I'm Asian but I act 'White'

A bit of a sarcastic comment - just playing on the typical British attitude of blaming the immigrants, but giving a new young British Asian twist to it!

And let's be honest we all do it to some extent (blaming immigrants), no matter how leftie/liberal someone is.

I know the feeling all too well. my areas Asians are predominantly chavs who start sentences in wag1 and end in "innit blad". when I was in sixthI tried being an Asian chav and...backfired (although my ex-gf from then ended up modelling abroad so I cant complain :P ). my grades ended up suffering and lost a lot of my close white friends from high school. since I went to uni however I found out that most Asians were well educated in my course (yes you had the occasional wag1 but most had same hobbies / interest as me and had posher accents than I). I found that most Asians were like me in the sense that we spoke with british accents (rather than the freshie hybrid accent that most Asian chavs have) and were interested in a variety of things (I myself listen to j rock / Japanese dancehall, Swedish music, Russian rapping and Ukrainian rock music, as well as liking british / American TV & Films and indian comedies).

I guess 1 person's definition of acting Asian is anothers of being a chav.

Typical South Asian traditional culture

Respecting the S Asian culture…

Even white women would wear S Asian clothes in our weddings, but she wouldn't wear S Asian clothes in a wedding? That's ridiculous.

There's nothing bad about saying wag1 and innit, don't be an idiot. A chav isn't described as talking hood, a chav is someone that acts like a badman, gets into drugs and stuff and eventually does badly in their education. Using wag1 and innit isn't chavvy, it's just in their vocabulary because they've been raised in a environment where it's normal to talk like that.

Seriously I say wag1 and innit ALL the time, but I got great grades at A-Levels and I'm doing a very difficult course at a top university now. Bare man talk like me and do well in their studies, there's no correlation. We were just raised up like that because to us, it's normal. That's all it is.

I absolutley despise the chavy, south asian London accent. Y'know, the one like, "Yo, blad, wagwan innit fam", "Yes famalam, yo lets get some gash bruv."I live in Wales and every south asian i know speaks like that; Pakistani and Bengali.

Not your fault if you're not around Asian people, but you should keep S Asian traditional values, I mean not wearing Indian clothes at a wedding? Cmon, that's pathetic

Let's be honest, the British Asians are in a bit of a pickle: Most white British people would rarely ever consider us as completely equal and always think of us as foreign; whereas the Indians/Pakistanis/Bangladeshis back in South Asia would almost always consider us also as foreigners who have abandoned them and their culture.We're neither here nor there: it's like being stuck between a rock and a hard place - I blame our immigrant parents and grandparents!!

This is so true. We will never be truly british or truly indian. We face subtle discrimination here and outright rejection back in India.

Other Asians don't really like me, unless they are also similar, and imply that I've defaulted for not complying with Asian culture standards.

Any one else relate?

Yeah
Nah its too intense and too little room for individualism

This is so true. We will never be truly british or truly indian. We face subtle discrimination here and outright rejection back in India.

the only ones rejected in India or their native countries are the ones who have detached themselves from the culture. You can be modern and like burgers and have a Twitter without like having shame. ugh.

When I go back to India my relatives and their friends snicker at me for not being religous and judge me for drinking and living a lifestyle that is quite normal over here but strange to them.

I haven't detached myself from indian culture, I was never part of it to begin with! My skin colour does not define my culture. I was brought up in a predominantly white area of England and as such I take most of my cultural habits from here.

no.
but what do you mean "act white?" Like you only have white mates and publicly insult Bollywood and the Indian accent or something?



how are we intense??

Indian culture can be very intense with this whole obsession of how you should live your life. Eat this, don't eat that. Pray this many times a week for all these auspicious days. Don't drink, don't party, don't have sexual relationships, be a 'good indian'. Become a doctor/engineer/lawyer, don't have sex until your marriage to a nice indian, don't marry a muslim, don't be gay, don't like gays, don't treat women equally...

It can be quite restrictive as a culture. Also, in my opnion, quite boring. I look at all the indians I know in London and they are so proud of being 'more indian' than me but I love my life and would never ever want to be like them.