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They ring true. Some moments don't even have to exaggerated to be funny. That is exactly how being "cool" works in parts of India, and just the fact is enough t
by screye 8y ago
They ring true. Some moments don't even have to exaggerated to be funny. That is exactly how being "cool" works in parts of India, and just the fact is enough to make a person from the west crack up.
Dinesh is one of the few nerdy Indian stereotypes that I do not mind. All the others seem like caricatures and generalizations of South Asians. Dinesh on the other hand, could be sitting right across my table, coding....
If The Big Short is considered a great "documentary" for the 2008 crisis, then SV does even better for the Valley.
- danans 8y ago> That is exactly how being "cool" works in parts of India, and just the fact is enough to make a person from the west crack up. Indeed. In the context of the show, and American culture, it was Dinesh's perspective that stood out as seeming odd or unique. But I wonder if the post-1950s American/Hollywood understanding of "cool" - the glorification of rebel/outcaste that Gilfoyle's personality represents - is itself really the anomaly on the global scale. I'd imagine many/most parts of the world don't develop a romantic cultural trope around the underdog, or the person who doesn't fit in with the mainstream. But I'd be interested to learn otherwise.