In Christianity the Trinity (Father-Son/Jesus-Holy Spirit/Ghost) are said to be three persons in one god. My Orthodox Christian friends say it’s meant to be a mystery to be meditated on by devotees whereas my Catholic and Protestant friends often try to rationalize the belief in various ways and it is that kind of rationalization he is joking about. He is deliberately exaggerating the accents of both the Indian and British. And the way he’s doing it along with the way he’s having the two characters phrase things is actually a good indicator that he’s talking to an American audience. I can’t completely explain it as it’s just something that as an American I grew up hearing and is still done sometimes in films and shows. An American listening would hear an arrogant but frustrated British character interacting with a clever and sarcastic Indian character. You could literally change the Indian character to any other nationality, ethnicity, etc that is from a former British colony and essentially it’s a stand-in for how Americans view themselves towards the British and how we often mock the British (the British mock as, too, as loud, ignorant, etc so the jokes go both ways). Throughout the history of the modern era (1500 to present) there’s definitely one thing all former British colonized peoples have in common: when the British first arrived they sent business folks who claimed they were only interested in trading goods…..and then over time this was realized to be a lie. A British comedian who used to go by the name Eddie Izzard (she now goes by Suzie Izzard) has a similar joke about British colonialism in one of their standup comedy routines. It goes: British person: “I claim all of India for her majesty.” Indian person: “Excuse me there’s several million of us here and we’re already a country so go away.” British person: “Do you have a flag?” Indian person: “No.” British person: “Well if you don’t have a flag then you can’t be a country. That’s the rules…that I just made up. And I’m backing those rules up with this gun I got from the NRA. Thanks granddad.” NRA referring to the National Rifle Association an organization in the US that’s also a lobbying group and while it has nothing to do with that particular part of the routine, it’s a call back to an earlier part when she was talking about gun violence in the US and she referenced the NRA and how to people outside the US it seems like an American can just walk into their grandparents house and grab a gun and then go do terrible things. So that’s what that’s about at the end of the joke there. And that’s basically their style of comedy to have little brief call backs to earlier jokes in new jokes they’re making. She brings the “Do you have a flag” joke back later on in the show as well when talking about another moment in later history. Great reaction!
im definitely sure its called great britain because britain was already taken as a name (which we got from romans) albeit in france its called brittany referring to a specifcally region, so great representing a larger mass of land. britanny being the lesser land mass, it predates the colonial age
South Africa has the highest population of Indians living outside of India, especially South India and Bangla. I think that is the accent hes is copying
