Aasif Mandvi Quotes About Culture
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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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.
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Indian culture is essentially much more of a we culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
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The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
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