Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Considering TBBT's Rajesh - In The Eyes Of East Indians

By Daniel Turbin


On the sitcom The Big Bang Theory, the everyday life of five close friends are highlighted - four men and also a woman.

Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter share a rental apartment and neighboring them is Penny's place. Howard Wolowitz and Rajesh (Raj) Koothrappali are coworkers with Leonard and Sheldon at a university. The men are simply speaking geeks but geniuses, specifically uncomfortable around females yet highly educated. Penny is the opposite being a cliche blond who is beautiful yet not too sharp. Penny has got a good heart and grew to become close friends with the four guys shortly when she moved into her neighboring apartment.

In The Big Bang Theory, Rajesh Koothrappali is an East Indian who's represented as someone who is unable to talk with girls, except in cases where he is drinking. He is also shown as being highly intelligent but sometimes bullied around by others. Raj has had a handful of romantic relationships, private and laid-back, with young women. Raj is very in contact with his feminine side. He talks with his mom and dad through a webcam since they're in India.

Lots of Rajesh Koothrappali's habits in TBBT are not really approved of by folks from India. East Indians may see him as being a rebel, a defiant son and far from what a good Indian man should be like. An East Indian man should be extremely strong, able to control and command his home, capable of getting a girl effortlessly, and be especially respectful to his mother and father. Above all, East Indian men ought to get married to a woman of his dad and mom's selection or at a minimum an East Indian woman who is from the same religion as his mom and dad. Raj has none of these types of characteristics. East Indians would probably see this as utter dishonor.

American born Indians would probably see Raj as a possible inspiration. Not necessarily because of his bashfulness and awkwardness with women but as a result of his courage with not following traditional Indian cultural norms. Some Americans from Indian descent wouldn't have as much respect for Indian traditions as an Indian born will because they will be substantially swayed by Western cultural norms.




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