Hari Kondabolu- South Indian Pride at Unification 2012

Hari Kondabolu discusses being South Indian in America at Unification 2012 at Nuyorican Poets Cafe on August 12th, 2012.

[@HariKondaboluOfficial]

I never reply on here because I would rather people have these conversations without me...but I absolutely DID NOT remove any of your comments. They have provoked an interesting discussion and I wanted people to see them. I may not completely agree with you, but they deserve to be heard.

[@user-tw2nc3fv7z]

Hari Kondabolu love your racism jokes/reality. I wonder how I didn't notice you so lately. Another thing my surname is also Kondabolu don't know why.

[@agnunni]

Hari Kondabolu your observations are spot on man! 🙌🏾

[@sabrishgopalakrishnan5156]

#USSI

[@yugalsharan]

Always enjoyed your content Hari. Just thought of sharing it with you. Ravan & his wife were North Indian. Best wishes to you in your life. Be well.

[@joshuachandra6677]

wow this is the realest I've ever seen Hari

[@aravind414]

Hari, came across your Apu video on FB, then started to watch your videos on KZbin and subscribed, you are awesome. Before this I have never heard of you in the standup or amongst any famous standup comedians. Your comedy is insightful, glad I didn’t fail to notice your comedy. All the best in your endeavours

[@sandygill9550]

i'm punjabi and i loved this. so brilliant

[@haamsaavenikumar7262]

Proud to be South Indian!

[@nnbhatt86]

I was going to reply to your other comment too, but it's gone. Anyway, I think people from all over India have contributed to our ethnic identity, and totally agree about how awesome south indian dance and murthis are, and how great Tagore's poetry is.

[@nycmac95]

he just described my freaking childhood!!

[@gauravsolanki4794]

I have to say only South Indians have preserved Indian & Hindu culture along with Modernity, else every state got some kinda swag. :p

[@rickpgriffin]

This short clip taught me more about Indian culture than 18 years of schooling

[@kittycattenborough1172]

I used to live with a South Indian family. They would give me food, and I would just sit there wondering how to eat it. They'd look at me and say, "...your...your hands. You use your hands." I have never felt so white in all my existence. The kicker being? I'm an Australian Aboriginal. I'm not even white.

[@Sahanax3]

This is actually my life.

[@BronzeSista]

Hari you have a great sense of humor. What's strange to me is most Indians from the South always say "we Indians in the South are the darker ones. It makes me think there are two separate Indian worlds "North and South"

[@Vivaswan]

cultural differences, like New York and Georgia.

[@TheManOnTheStreetOMG]

Theres diversity in so many countries and cultures that peeople dont know about. Its just fascinating to learn about their history, why those differences exist and where they originate.

[@vineflower]

Absolutely....

[@varunreddy9578]

its culturally diverse but nationality wise they get united with india. just like americans states with diverse unite to fom USA

[@nycmac95]

do more jokes like this it's great! something new that I think alot of south indians can relate to!

[@indiansupremacy6743]

Nothing gives you more pride than being Dravidian. We are the best and deserve to be treated with utmost respect.

[@KimmimaruSai]

Not even indian and I got all the references, hilarious.

[@ChrisSamuel1729]

That's actually impressive

[@alienkishorekumar]

Amazing!

[@TexasRo]

Brilliant Hari

[@virgillevinger]

So awesome.

[@akilmodee]

Very impressive!

[@user-ue3xj3pw8d]

To be fair though Rama was dark skinned along with Krishna and Draupadi in the Hindu epics. It's like the Ramayan and the Mahabharat could foresee colourism in the future hahaa

[@likithsingh7694]

to be fair, he said north indian brothers not two white or fair skinned brothers. I'm pretty sure he knows how ram looks

[@akashsingh4005]

@@likithsingh7694 so do you know that ravan was a northie too

[@shabadu84]

it's not a history report, it's a comedy show

[@11FBA11]

awesome.

[@dirtcheapdisco]

hahahaha 'takataka and all that shit' reading books when bhangra comes on i'm punjabi and i dance. but i'd be slyly checking out the bookish moustachioed south indian at the back of this party

[@42Tesla]

LOL I was eating rice with my hands while watching this

[@GymnopedieTornado]

@ThaSoulFya Hey, would you mind reposting it? Kinda curious. It's a big difference between saying that

[@nnbhatt86]

No I agree...no one should have to or feel compelled to. For me its more about whether we should celebrate the differences as differences, or different strands of the same ethnic identity. I think that's a harder question.

[@nnbhatt86]

You and I are born and brought up in the West. I speak Gujarati and can understand Hindi, and some Punjabi words. The thing is, they are all closely related languages, whereas Tamil Telegu, etc. are a lot more distantly related. If you think understanding Hindi is hard, you'll probably find South Indian languages impossible. I agree that there is a lot of variation, and also strongly believe that there is a unity to our diversity. BUT, mallus and marathis have less in common than mallus and tams

[@LadyStardust241]

Not to nitpick...but dandiya raas (aka "those little sticks") are Gujarati which is in western India, not North India.

[@jaggujanga3345]

Depends on the perspective. From MP, Gujarat is Western India. From Chennai, it is the North. Even culturally, Gujarati culture is part of the wider North Indian group. Everything North of the Vindhyas is.

[@nycmac95]

he needs to have a special

[@nnbhatt86]

Gujarat is still in the northern half of India, and in a sense can more easily adapt and integrate aspects of Punjabi culture, partly because the languages are similar. Most Gujarati's can speak Hindi. and are able to understand some Punjabi words at the very least. Also, Bollywood often does songs Punjabi-style. I agree with you about the dealing with concepts of being Indian being shoved down our throats, but it is probably worse for South Indians.

[@rapparbob8984]

umadbro?

[@josh-cq3ju]

FUNNY!

[@nycmac95]

another one that is

[@KohakuMatsuda]

I can't stop laughing. XD

[@zohaq9256]

WE GOT IDLI

[@VivekRamadoss]

I am Tamil, and I agree that the North Indians tend to stereotype South Indians as second class citizens. Just watch Chennai Express. But on the other hand Tamilians tend to be pretty coincided and like to think that they are the source of everything good in the world. It goes both ways. I think a lot of it is related to the idiotic/racist idea that fairer skin is directly proportional to ones' attractiveness.

[@hiphopghost1]

no man. I don't think so. In fact South Indian film Industry is more racist in that manner. Almost every single Tamil movie has a Fair looking Lead actor and Dark and Fat looking Lunga wearing villains

[@varunreddy9578]

are u from 80's or what didn't u seen any recent tollywood,kollywood,mollywood,sandalwood movies. no villan in real world be like stylist actors. its a movie character that demands the particular type of looking guy. first protect bollywood from selling to pakistanis. learn from south indian film makers who take only indian actors and develop movies with high end tech's

[@adi87tya86]

Even in South India and among South Indians there is color discrimination against dark skinned people. It's ironic.

[@likithsingh7694]

North Indians have misconceptions and take others granted but they don't treat south Indians as Second class citizens, it is wrong to think that way

[@eugenedebbs2189]

@@hiphopghost1 Really? Which Tamil movie protagonist is fair skinned lmao? Dhanush, Surya, Vijay, Vijay Sethupathy, Vishnu Vishal, Udhayanidhi Stalin, Sivakarthikeyan, Jai, Atharva, Vishal, Rajinikanth, etc are all dark skinned. And the antagonists in Tamil movies tend to be quite fair skinned actors like Neil Nitin Mukesh (Kaththi), Vidyut Jammwal (Thuppaki), Sonu Sood (Osthi) etc.

[@mansibisht6768]

bro Ravana was also from north

[@deepsingh87]

This is funny.

[@heresapollo]

Hey I'm a Punjabi and I don't dance to Bhangra either!

[@hiphopghost1]

no that's not what North Indians think of South Indians. Rama was dark/brown skinned. Ravana was from Sri Lanka.. Tamilians were beaten by Sinhals over there. Sri Lanka isn't even a Hindu country, they're mostly Buddhists. And South Indian movies portray fair looking people as Protagonist and Darker ones as the villains.

[@hiphopghost1]

+Adhityaa Gowthaman I'm not talking about history. I'm taking about recent events. Tamilians and Sinhals fought recently in the past few decades.

[@hiphopghost1]

+Adhityaa Gowthaman and it's not a theory.. Read history books. Tamil and Sinhals have fought for long time in the past few decades. I'm talking about modern day Sri Lanka.

[@user-tw2nc3fv7z]

Priyam last few decades tamilians fought seriously you say tamilians not Indians that represents you as "North Indian". And if they fought Tamil will win obviously get your facts corrected can't you see tamilians in Singapore and Malaysia how do you think they get there.

[@SilverSkitty]

Yessss northern roast

[@weedhound2443]

Since when do Punjabi's not eat with their hands?

[@mode3517]

If you're an indian guido you don't.

[@varunreddy9578]

he's talking of 2nd gen american punjabis

[@manpreet2966]

Since always

[@businessgoop]

mohan lal

[@varunreddy9578]

what u said atlast was false,never say what u dont have proof of.but every CEO who makes indian proud is south indian.and all south indian feel proud of tech and are tech warriors almost every one, north indian politicians have create BIMARU states,south indians created a silicon valley and connected indian cities to USA tech cities in a closer manner.every south indian family has 1 guy with family in america.almost half of educated people go to govt tech jobs,rest leave for america,rest create startups

[@eugenedebbs2189]

Some generalisations there. (every south indian family has 1 guy with family in America). That should translate to roughly 40 million South Indian guys in America as the population of South Indians in India is 250 million. The entire population of USA is about 330 million and only about 5 million of them are Indians.

[@nnbhatt86]

On the other hand, I've noticed anecdotally that South Indian "high" culture definitely gets a lot of respect from people all over India, especially among Hindus. For example, the spread of Bharatnatyam as a classical art form throughout India, and the preference of South Indian murthis as art pieces. What Hindu household doesn't have a nataraja, for example?

[@KuthaJuice]

Rofl "they colonized you up here son"

[@azsli2]

saw you on totally bias

[@alienkishorekumar]

LOL.

[@TheHarharmahadev]

Ravana was North Indian .. not south indian

[@ptrips1]

Yes, that's why they have entire temples for him in the South and none in the North.

[@CiceroSpeaketh]

ptrips1 Yea, but there are temples dedicated to him in Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, etc. Get your facts straight.

[@ptrips1]

CiceroSpeaketh looked it up, you're right. Any idea if the significance of Ravana worship in the North is any way different from that in the South? Also, ancient Ravana statues have been found and are present as far as South East Asia!

[@jbrooksci]

+CiceroSpeaketh there are temples to Ravana? And people worship him? Still? I had no clue. If this is true, do you know their reasoning?

[@goddamnthedamned]

+julie b Coz he was awesome! I don't know why people would burn the effigy of the man who was ten times smarter than the smartest a man could be. There's a bit at the end when Ravana is dying and he reveals that the reason he kidnapped Sita was because he knew Ram would destroy whoever did such a thing and to die at the hand of god guaranteed realisation to the soul. So he thought why be selfish and realize the true nature of the soul alone by my penance, why not ensure that my subjects achieve realization too? And so he kidnapped Sita. That's pretty smart if you ask me.

[@swaliulHaque]

yes i accept you are intellectual but some of the north indian communities are business minded like punjabi,sindhi,marwari,jain,baniya,gujrati,parsi Ashok Leyland in south started by punjabi and currently own by sindhis, wipro and many more there are more than 80 north indian out of 100 richest people of india we have more than 80% of the mineral reserve of india we are the only source of gold,uranium (Jharkhand) in india if some of our people working there then some of our people had also given something you are using our minerals for your development i accept that there were some discrimination were done in past by some muddle headed people we are now don't think anything like this and you are doing the same so don't think of being superior stop spreading hates be mature we all are same

[@alienkishorekumar]

Just proud? Why? I'm south Indian and I'm neither proud to be South Indian or Indian.

[@GRAMMARtonCleric]

Proper punctuation and grammar. Acquaint yourself with it.