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From: sanjiva@sbstaff2.UUCP (Sanjiva Prasad)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Questions Most Often Asked
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Date: Thu, 2-Oct-86 17:01:26 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  2 17:01:26 1986
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> Meet any Indian, and if you also happen to be one, here are the questions
> you'll be asked:
> 
> 	(1) Where are you from?
> 	(2) What's your visa status?
> 	(3) You mean you *don't* like "Three's Company"?!
> 	(4) How much do you make?
> 	(5) Can one convert from PAL to NTSC (ie, RS170) and put it
> 	    back on the same tape.
> 
> Ali Shaik     ihnp4!philabs!ams

Thanks for the list !!!
Of course, if you are a student (4) gets amended to 
(4a) Which univ. are you at ? Or rather, to put it Indian style ( asked in 
a crescendo culminating somewhere in the 15KHz region ) :
"Where you are studying ?" 
(4b) "Are you in Computers ? " ( Yes, I'm trapped in this VAX )
(4bi) " I bought this PC but it doesn't work. Can you .... ?"
(4bii) " Do you know <alpha> ? (S)He, too, is in computers ..."
(4c) "How much support you get ?" 

But the most ridiculous situation I've been in ( this was in India ) was
when I was introduced to this guy by my friend and his first few questions
(in order) (asked within 5 minutes of meeting me, and despite my what-ought-to-
have-discouged-him-ly terse answers) were :
Where are you studying now ?
Where do you live ?
What does you father do ?
( No, he didn't ask me how much he made !!!!)
Do you want to go abroad for further studies ?
Where do you have ancestral property ?

Tough act to top, right ?

Sanjiva