Do any of us know her personally? No? Then we shouldn’t assume we know exactly how she worships or why. Beyond that, if someone identifies as “Hindu” culturally but not in a stricter, religious sense, do any of us get to determine what they “are”? I would hope not.

Sure, she’s a public figure, so some measure of conjecture/armchair analysis is to be expected but the pseudo-omniscience is inappropriate. And I’d say that even if I didn’t like her. How many readers of this site have been insulted by others who decided they weren’t “Desi” enough? Muslim enough? Hetero enough? Identity and faith are intensely personal things; we should respect that, no matter whom we’re discussing.

not you in particular, but if it’s meaningless, why does anybody care whether she does or does not discuss her brahmin roots? plus, just because you don’t see it outwardly does not mean that she is not hindu or conservative to some extent (or more to my point that growing up in a hindu or conservative background didn’t influence her in some way)

There’s nothing conservative or remotely hindu about her. I think its meaningless for her to mention it.

i meant that oftentimes she mentions it when talking about growing up in a traditional/conservatve hindu environment(after all,tam-brams do have a very distinctive culture). she also mentions it when she says that she grew up vegetarian, and is still sometimes squeamish about eating meat

doing that while sellin burgers is the opportunism bit.

i’m pretty sure there was no indication of her being brahmin in the carl’s ad

Congrats to her and the kid and the father, anyway.

As for her ethnicity…whatever she is, she doesn’t look like she’s from anywhere in particular. She looks like a strange mix of features from all over the place, subcontinent and beyond.

No one cares about Brahims in the USA.

Most Indian kids born in the the USA (or out of India) don’t know Brahmin.

Brhamin:- What does it mean ?

And that’s the .1 % that actually understand the distinction.

again. you think anybody cares about this in the u.s? that this codes as high class to her audience??

I would think the stereotype of Brahmin’s in America would be more like “the people who oppress others/untouchables” since people who don’t know much would really draw off the stereotype.. you know,, Gandhi, Dalits, “evil” Brahmins…