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Can we talk about how Manmeet always eats like it’s his last meal??

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Parvesh Cheena & Sacha Dhawan

From Parvesh’s Instagram

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I have watched about 45% of this show. Tag yourself I’m temple mouse.

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I love Sacha, but Outsourced is kinda gross.

I...am finding it harder and harder to enjoy Outsourced. Sacha is great as usual, and the total show-stealer, but I am on episode 5, and I can’t bear the affectionate way that the narrative portrays the main character, Todd, whose mediocre attempts at being aware and respectful of a different culture are arguably more damaging than the obvious hatred of an outright bigot. It’s kinda like MLK said of a different racial struggle:

Todd is like the king of racial microaggressions. He makes fun of Indian names, he makes fun of Indian gods, he makes fun of Indian cuisine, he even comments that the place smells bad. Manmeet, Sacha’s character, does all he can to gently educate him, but he can’t keep up with Todd’s terrible mistakes.

What’s worse, there’s another American character in the show who’s overtly and proudly racist, and just because he’s portrayed as a jackass to be laughed at doesn’t help, because Todd continues to befriend him, no matter what, which sends the message that his behavior is somehow pardonable. Spoiler: yikes, no it isn’t.

What’s even worse still, is Manmeet and another employee who is a love interest fit the trope of being burdened with having to teach Todd their cultural heritage just so that he stops being wildly offensive. This would not be a problem to the narrative if there weren’t such a power disparity, but there is: he’s their BOSS, and he can make them lose their livelihood, and, as they often openly comment, their social status and hope of things like respect in society as well as a positive marital arrangement.

There are Indian people of diverse ethnoreligious backgrounds in the show, but few of them even have speaking lines, and those that do are made fun of as some kind of pathological, neurotic punchline (see the soft-spoken female character who usually wears a sari: coded therefore as “traditional” and not “with it” in the sense of a global culture. Notice how the love interest, on the other hand, has culturally assimilated with the West and is therefore “the hot one” and “better.” Yikes.)

Don’t get me wrong, the show makes a noble EFFORT to show exactly how awkward it can be trying to learn how to adapt to a new cultural environment. I just don’t see the main character showing genuine investment in trying. If they’d put someone else as the main character, like an American woman of color or something, I feel like the resulting narrative would have been way richer and more productive.

#ooc #Sacha Dhawan #NBC Outsourced #no disrespect to those who like the show as I know Sacha himself is a fan #and I can't claim to be an expert on any of this but i'm really uncomfortable at some of the stuff i'm seeing