Learning about the history of your family
Learning about the history of your friends' families
Learning about the history of your town or city
Having your phone system language as Hindi or your native one and navigating through it.
Texting in literal Hinglish. Like दिस.
Embracing your ethnicity while embracing your modernity.
Taking special interest in the villages you cross while travelling.
Stopping on your way to somewhere to admire the little frame of your desi world, how the roadside trees look, how people are travelling, what they wear, what they might do as a job, to look at the horizon and think that this is your world
Learning about the traditions restricted to your city/area.
Marriages, even though you might not wanna have a big fat wedding, but they are undoubtedly fascinating.
And the main part of it, how it all happens, the rituals and traditions of marriage
How your older relatives and parents used to spend weeks at the house of person getting married even if they were a distant relative.
Having goosebumps and tears in your eyes while learning about the sufferings of your people under British Rule in India.
Experiencing life at the countryside.
Honestly, as an Indian, I really wanna experience what it feels like to live in Delhi, Kolkata, Punjab, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Mumbai..... And the list goes on.
Learning Punjabi, legit Punjabi
Learning Tamil/Kannada/Telgu
Getting familiar with the dialects of your native language.
Learning about your textile industry
Very important, learning about the stories and tales of people who existed in the past in the world where you live in who did something important and worthwhile.
Fighting against patriarchal traditions and notions of your society, even if it has a cultural significance.
Fighting against anything about your culture which hurts a person's life or minds
Understanding the beautiful stories of arranged marriages in South Asian world but also understanding that a lot of such marriage become toxic too.
Appreciating the people who are working hard to make our world better.
Appreciating the teacher who works really hard to teach you.
Being cool and loving your culture.
Tarak Mehta Ka Oolta Chashma. 🤩
Knowing that Bollywood ain't THAT bad
But also that Bollywood NEEDS to improve A LOT.
Bollywood romantic songs are top tier. No other language, at least for me, can't make me FEEL this feeling as deeply, purely.
Indian Politics is a headache but we learn it to preserve our world, our culture, so that people's selfish reasons don't taint our beautiful world.
Loving the cultures of all the religions South Asia has.
Comparing other languages you learn to your native language and finding it funny how sunbae in korean is a respectful term while the same in Hindi would definitely be very informal.
The inside jokes which only the people of your area get, like the inside joke which ones north Indians get, or which only Rajasthani people get, or perhaps just Tamil ones.
Your school culture. It's unique but not the fact that its made on a cemetery.
Am I the only one who doesn't like schools but loves learning?
The crazy competition culture, where science always wins until the art student clears UPSC.
Not my the same name or term, but Sharma Ji ka beta.
Living as a neurodivergent in India where living as a neurotypical is already so difficult.
Wishing that Kashmir gets its peace and that our world would not have more heartbreaking disputes.
Getting slut shamed for wearing western clothes, girls, let's change our world (not something beautiful but needed to say that)
Realising that America is not actually that great. Getting over your inferiority complex that all of our generations are facing since the independence.
The mughals are talked about but can we talk about the history of Hindu because the Muslim rulers arrived. I'm saying this because i genuinely wanna learn, so if you have some resources, please share.
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