11 Comments Every South Indian Faces.
1. How come you have straight hair?
Yes am a southie and i have straight hair and yes its natural.Its perfectly ok and guys its not the everyone from south has curly hairs.
2. Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, they’re all the same right?
Are Gujarati and Punjabi the same? Of course not, right? Similarly, though we are all south Indians we have different languages for different states as well,depending on the ones we reside in. Now it might sound similar to you but trust me, each language is vividly different from the other.
3. Do have idli and dosaa for breakfast, lunch and dinner?
No! Yes we eat a lot of dosas and idlis and vadas, but that doesn’t necessarily mean every south Indian eats all that only! We eat other stuff too and sometimes even more than the others, so people need to stop assuming that dosas are all we survive on.
4. Tell us some abuses in your language.
This is a childish question that is asked to most south Indians and this being because for the others it is intriguing to listen to how some words sounds and laugh about how weird they are.
5. Your language is so funny.
Its just a language! Now we might not sound as sophisticated as French or Latin but its not like we invented it. All we had to do was learn it and we excelled in it. Its funny only because you don’t understand what it means.
6. South Indians are supposed to be smart, right?
So this can be a huge disadvantage too at times when you do or say something you shouldn’t have ought to and the other person just goes ,’But you’re supposed to be smart considering you’re a south Indian.” This could be sarcastic or a taunt but it works against us south Indians and we have to listen to this preconceived notion a lot of times from others and we can’t do anything about it.
7. You know bharatnatyam?
Yes its a dance form originating in the south but no, I didn’t learn it. Why? I don’t know, didn’t feel like. Its not necessary that every south Indian must have learnt it at some point, some of us have other interests.
8. Why don’t you have an accent?
I know our accent is funny and half of our nation can imitate it but no, I don’t have a south Indian accent as the people in the remote villages do. It might be tough for you to believe but that’s how it is and I can speak as normally as you can, without revealing that I’m from the south.
9. So you must be a vegetarian, right?
Yes I’m a south Indian and yes I eat non veg food. Shocking? That’s what we thought. Not every south Indian is a brahmin and not ever brahmin is a vegetarian. People need to stop being so judgmental.
10. They associate everything with rajinikanth.
So I’m talking about my state, culture, language but all you are bothered about is rajnikanth. Sometimes people who are not south Indians happen to be more obsessed with rajnikanth than the ones that actually are. Hey, there’s more to us than just rajnikanth, not that you’ll believe us, but there is.
11. How come you’re so fair?
Yes people, there are south Indians that happen to be fair and they exist. These are the people that are sick of being labelled by others, yes some of us are dark but others aren’t. How racist are you’ll? Stop this cruelty, already.
