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Azalik ez — Ankit Shukla: I Love You, Apu (2021, Lit Genius Publishing)

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2021ko abe. 15a(e)an Lit Genius Publishing(e)n argitaratua.

ISBN:: 978-1-953515-08-7

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Stereotypes exist is our society amongst all groups. Most of them do exist for areason and hold much truth. Some are certainly unfair, untrue or blown out ofproportion. As a person of East Indian descent, I have come head on with stereotypesmy entire life. The biggest one being the character portrayed by Apu from theSimpsons. Apu is a typical East Indian, who immigrated to the United States and nowowns his own convenience store. He also speaks with a typical Indian Accent. Anyonewho has walked into enough convenience stores around the country knows that a largenumber of them are run by people of Indian Descent. There is nothing wrong withnoticing that. However, even though it seems to be a common stereotype, some peoplehave a problem with it. One of them being Hari Kondabolu, who expresses hisfrustrations with the Character in his documentary, “The Problem With Apu”.In “I Love You, Apu”, I …

Stereotypes exist is our society amongst all groups. Most of them do exist for areason and hold much truth. Some are certainly unfair, untrue or blown out ofproportion. As a person of East Indian descent, I have come head on with stereotypesmy entire life. The biggest one being the character portrayed by Apu from theSimpsons. Apu is a typical East Indian, who immigrated to the United States and nowowns his own convenience store. He also speaks with a typical Indian Accent. Anyonewho has walked into enough convenience stores around the country knows that a largenumber of them are run by people of Indian Descent. There is nothing wrong withnoticing that. However, even though it seems to be a common stereotype, some peoplehave a problem with it. One of them being Hari Kondabolu, who expresses hisfrustrations with the Character in his documentary, “The Problem With Apu”.In “I Love You, Apu”, I challenge what Hari says and provide a rebuttal to what hediscusses in his Documentary. I give my own opinion as to why I believe that Apu isnot only an accurate stereotype, but a positive one as well. There needs to be adiffering viewpoint given by someone with a similar background and I am here to dothat with this very book. You may agree with me or with Hari. What matters most isthat we share our opinions and have open dialogue. While Hari challenges thestereotype, I am here to defend it. Enjoy the different viewpoints.

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One East Indian's defense of Apu from the Simpsons

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This brief book (more of an essay really) was written to respond to the documentary "The Problem with Apu" by comic Hari Kondabolu. As you can guess by the documentary title, Hari has a problem with Apu, in fact several. But Shukla does not feel that all of them are fair criticisms, so he took time from writing his usual fare to respond in this short book. Shukla makes the point that Apu is far from a hateful negative stereotype, he is a hard working immigrant that runs his own business and, as shown in the many episodes that focus on him, he also leads a well rounded life with his own challenges and problems to overcome. I won't go into a complete analysis of Shukla's argument here. The book is only 39 pages, so I encourage you to get his argument in his own voice.

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