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I grew up on American pop culture so everything that I fantasized about to get out of this sort of humdrum world of Bradford was about America. So when we decided to move there I was on the plane.

Aasif Mandvi

Getting chased home from the bus stop after school by English kids, boarding school, being targeted for praying to what they call Allah wallah ding dong.
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Bus Chased English Getting Home Kid Praying Stop
It’s an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away.
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Analyze Away Going Try Trying Worry
From my parent’s generation the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love. It was a partnership. It’s about creating family. It’s about creating offspring.
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Creating Generation Idea Ideas Marriage Parent Romantic Love
England has an interesting relationship with the Indian subcontinent because the years of colonization and the history between the two places.
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Colonization Country Interesting Relationship Subcontinent Two Year
So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was — but I wanted to be there.
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America Complete Idea Unrealistic Wanted
I think you had the GOP down there in North Carolina reaching out to African-American voters and this guy coming on television and using the N-word and saying what Don Yelton said.
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African American Coming Guy Television Thinking
I mean, but obviously, in people’s eyes, it still – it can still link Islam to terrorism. I mean, why does it make a difference that they’re white?
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Difference Eye Mean Obviously People White
Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It’s already happening, and it’s hot!
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Children Future Hot Interest Love Making
Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.
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Court Doe Fraud Past Racism Supreme Voter
You can get samosas in any pub in England today, pretty much. So, “Gunga Din” has come back.
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Back Come England Pub Samosa Today
Now the bigots have to get creative. Good luck coming up with slurs for Chechens. Go back where you came from, Ushanka head.
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Bigot Chechen Committee Creative Good Luck
I’ve always said I’m the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that’s ever existed, because I’ve been inside more bars than mosques.
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Bar Existed Inside More Mosque Muslim
The idea that I had anything to do with speaking about Islam or about the Muslim world was just absurd to my family. … I hadn’t been to the mosque in like 10 years.
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Country Family Idea Islam World Year
I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it’s been something that I’ve always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
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Acting Comedy Conscious Done Stuff Theatre Thing
It is ironic that it doesn’t matter how successful I am in any other capacity. Ultimately, my parents marker is do you have a wife? And do you have children?
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Children Iconic Marker Successful Wife
I’m not really a food connoisseur.
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Connoisseur Food Really

I grew up on American pop culture so everything that I fantasized about to get out of this sort of humdrum world of Bradford was about America. So when we decided to move there I was on the plane.

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