What's So Funny About The Indian Accent?
Episode 27 min 54s

What's So Funny About The Indian Accent?

From Code Switch NPR
From Apu to Ashton Kutcher, mimicking the Indian accent is still widely seen as fair game. Even lots of ABCD's — American-born confused desis — do it. But is it out of love, or mockery? Code Switch's Tasneem Raja talks to Indians with and without accents on what "Thank you, come again" means to them.

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