It's an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because... by Aasif Mandvi

It's an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away.

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In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.

where-you-come matter views

I'm not really a food connoisseur. by Aasif Mandvi

I'm not really a food connoisseur.

connoisseur

I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.

pork holiday way

I was born in India - but never really lived there. by Aasif Mandvi

I was born in India - but never really lived there.

born india

I thought [when I was 16] my days were just going to be spent hanging out on a beach and my girlfriend was going to be Miss Teen USA and my best friend will be a dolphin.

usa girlfriend beach

For anybody who's ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used.

logic used violence

I know the Gospel according to Mark better than I know any sura i... by Aasif Mandvi

I know the Gospel according to Mark better than I know any sura in the Quran.

mark quran knows

The idea that I had anything to do with speaking about Islam or about the Muslim world was just absurd to my family. ... I hadn't been to the mosque in like 10 years.

islam years ideas

I think politicians and comedians have a lot in common. One is a group of approval-seeking narcissists who will say and do anything to be liked... and comedians are always talking about politics.

comedian talking thinking

America undermines its own ideals when it ignores the very values it is promoting around the world. You cannot ask other people in the world to follow the law and act responsibly if we don't do the same... and being afraid is not an excuse.

law america people

We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes.

pawns law father

For my parents it was all about getting a deal, my dad came to America and he heard of this concept of brunch. He didn't quite know what it was. And he thought it was this other meal that existed between breakfast and lunch. He was kind of like - I remember he sort of was like America has so much food that between breakfast and lunch they have to stop and eat again. They have brunch. It was completely legal it was, like, a legal meal that you could have. I mean, clearly it wasn't the only reason he came to America, but I think it certainly sweetened the pot for him.

dad mean thinking

I said we are Ghodratis and there's nothing that Ghodratis like m... by Aasif Mandvi

I said we are Ghodratis and there's nothing that Ghodratis like more than a bargain.

bargains said

You can get samosas in any pub in England today, pretty much. So,... by Aasif Mandvi

You can get samosas in any pub in England today, pretty much. So, "Gunga Din" has come back.

pubs england today

Re-colonizing it and sort of reverse-colonizing it to the point that today the national dish of Great Britain is Chicken Tikka Masala.

dishes chickens today

England has an interesting relationship with the Indian subcontinent because the years of colonization and the history between the two places.

two years interesting

From my parent's generation the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love. It was a partnership. It's about creating family. It's about creating offspring.

creating romantic-love ideas

Indian culture is essentially much more of a we culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.

indian-culture community culture

In America, you have this kind of individualism and in the West, essentially, you have this individualism - this idea of my own personal fulfillment.

west america ideas

There's this existential crisis in America and in the West of, like - who am I? - based on this searching for individual fulfillment, which you don't necessarily have in the East in the same way because you're kind of told what to do. I'm not saying one is better than the other, I'm just saying that's just, like, the reality.

east reality america