By Daniel Turbin
In the show The Big Bang Theory, the activities of five friends are highlighted - four men and a woman.
Sheldon and Leonard share a rental apartment and neighboring them is Penny's place. Howard and Rajesh (Raj) are coworkers with Sheldon and Leonard at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. The men are generally speaking nerdy but geniuses, specifically uncomfortable with women yet highly educated. Penny is the reverse being a stereotypical blond who is sexy but not too intelligent. Penny also has got a sensitive nature and became close friends with the four guys rather quickly when she moved into her neighboring apartment.
In The Big Bang Theory (or TBBT), Rajesh (Raj) Koothrappali is an East Indian who is portrayed as someone who literally is not able to talk to females, except in cases where he is drinking. He is also presented as highly intelligent but often bullied by others. Rajesh has had a few relationships, intimate and casual, with North American young women. He is also very in touch with his feminine side. Raj talks with his folks through a webcam since they're in India.
Many of Raj Koothrappali's manners in The Big Bang Theory are not really approved of by folks from India. Folks from India could see him as a rebel, a wayward son and certainly not what a good Indian man should be like. An East Indian man should be really assertive, able to dictate and command his family, able to get a woman easily, and be exceptionally respectful to his dad and mom. Most importantly, Indian men should certainly get married to a woman of his mother's or father's choosing or at a minimum an Indian woman who is from the same religion as his mother and father. Rajesh (Raj) Koothrappali has none of these kinds of traits. East Indians would see this as total disobedience.
Americans from Indian ancestry may look at Rajesh as an an example. Not really due to his shyness and awkwardness towards women but as a result of his nerve in not following traditions from India. Some Indian Americans will not have the same amount of reverence for native Indian traditions as an Indian born might because he would be substantially affected by the Euro-American way of life.
Sheldon and Leonard share a rental apartment and neighboring them is Penny's place. Howard and Rajesh (Raj) are coworkers with Sheldon and Leonard at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. The men are generally speaking nerdy but geniuses, specifically uncomfortable with women yet highly educated. Penny is the reverse being a stereotypical blond who is sexy but not too intelligent. Penny also has got a sensitive nature and became close friends with the four guys rather quickly when she moved into her neighboring apartment.
In The Big Bang Theory (or TBBT), Rajesh (Raj) Koothrappali is an East Indian who is portrayed as someone who literally is not able to talk to females, except in cases where he is drinking. He is also presented as highly intelligent but often bullied by others. Rajesh has had a few relationships, intimate and casual, with North American young women. He is also very in touch with his feminine side. Raj talks with his folks through a webcam since they're in India.
Many of Raj Koothrappali's manners in The Big Bang Theory are not really approved of by folks from India. Folks from India could see him as a rebel, a wayward son and certainly not what a good Indian man should be like. An East Indian man should be really assertive, able to dictate and command his family, able to get a woman easily, and be exceptionally respectful to his dad and mom. Most importantly, Indian men should certainly get married to a woman of his mother's or father's choosing or at a minimum an Indian woman who is from the same religion as his mother and father. Rajesh (Raj) Koothrappali has none of these kinds of traits. East Indians would see this as total disobedience.
Americans from Indian ancestry may look at Rajesh as an an example. Not really due to his shyness and awkwardness towards women but as a result of his nerve in not following traditions from India. Some Indian Americans will not have the same amount of reverence for native Indian traditions as an Indian born might because he would be substantially affected by the Euro-American way of life.
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You'll want to check out TBBT often and relish the activities of Raj Koothrappali, Howard Wolowitz, Leonard Hofstadter, Penny, and Sheldon Cooper.