<p>Hey everyone! no reason why princeton should miss out on the desi thread, so here goes...
how many desis are applying to princeton? and ed or rd?</p>
<p>i'm rd</p>
<p>z00b is, ed</p>
<p>Rd, Currently A Senior</p>
<p>ED here </p>
<p>(grrr stoopid space restriction)</p>
<p>What's desi? what's with the word desi? Indian (the real Indian, not Native Americans) right? So can anyone tell me why they're called desis. Is this how I pronounce it? dez-eez? I don't know.</p>
<p>hey,</p>
<p>I am the original desi here
Applying Rd princeton</p>
<p>hobbes344, desi comes from the Hindi (I don't know if this is the word in Sanskrit) word for country, pronounced "des(h)"...Thus desi, pronounced something like "deshi" with the e having a e sound (like the accented "e" in french) is "one from the country," or one from India...the Asian India.</p>
<p>hahaha...major discrimination against us...anyone see the "mah WASP peeps" thread? </p>
<p>kisiko hindi aata hai?</p>
<p>this is fun...(anyone looking over from the "mah WASP peeps" thread...sorry, no meaning to offend...i just saw the desi thread on the harvard and columbia boards and didn't want princeton to feel left out...hence, i'm actually creating equality, not segregating :))</p>
<p>LAgal, don't worry.....ilcapo was just kidding (I, um, think)...he does that a lot and I'm often on the receving end for being a southerner/Bush supporter/non-RL and lacoste-wearing/non-prep school person....(how was that for a mouthful?!) So no prob.</p>
<p>Kebree, hahaha...i figured he was...southerners unite!</p>
<p>i heart this board!</p>
<p>I don't really like associating w/ fellow "Desis" partly because I'm not Hindu but in general, I think I tend to defy the typical Desi stereotype. That said, yes, I come from an Indian ancestry. (Although rumor has it I'm descended from a line of ancient Nubian kings...)</p>
<p>I'm the 'typical untypical' desi since I'm Catholic - but hey, still born in India.</p>
<p>Applyin' next year.</p>
<p>So now desi just means indian?</p>
<p>well thats kinda what i always thought it meant, but maybe im wrong (not that THAT's ever happened before)</p>
<p>An indian living abroad is a desi (ie not in India)</p>
<p>anyone seen American desi? i think it's just someone with the South Asian culture within their blood</p>
<p>The term is very inclusive - anyone from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka can be called a desi, whether in those countries or abroad. Doesn't just mean Indians living abroad.</p>
<p>kisiko hindi aata hai?</p>
<p>LOL. How long have you been in the US?</p>
<p>entire life...kya aapko aata hai?</p>
<p>ED desi rite here.</p>
<p><-- LAgal, I live here, so of course aati hai :p</p>
<p>Nice that you still managed to pick up Hindi</p>