In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you’re a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn’t matter where you come from.
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Aasif Mandvi57 quotes“In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you’re a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn’t matter where you come from.”
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Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.
Aasif MandviAasif Mandvi I think family dynamics are definitely very interesting. And in my case my sister did get married. She gave my parents a grandchild.
Aasif MandviAasif Mandvi I don’t want to tell people what they should think.
Aasif MandviAasif Mandvi You do find a lot of your time in the West kind of searching for your place in the world – your voice, your identity, like, who am I? Like, what is my reason for being here, you know? And in that same way who am I to be partnered with, you know?
Aasif MandviAasif Mandvi Comedy can reach many more people than, say, a serious lecture on the topic. And comedy might just be the access point to reach people who want to be entertained and also learn something.
Aasif MandviAasif Mandvi Of course the law’s not racist.
Aasif MandviAasif Mandvi 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.
Aasif MandviAasif Mandvi England has an interesting relationship with the Indian subcontinent because the years of colonization and the history between the two places.
Aasif MandviAasif Mandvi 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.
Aasif MandviAasif Mandvi When I was 11 my friend’s mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, ‘I’m never eating anything else again.’ And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.
Aasif MandviAasif Mandvi When my family decided to leave England I could not have been happier. I was sort of like – America seemed like the land of opportunity and, you know, it was Hollywood to me.
Aasif MandviAasif Mandvi We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes.
Aasif MandviAasif Mandvi Statistically there is enough voter fraud to sway zero elections.
Aasif MandviAasif Mandvi 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 MandviAasif Mandvi 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.
Aasif MandviAasif Mandvi 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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