I Hate Fake People

@quizling there're two types of Indian accents: north and south. The one you're probably familiar is north. South Indian accent is funnier than north Indian. But sometimes, we, south Indians get too much harassed by north Indians. I have faced it when I was at Kolkata for a training program. As a part of the program, we had English course. During one of the pronunciation class, our trainer, a north Indian, teased south Indian accents in front of me and the other kids from south India, while rest of them laughed at us. By the end of the class, we had a speech test where we have to read from an English text, to a computer which records and tests how good is each trainee's pronunciation and give out the results. When the result came out, two south Indians, including me, had topped the tests. Talk about the irony.

My sis is 27, and my family is trying to get her married. But I can tell that she's afraid to get married because she is expected to be a good wife which she think she wont't be. My dad is a sadist, he had mentally abused her so much that she is made to think she's good at nothing. Others cannot understand this, they keep bugging my mom to get my sister married because she's getting older. On top of that, my parents are separated. So that makes people refuse to marry my sister. It's tough to be an Indian. In my opinion, arranged marriage is completely irrelevant. My parent's was one. That's how my mom ended up with a psycho.

I realise it is hardly my place to say, as it is not my culture. But it just seems so unfair, and archaic in this day and age... I really do feel for anyone forced into an arranged marriage. Ultimately it is going to be worse for the woman too given India's current levels of equality (or lack thereof).

Is the 'caste system' still a big thing over there?

Well, I cannot exactly say from which area of India the two girls that I know actually come from (my knowledge of geography is terrible) but I could listen to them all day, or at least until I drifted off to sleep :D

She isn't married yet, but her parents are trying to arrange a marriage for her. They feel that at 26 she will soon be past her 'sell-by date' :(

Unfortunately I lost touch with one, and the other is not allowed to speak with me anymore... Her parents objected :(

Well, if it means anything, I adore the Indian accent. For some reason I just find it so relaxing to listen to :)

not sure that makes them 'fake' just sounds like they are a$$holes.

The last girl, is she the one who got married?

yep... but not as horrible as it used to be...

they are fake and kind of assholes

you could ask them. Problem solved.