another example of my culture making me stick out like a sore thumb.

To anyone reading this from Mumbai or with loved ones in Mumbai – take all the empathy my heart can hold.

Puli, it’s a Tam-Brahm thing, and possibly shared by many other desis as well. Millions of us (ok, maybe only about a million) think like you. Trust me, its nothing abnormal or inhibited; don’t let these compulsive huggers tell you that you are different and weird for not wanting to be hugged.

For example, I can’t think of anyone in my extended family hugging another adult, sibling, parent or otherwise. For people like me, hugging is something I, a TamBrahm, tolerate in order to survive socially in a multi-culti world. I’m serious.

of course…she looks like your average rich snotty brown grl.