Calling all desis, everyone come...

<p>Just wondering, in all of your schools do you have a big indian population? Do you hang out with other indians?</p>

<p>In my school there are quite a few indians, all of us are friends but we arent like we only are friends with other indians.</p>

<p>in the phoenix metro area, there are only 11,000 or so Indians to 3 mil total, but it feels like a lot more because it consists of several massive webs where everyone knows a lot of people, who themselves know a lot of other people, and so on. My school has one of the largest concentration of Indians/South Asians- at least 30-50 out of 2800 students, but there may be more I don't know.</p>

<p>I personally have 2 sets of friends- Indians and non Indians. Its not that the other Indians dont have lots of other friends, its just that they are mostly 1-3 years younger than me (1987 must not have been a very popular year for desis to have kids), so their friends are different from mine.</p>

<p>there are like NO other indians where i live...its an extremely white populated area...i sometimes consider myself white, its funny...kinda like an oreo.</p>

<p>To shoo_shakin,
My thread title meant that every desi should come, not all the white people or other racial group. Sorry for the ambiguity.</p>

<p>bumpish.....</p>

<p>one more time...</p>

<p>"kinda like an oreo."</p>

<p>lol my relatives think I am soo white-washed! (But I'm NOT!!) They call me "coconut!" =p</p>

<p>I'm not indian (sorry) but I have always been fascinated by your culture hehe :) my mom's from malaysia so I got a lot of cultural exposure. :P</p>

<p>bande mataram!</p>

<p>From Kerala here, born and raised in NY
I can speak Malayalam fluently, which seems to surprise many people who don't expect to hear an American kid speak their language (which, I agree, is a rarity). I didn't even notice it was cool to be able to switch from Malayalam to English easily until people started wondering how I did it.</p>

<p>Indian food every day is great :D</p>

<p>White represent!...i think they don't know what zhindabaad means...who agrees?</p>

<p>fellow ABCD joining the board...gujarat all the way! 10 desis at my school, best friends w/one...pretty close w/most of others
completely in touch w/culture</p>

<p>i love all these desi threads on every forum...good showing...!!!...i'm from u.p...moved to the u.s 3 years ago...go to a small public school with only 3 other indians in my grade...friends with all three...i'm really proud of my group of friends though..indian..chinese..bangladeshi...nigerian...a lot of representation...</p>

<p>The sad thing at my school is that there are so many indian guys but very few indians girls. Well atleast a few of the indians girls that are at my school are kinda hot. What bout you other guys out there?</p>

<p>Hey I am from California. a junior in highschool and want to do medicine sometime in the future. Came to US in 8th grade from AP(Andhra Pradesh). </p>

<p>There aren't many indian girls in my school but I know a lot from my local temple.</p>

<p>I go to an all boys school, you guys have no right to complain</p>

<p>we have no hot indian girls. we have 2 indian girls tho but they're not hot. they're busy taking 9 aps.</p>

<p>lol why is there such a stereotype of the indian kids in your grades...i think its kinda amusing actually, like wrathofgod64 said..."they're busy taking 9 aps"
because even though i do take a lot of aps and hard classes...i still always find time for partying and concerts and just hanging out....so just to inform you, we're all NOT like that! lol</p>

<p>Jat punjaban living in Ca</p>

<p>oh and at our school its like what wrathofgod complained about except with boys at my school</p>

<p>paki =)... but raised in USA... i want to major in Biology or some type of science. </p>

<p>who has strict parents... raise ur hands. </p>

<p><em>raises hand</em></p>