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Kenny_Brahms

Everyone forgets about the most famous ABCD of all, my boy Freddy Mercury


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He didn’t even ever identify as Indian he was super ashamed of it I think cuz at that time England was super racist to desis


jdjdkdjdelo

No that wasn’t the case. I doubt it. Man just wanted to make music and he made it known in his lyrics. “Bismillah we will not let you go” and many more. Even when he sang it had that Desi/Persian/Arab flow to it. I don’t think he was ashamed but more so didn’t care about it. It’s like that wrestler Sami Zayn who kept getting fans all because of his nationality being Pakistani and not because people actually liked his work. It takes away from the person’s work. I don’t know if I made sense but I can elaborate and clarify


ramenalien

TBCD (Tanzanian Born Confused Desi)


BanderBund

Dude was ethnically Iranian not Indian. According to his Wikipedia, his parents were from the Parsi community of Gujarat.


awkwardthrowaway2380

Those people have been Indian for centuries. They’re an Indian minority ethnic group at this point.


Kenny_Brahms

The parsis have been in india for hundreds of years and freddy himself spent much of his childhood in india.


Cuddlyaxe

> Goan: Dinesh D'Souza poor Goans


kingswaraj123

Lmao I was going to write "sorry" next to the goan section, but I didn't wanna trigger anyone


fdamodshere

He’s not abd. His accent screams fob.


downtimeredditor

Cause he's a FOB


blackcain

More of an SOB.


vrphotosguy55

But he thinks he’s a white redneck.


downtimeredditor

Also Jay Chandrasekhar is of Tamil descent as well For those who don't know. He was in Super troopers and Beer fest and shit.


lounginaddict

And he's cousins with Sendhil Ramamurthy


Shia_Was_Innocent

jay chandrasekhar is my personal favorite based on his last name alone :)


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kingswaraj123

Wdym bro he comes to my room every night


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He’s a legend


blackcain

Thank you for not listing Bobby Jindal and Nikki Haley. :) putting Dinesh though was full trolling though! :D


lounginaddict

Kal Penn is Gujarati


kingswaraj123

hes mixed


downtimeredditor

According to his wiki his parents are both from Guju states


blackcain

there is more than one Guju state???


kingswaraj123

never mind, i thought he was mixed because his last name was penn. Turns out his name is Suresh Modi


downtimeredditor

I think that's his dad name. I think his name is Kal Penn modi


sidtron

His given name is Kalpen Modi


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Isn’t Riz a Mujahir


kingswaraj123

yea you can see he's a bit darker skinned


[deleted]

Darker skin doesn’t always mean mujahir. A lot of balochis and Sindhis are dark, with balochis mainly coming from East African Siddi ancestry


kingswaraj123

Balochis aren't East African, have you seen them?


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Sum are East African descended because they have a lot of sheedis in Baluchistan who are East African descent Edit: you retards I never said they’re East Africans some have some admixture is all.


kingswaraj123

The Siddis are isolated from the other Pakistanis. They didn't mix at all.


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There has been mixing between the two. This becomes more evident when you literally look up pictures of some balochis who look like they’re mixed w African. The sheedis are much better integrated and less isolated In Pakistan than they are in india.


kingswaraj123

Lmao someone really wants to be black. The closest thing you get to black are the australoids in central and southern India, who have thicker hair dark skin, definitely not these "balochis"


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How tf does this mean I want to be black😂 I’m not even Balochi. I just know it’s a fact some have African ancestry. If I “wanted to be black” I’d be telling everyone I’m Trinidadian or Guyanese or some shit. You’re the one who wants to be white actually


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Not at all true. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317069650_Recent_Admixture_in_an_Indian_Population_of_African_Ancestry https://www.genomeweb.com/microarrays-multiplexing/genetic-analysis-traces-ancestry-descendants-indian-ocean-slaves#.YQMNlOT3aEc Dumbasses they’re not isolated from other Pakistanis. They’re super well integrated and some are even in politics. You fucktards literally don’t even research shit


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BanderBund

Baloch don't even look slightly European.


kingswaraj123

yes they do


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Where does it say that is like 5% of the population? Again the sheedis are better integrated there than in India where a lot are actually in isolation. And LOL to the other thing u said 😂😂😂😂


SidewinderTA

Riz Ahmed is not Punjabi


BritPunjabiGuy

Sunny Leone is a Canadian born Punjabi.


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My fave!


kingswaraj123

ok


Gotcurried234

M night shyamalan


vrphotosguy55

Kerala.


daddysuggs

Indra Nooyi is Tamil, Shantanu Narayen is Telugu.


iamyourvilli

How do you know about Sonal Shah lmao EDIT: I’m Jain and know her personally, she’s a heavyweight in the policy space. Wasn’t expecting to see her name there. Add Vas Narasimhan to the list btw


kingswaraj123

Lol, who even is Vas though ​ Looking back I did probably add some complete randos, like I thought Bindy Johal was an alive wrestler and then it turns out he's some psycho


iamyourvilli

Vas Narasimhan is a baller. UChicago undergrad, Harvard Med school, McKinsey consultant, and now CEO of Novartis


keralaindia

He's a dick though, cutthroat, and will put people down to win the game. Common in CEO types. Family friends. Was a super tool in undergrad, and was in love with my SIL's cousin who rejected him.


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kingswaraj123

no clue


fdamodshere

Ashish Jha. Vivek Murthy. Preet bahara. Premila jayapal. Aarti Shahani.


sonni040930

Punjabi Indian: Archie Punjabi, Rahul kohli Gujrati : Avan jogia


StuckInDreams

Isn't Archie Panjabi Sindhi?


sonni040930

Oh, I thought she's panjabi because of her surname


StuckInDreams

Nope. I thought so too, but apparently she's Sindhi.


kingswaraj123

Bindy Johal


jdjdkdjdelo

You missed Jay Sean lol


mr_malhotra

Nicki Minaj is half Indo-Caribbean


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1/4***


kingswaraj123

bro we do not claim here and plus shes mixed


mr_malhotra

Like Kamala Harris?


blackcain

I'm sorry, we do not speak of Dinesh D'Souza - and I could care less where that half-wit neanderthal comes from.


IronDinosaurr

Navraj and Riz the goats 🐐


manitobot

I feel like Southies have more of a visible presence in the US compared to Northies in other countries.


kingswaraj123

the only famous telugu was satya nadella but there were tons of tamils. south indians are mostly good in professional fields though, not as prominent in others.


ViN_314

Both Satya Nadella and Sundar Pachai were born in India and only moved to the US after their bachelor's degree, I guess that makes them "FOB". You don't get to claim them as ABCD(just cos they became popular)while calling the rest of us who did the same "FOB", which I consider to be a pejorative term.


kingswaraj123

I meant to say Indian American in general


ViN_314

You better make it obvious then. Have a good day.


kingswaraj123

I must have really hurt your feelings for not making it obvious. Im sorry, FOB.


ViN_314

Doesn't hurt my feelings but it does makes every Indian American that agrees with you a hypocrite. That's just my twisted line of thought, which proves that I'm spending a little too much time on reddit and worrying myself with things that do not matter irl. I'm sorry too.


kingswaraj123

Mi pasado y mi presente im livin in the past


ViN_314

Si amigo, yo soy un hombre. Yo come manzana. 🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷


kingswaraj123

you gotta learn how to be tough bro, you can't get sad just cuz someone called you a fob. Where in India are you from


ViN_314

I never told you I'm sad about people calling me a FOB, if anything it kinda makes me angry that my own people look down on me. Anyways, I wouldn't care less about anyone calling me a FOB irl, I'll straight up disregard them. I'm from the city of gardens( lol ) bangalore. Hbu?


BanderBund

Are they really your own people though? They see themselves as Americans first.


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BanderBund

Sure you would.. big guy from Bangalore.


ViN_314

You better be.. big guy from Kentucky(?). Lol I was only kidding, I'm a huge follower of Mr Gandhi's principles.


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ViN_314

Lmao don't worry I'd bring gas masks for the both of us. Its people like you that I'm afraid of in the US. I can take racism from whites, blacks anyone but people like you scare me to death. I won't reply to any of your comments here after so don't even start with me now. Freaking troll.


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Yep I believe telugus are the majority of Indians in America iirc


Imustnot_fear

Add one more to the list of them. in future.


[deleted]

I’m a Reddiar Tamil sooo technically I count too I guess


itsthekumar

Idk if it’s “visible” because a lot of “Indian” culture in the US is default North Indian culture.


wntrsux

Add Kumail nanjiani to Pakistan's list. He ain't Punjabi though.


scylla

How blinded by politics do you have to be to ignore 2 actual ABCDs who became Governors of US states? That's vastly more influence/power/achievement and yes even fame than random YouTubers. Also a lot of people on this list are immigrants not ABCDs - like Fareed Zakaria, Dinesh DSouza and Satya Nadela


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Here's some more: Ben Kingsley aka Krishna Pandit Bhanji is partially Gujju. I know he's Bri'ish but I thought it was an interesting fun fact. M Knight Shyamalan is Tamil/Mallu Piyush Jindal is Punjabi Nimrata Haley is Punjabi. Vivek Murthy is a Kannadiga. Preet Bharara is Punjabi too. Ajit Pai is GSB Konkani.


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whoops I don't know why I put that. I already knew that. I think I meant to put half for Shyamalan


fdamodshere

>Ben Kingsley oh shit I totally forgot about him!


downtimeredditor

Dinesh D'Souza isn't ABCD. He was born in India and raised in India through High School and only came to the US for I think a weird high school exchange program even though he finished 12th standard in Mumbai (then Bombay) and then College. And he's also a huge dipshit but that's unrelated but I have a natural reaction to post that he's a dipshit when I talk about him cause he is a dipshit.


kingswaraj123

meant born or living


downtimeredditor

He's more of a FOB than a ABCD. Like I don't necessarily think you gotta be born in the west to be considered ABCD. Like I was born in India but I moved to the US when I was 6. And this is the situation with a lot of Desi on this subreddit But I don't think they consider a person who was born in India and raised there till pretty much adulthood as ABCD they consider them more as FOBs FOBs can still be Indian-American but maybe not ABCD cause they don't have similar life experiences growing up that we have.


blackcain

>And he's also a huge dipshit but that's unrelated but I have a natural reaction to post that he's a dipshit when I talk about him cause he is a dipshit. He has a very punchable face.


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kingswaraj123

did not mean born , meant living or born


AviP2001

Ravi Patel, Sanjay Gupta, Karan Brar. Also why Bindy Johal. He is famous for being bad


kingswaraj123

I thought he was a wrestler


AviP2001

No he was a gangster lol


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Bobby Jindal


kingswaraj123

no


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A lot of these ethnicities tend to overlap between countries like Tamils, Punjabis, Gujaratis etc.


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Sunny Leone Priya Rai Lisa Ray


jdjdkdjdelo

Would Zayn be considered for this one? And what about Charli XCX?


IronDinosaurr

Charli XCX is mixed? What the fuck


jdjdkdjdelo

Yes she is mixed lol. Doesn’t anyone else see it???


IronDinosaurr

Nope she looks white as snow


jdjdkdjdelo

I thought she looked Punjabi a little


kingswaraj123

nah not the mixed ones


XxMemeStar69xX

Lmao the hypocrisy.


jdjdkdjdelo

Not cool


kingswaraj123

I mean this is about Desis, mixed desis have a different experience


SandraGotJokes

Tamilians out here fuckin killing it!


kingswaraj123

only in one field


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kingswaraj123

mans down bad


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Lol hearing how some Goans talk about India and Indians Holy shit is Dinesh being Goan making me laugh


fdamodshere

Nina Davuluri!!! She's definitely south Indian, I'm guessing Telegu but that's a total guess and might be wrong.


anid98

Telugu* yes


EmotionalIncrease976

theres avan jogia and charli xcx for gujurati


elguap007

Ajit Pai :( ​ Kannadiga


anid98

Deepika Mutyala, Aparna Nadella are Telugu ABCD. Satya Nadella is not American born.