How are you most different or most like the stereotype of your demographics?

In My Humble Opinion
21

27 female, straight, Indian, attorney

Like:

  1. I’ll admit to being unreasonably pampered and spoiled. My parents paid for a lot of my education and I have only to say “it’s educationally related” and they’ll sign over a check.

  2. Probably a bit on the repressed side with a lot of guilt over everything

  3. Occassionally stink of curry and love spicy food

  4. Parents have Indian accent that I can peg exactly to the delight of all of my friends

  5. Everyone in my family understands math and science really well (I’m the worst member in this respect but even my abilities are pretty strong, I just don’t like the subjects), 1/2 my family are physicians, the other half are in engineering.

  6. I tend to date Indian men almost exclusively

  7. I tend to go along with what my parents want. That filial piety thing is hard to shake off

  8. I’m an idolatrous polytheist who accepts evolution and is politically liberal

  9. I wear bindis, have a nose ring and am usually festooned with gold jewellry

Unlike:

  1. I am not a doctor or engineer, although I think the appeal of my profession is increasing amongst ABCD kids

  2. I didn’t major in anything remotely related to science

  3. My parents are not trying to arrange my marriage, nor do they care if I eventually settle down with an American who is not Indian

  4. I don’t give in to my parents all the time

  5. I don’t live with them either

  6. I don’t have a lot of coconutty angst about my heritage. I’ve been dragged all over the place so I’m comfortable with the fact that I only ever have half a foot in the predominant culture of wherever I’m living

  7. I don’t fit in very well with Indian kids my age.

  8. Despite having a very strict upbringing I didn’t go crazy once I got out from under my parents’ thumbs so they were probably wasting their time

  9. My parents handed everything to me on a platter and I grew up very priviliged but I don’t fit the stereotype of the spoiled child who squandered her education because she didn’t pay for it and is constantly battling a drug addiction and mooching off of her parents and maybe if my parents had thrown me out of the house at 18 I wouldn’t be a complete failure blahdeblah. Nope, financially stable, never tried any classified substances and I give back to my family because I’m grateful for what I got and want to return the favour.

22

Straight twenty-something geeky male from Vermont.

Most like:

Straight male - I love the ladies, and I also love breasts.

Twenty something - I like things from the 80’s. Not everything, but probably an unhealty amount of things. Some of those things are music…that I listen to on my iPod.

Geek - Built my own computer and have some neato LED fans and what have you. I love roleplaying, video games, and sciencey things.

Vermonter - I’m fairly liberal, I support gay-marriage, I love maple syrup, I think gun control is stupid (hey, I said fairly liberal.) I love Magic Hat beer, and even drive a Subaru.

Most unlike:

Straight male - I love to cook and am quite good at it.

Twenty something - I’m not glued to my cell phone. I have about three or four calls a week (that’s outgoing and incoming.) I don’t text message much at all.

Geek - I actually enjoy going out sometimes. I don’t really like math. I’ve never read The Lord of the Rings or anything by Asimov.

Vermonter - I am not any kind of hippie, “granola head,” or what have you. I don’t ski, snowboard, snowshoe, or snowmobile. I have smoked pot a total of three times.

23

Straight white ethnic-Jewish male raised in Southern California and currently attending community college.

Most like:

Jewish: I’m a tightwad, I worry about money, and I freak out about money more easily than the average Gentile. I have multiple bank accounts and although I can be very impulsive when spending under $10 (this gets me in more trouble than you’d think), anything more and I spend a lot of time analyzing the purchase heavily. I couldn’t care less about supernatural beings in the sky. I used my Bar Mitzvah as a Get Out of Judaism Free card. My life revolves around school. Been to Israel and loved it. My SAT scores were godly.

White male under 20: I’ve tested more substances than the FDA. I listen to heinous noise and I set the volume to Wanton Ear Cilia Destruction in my car. I masturbate. A lot. I enjoy drinking, although I don’t do it often. I dance horribly but when I do dance (which is extremely rare) I’m too drunk to care.

College student: I’m always stocked on No-Doz. I do the (Straight) Dope instead of doing my homework. I have perfected the art of getting straight A’s by doing the least amount of work possible. That’s a point towards Jewish too, now that I think about it.

Southern Californian: It’s very difficult for me to transition from driving my car every day to using public transportation (for fiscal reasons; see above). Many of my friends are gay, bi, or confused. Most of my high school friends were gay, bi, or confused. I was in my high school’s Gay-Straight Association. I’m a liberal and I’m for complete legalization (ie, you can buy a baggie at K-Mart) of prostitution and all drugs. I speak Spanish and have dated an illegal immigrant. I love sushi and Mexican food. Every freeway begins with “The”. I hate country music with a passion. I’ve smoked meth and enjoyed it. (OK, that’s a San Diego thing.) Pinko liberal, pro-choice, pro-gay-marriage, pro-free-speech, anti-religion.

Most unlike:

Jewish: I barely graduated from high school, only applied to one university (which

White male under 20/College student: I don’t own an iPod, I don’t take naps, and I’ve never played a drinking game. I don’t drink much coffee. I don’t smoke pot anymore.

Southern Californian: I am an opponent of marijuana decriminalization and medical marijuana; I feel they cause legal problems that we could solve once and for all with total legalization. I hate the Lakers with a passion. I have only a very vague idea of how my car works. I have no desire to serve in the Navy or Coast Guard, ever. (OK, that’s a San Diego thing.)

I haven’t followed the team since the ECHL, but back in the WCHL days you and I both know they were dinner for the Gulls every night.

24

What on earth is an ABCD kid?

25

American Born Confused Desi. It’s not exactly a slur, but it’s a condescending categorisation of the internal conflict supposedly suffered by Indian kids raised in the US. Most often used by our brethren directly from the mothership, I mean LAND.

26

Lesbian Minnesotan (although transplanted, I feel like this is my homeland!) Middle-aged…

Like:
Liberal to a blinding degree
Love the outdoors
Used to play softball, and bowled a lot
Live with more animals than humans
Short hair, no dresses, no makeup, sensible shoes
Good with my extensive tool collection

Unlike:
I don’t hunt or fish
I don’t own a boat
I’m a major carnivore
I don’t go to bars
I love flower arranging, home decorating and fanciful clothes
Most of my friends are straight, even though there is a vibrant gay community here.

27

First-generation Asian

Most like: Studying, good at math and science, fairly reserved, not all that atheletic, expected to become a doctor, play piano, going to attend Ivy League school, like Chinese food.

Most unlike: Enjoy English and history, neither Christian nor Buddhist, no accent, although I can do a fairly good impression, and I don’t actually know that much about Chinese culture.

28

Korean girl, straight, raised in the States but now living in Seoul

Like: I certainly LOOK like the stereotypical Asian girl - small, almond-shaped eyes, straight black hair. Was a straight A student for most of my life. Grew up under overbearing parents and am still pretty much the obedient Korean daughter. It’s something I can’t seem to grow out of, unfortunately.

Unlike: I suck at Math - English always was and always will be my best subject. I dislike so many things about Korean culture that my friends jokingly call me racist. I’m not that into kimchi. I hate Korean pop songs and most Korean movies. I am a fantasy geek. My family is Catholic but I lean more towards Paganism. You couldn’t get me to own anything Hello Kitty-ish at gunpoint. I speak both English and Korean with equal fluency and don’t have an accent either way.