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Anon has second thoughts about marriage (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 158 points 6 months ago

Not directly relevant but whenever I consume Indian media, I’m struck by how utterly foreign it feels. I watch a Chinese show? I see where it comes from. Mexican? Through line found. French? I understand the satire. Indian social norms and cultural development seem either so idiosyncratic or novel that they sincerely take me out. They, as a people and a nation, befuddle me in such a unique way. This isn’t a critique, just someone looking from the outside with curiosity and confusion.

[-] 11181514@lemmy.world 142 points 6 months ago

Chinese media: everything is perfect in an uncanny valley sort of way

Mexican media: drugs, Jesus, boobs, or cartels

French media: like a student film with a budget

Indian media: this guy just punched a car so hard it turned into a transformer, then he turned into a transformer, then they fought and now everyone's dancing

[-] DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

Sauce? I'd like to know more about these transformers. Thanks!

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 19 points 6 months ago

Enthiran

But I can highly recommend RRR instead

[-] 11181514@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

I swear to god I was just making shit up. I actually described a real movie?! That's hilarious!

[-] Pirky@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

Bollywood

[-] admin@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago

Mexican media: drugs, Jesus, boobs, or cartels

Also cooking shows and kitchen stuff.

[-] Lath@kbin.social 44 points 6 months ago

You're seeing India as a whole, but you gotta split it into pieces. It's a melting pot of ethnicities that exist disharmoniously. Unlike China where the Han Chinese pretty much wiped out most of their extended family over the course of centuries by way of brutal warfare and discrimination, India managed to retain some familial morality where everyone lives together while hating each other.
It's a similar, yet different path of evolution.

China - There is no war in Ba Sing Se.
India - Bloody bitch bastard bloody
USA - Murika, fuck yeah!

And yes, I am talking out of my ass.

[-] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

USA - Murika, fuck yeah!

We do also have sensationalist films like "Supersize Me"

[-] morphballganon@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

This is precisely why Ms. Marvel felt so weird to me. I felt like certain parts kept those novel ideas, and other parts were adjusted for an American audience, and the two didn't mesh at all.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

Where do you access/find foreign media?

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

Mostly through friends but occasionally Netflix. Between film buffs and immigrant families, it’s a smorgasbord. Picking something out for myself, I’ll check justwatch first to determine whether I need to look elsewhere and dbzero has guides on elsewhere. Check their wiki to find far more information than I can offer. Over a 5.1 or under a 3.0 on imdb and the genre are about all that I check, so I’m not great at recommending anything to watch. I did enjoy pee mak as a Scary Movie styled comedy, though.

[-] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 60 points 6 months ago

This is such a fucked situation I hope it's not real

[-] kingaloo@lemmy.world 68 points 6 months ago

Sadly this is pretty common

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago 
And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself in another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife
And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"
...
And you may ask yourself, "How do I work this?"
And you may ask yourself, "Where is that large automobile?"
And you may tell yourself, "This is not my beautiful house"
And you may tell yourself, "This is not my beautiful wife"

Same as it ever was

[-] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

And you may say to yourself "My God, what have I done!"

[-] Midnight1938@reddthat.com 0 points 6 months ago

Fake news

[-] VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Look up honour killings if you seriously think it could be fake.

[-] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 48 points 6 months ago

Come out as gay, only option left

[-] weeahnn@lemmy.world 58 points 6 months ago

Anon comes out as gay.

Parents actually accept him, and the whole marriage thing is off.

Parents now want anon to marry a guy he never met.

Anon can't get a break.

[-] ArachnidMania@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I’m pretty sure I remember reading that identical plot of relationshipadvice on the site-that-shall-not-be-named. 90% chance it was fake but the ending was a nice read with the guy realizing he’s bi, and actually hits it off with one of the guys his mom picks.

[-] spiderman@ani.social 36 points 6 months ago

guess anon's parents sold him for a huge dowry

[-] Midnight1938@reddthat.com 2 points 6 months ago

They do have the kids talk before marriage. Anons stupid

[-] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 33 points 6 months ago

Imagine placing your worth on being with another person. Too much cultural pressure for shit that came about in medieval/ancient times shouldn't be ruining people of today's lives.

Then again we still have holy wars so maybe same shit different era 🤷‍♂️

Shitty if true, but if this isn't would not doubt situations like this occur.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Uh, so males have existed for quite a long time, and it is a fact that without a female, a male is not going to reproduce.

Reproduction is supported by instinct as a result of evolution by natural selection. In short, the instinct to find value in reproduction is deep, and old. And not from medieval culture.

[-] mvirts@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago

T t t t talk to her about it :P gotta put in the work to build a relationship with someone. Don't assume she's ignorant just because she's ignoring it.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world -5 points 6 months ago

Indians are passive. They don't make change; they wait for it to be made for them.

[-] girl@sopuli.xyz 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Congrats! You’ve earned my “least intellectual comment of the day” award! You can pick it up if you go attend a world history class, any of them would probably make you realize how stupid your comment was

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Great! I can't wait to... Hey!

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Oh yeah a world history class. Perfect place to pick up cultural knowledge 🙄

[-] OmenAtom@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago

What is "the needful sir"

[-] Tum@lemmy.world 46 points 6 months ago

it's a quite common phrase in indo-english, "please do the needful" which means like, please do whatever is necessary.

[-] Dadifer@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

I swear, I always feel like someone is asking me to use the bathroom.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

It does sound like a euphemism

[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

But what does he mean by this? I have not done the needful sir? What is he referring to? Like consummation?

[-] FlorianSimon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

He hasn't thought it it through?

[-] mako@lemmy.today 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

*Please do the needful" is how some people from India end work emails where native English speakers might write, "Sincerely." It's a direct translation from Hindi where the intended meaning gets lost in translation. The intent is to ask for help or information.

[-] ladicius@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

Get a vasectomy. Make her go to work and earn money.

[-] VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Gotta make some muthafucking money.

this post was submitted on 28 Dec 2023
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