Romesh Ranganathan's Reveals his Real Name | Irrational | Universal Comedy 

I feel sorry for Kyle. All these years having trouble reading just thinking he's crazy, comparing himself to others just not knowing he has dyslexia

@@Magere-Kwark you still do that when you're dyslexic tho Nothing changes

It gives you an actual reason, and dyslexia is something that can be managed If you don't know you're dyslexic then you don't know why you can't read like everyone else, so you're 'stupid' Can really help to know why one is the way they are^^

@@robertdalley7450 I can't speak for dyslexia, specifically, but I went through school with an undiagnosed disability, and honestly I think knowing really does help. It's still a struggle and there's still a lot of "why is this so hard, I wish I was like everyone else" but the difference between knowing that you struggle because you have a condition vs. just thinking you're stupid and lazy can be huge for some people.

@@brook32123 that is true but when i was at school i just felt like i was flawed and stupid like some kind of because i had it and i just couldnt get the words out but i get what you mean. Plus everyone made me feel like i was the problem cuz i have adhd and dyspraxia too

Oh my gosh, I can't stop laughing

president of my college’s Chinese Student Union went by Legend. served him at my work once and had to go “what was that?” because i didn’t think i heard him right

@@ProudxNerd "that's me, I am Legend"

met someone named Joestar and they were walking around with a Jojo's shirt xD

I'm half Japanese too. I have a cousin named Snow.....

exactly same

Lol this is a half insult

@@crankykiwi2407 which part of it

He hates white men whilst having a white wife

Facts

So how did he turn Romesh into such a horrible racist?

what a story

anyone ever think you might be indian?

@@MusMasi sometimes via text or phone call people assume we have some indian heritage, but it's pretty hard to think that when you see how pasty-white we are in person lol. We also have a lot of people spell it the Indian way (Patel), and have to correct them and say it's spelled Pattle.

@@MusMasi Having thought about it, we probably *do* have some distant relatives in India, Pakistan, Burma etc. because of the British Empire. We know for sure that some branches of the Pattle family emigrated to various parts of the empire, specifically Australia and South Africa. In fact, we are very distantly related to Marmaduke Thomas St John Pattle (usually known as Pat Pattle), a South African-born RAF pilot, and one of the best allied fighter aces of the Second World War.

@@lucinaaugusta7279 mad, heritage is interesting

I've had people ask if I'm Chinese. I don't look Chinese at all 😂 my last name is Young

Did you ever get caught though? 🤣🤣

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Sikh nicknames tends to b english sounding like Mandy for Mandeep, Sandy for Sandeep, Jassi or Jazz for Jaspreet/Jasdeep , Harry for Hardeep/Harpreet etc.

@@edinburghaccies2 yup, the kids were Sandeep, Mandeep and Hardeep, the mum was "Mandy" but a different "Mand____" real name 😁

Azerbaijani people are white enough, they would have less problems unlike browns

so was the real adolf ;)

were they fans of his work?? lol

@@Vihara2 h hi huh uh uh uh vhh uh

Hahaha goddamm it XD

The sad thing is that every application was to work in indian restaurants.

@@sizzxrk working in an Indian restaurant sounds so fun and also a good opportunity to have quality food

@@largeladsteve25 It does mate

@@Boris82 go to China as a white person the business world will look down at you.

The reason is people like those similar to them. If you’re English living in Thailand, and you get 15 interviews, 5 Indian, 5 Chinese, 4 Pakistani and then 1 guy from the same town as you back in England, you’re gonna have a preference for the English guy. The reason being, grades etc don’t mean all that much. Interpersonal skills are highly valuable. Here’s a good example, if I hired you to work for me, and you only speak English and I only speak my country’s language, how tf are we gonna get any work done?? Whereas if you’re culturally the same/similar, makes working easier. If a British, Irish, ozzy and Canadian all applied for jobs with a British company in Dubai, they would be preferred simply because the brits working there want people who will have a pint with them watching the rugby after work etc, that doesn’t mean they have to be white, but culturally yknow

Just look at the last name Filipino is one of the options I would of come up with looking at your name, plenty of filipinos with Spanish sounding last names, well actual spanish last names as they took spanish surnames during colonization, it was a spanish colony for 400 years?

Escalante isn't so bad

But Filipinos don't have native names though. We have Christian names and then Spanish surnames because colonization (Spanish and American and Catholicism). Unless you are the rare ones to have Filipino surnames like "Makabaligutin". And if you're Visayan, you'll know thats a very real surname that is also very hilarious.

Escalante is a cool last name.

@@rumblefish9 lmao 'native names' We do though? Betting you're a city boy

He himself whitewashed his children by naming them Alex, Charlie and Theo

@@varoonnone7159cause they don’t think like that in the UK bud. It’s not “white washing”. It’s fckn naming your kids what you want.

@@AutumnPearly01 It's called internalised racism Leo Varadkar said that his parents took a sensible decision to raise him Christian Why don't Christian indians give Hindu names to their children then?

​​@@varoonnone7159 because they're Christian, not Hindu. Do you complain about Muslims not giving their children Hindu names? Or Hindus not giving their children Jewish names? Also, whitewashing is a very American thing, as is the idea of internalized racism.

@@meredithcarroll6209 You have reading problems. Leo Varadkar's father is Hindu and he preferred to have his children raised Christian in Ireland So why aren't the children of Christians raised Hindu in India ? Can't you see your hypocrisy ?

That’s a cool name

Should’ve given himself the name “Vector” smh

Interesting story about undocumented (aka ILLEGAL) immigration. Your dad was a criminal.

Hope you're feeling better now.

Stay strong, there's light at the end of the darkness!!

The gift of laughter 😊

I've got no idea who you are mate, but I'm sending you some love from Sydney. Chin up, the world's a better place with you in it.

Guys, this has to be the most wholesome reactions I ever had to a comment. Thanks to all of you! I know the pain will go away and you helped as well, I want you to know that!

I really wish racism would die out. However, with racist raising racists unfortunately that doesn't look like it's going to happen anytime soon. It's so ridiculous to be offended by someone's color or ethnicity. I love learning about new cultures. I wish they could love it too. May you stay safe and happy.

in order for racism to die out the idea racism exists has to die out. race is a social construct more so than gender is.

Both good names! Interesting compromise in both Romesh and your case. Unfortunate these kinds of things matter to some people, but totally understandable from your parent's perspective. Well Ahmed Adam Alkishawi, you're an American, people got a problem with your name they can F-off... especially if it is other Americans.

Brilliant

That’s what Jeff Dunham said.

esteban sounds pretty sick as a name woah.

That makes me so sad.. it’s so disgusting that this type of discrimination even exists. People should be able to be proud of who they are without worrying about how it may affect their future

@@emmettdonkeydoodle6230 just a shame it’s still the older generation running big businesses

You'd seem less ethnic with a name like Jonathan and thusly be less likely to get a job in the modern market.

@@tsb3208 ha ha very funny (sarcasm)

@@aviralgupta393 It's not a joke, it's a fact that you can actually quantify. There are diversity quotas for everything today and you cannot avoid them, a business owner knows fully well that they're in a better position with more ethnic minority employees and they will choose them over non-minority people if they are capable of doing the job. Minority candidates have the measurable advantage in the job market.

Same by parents purposefully didn’t teach me Haitian Creole because they wanted to be able to talk in a language I didn’t understand so they could have secret conversations in front of me. Now they are surprised I don’t feel connected Haiti or my relatives that speak only creole for the most part.

Very few (like, a few thousand) people can't speak their mother tongue. The term refers to the first language you spoke, not the language your ancestors spoke.

@@dyent makes sense - i confused it lol oops

@@amyckan What jyt said. Or at least in a broader sense, the language you're most comfortable using even if it technically ain't your first. The term you're looking for here, i believe, is ancestral tongue.

Me too. I'm half Polish and don't speak a single word of it and I have extended family in Poland. I'm also Irish British as all get out.

what's your name hon?

Ditto. Many in my family goes by their middle name. I also got confused when I started school.

I go by a name that's completely different from my official names. So I have 3 names in total, 2 official ones and 1 sort of official nickname. You see in my country that's completely normal not everyone does it. But I can apply for jobs with this official nickname. It really is trans heaven because while i'm still walking around with very feminine official names I just changed this official nickname to a gender neutral name. And i'm registered at school as Alex Doorn without having to pay to officially change my name :D.

@@alexdoorn234 Very curious, what country has this “official nickname” sort of thing? I want an official nickname!

I had something similar except my nickname is a weird shortening of my first name and it’s spelt in a way everyone who doesn’t know me pronounced it completely wrong

@@zanews23 Can’t speak on Alex’s behalf, but in Finland I’ve seen many registration forms with a separate line for ”nickname”, though I’ve always assumed that it’s only for pointing out which one of your official names to address you by

Indian South Africans are the bomb. Indian Indians....not so much.

What a lag boet

He is not of black race. Your comeback of black skin make him of black race Fine Brown skin of black race makes them of brown race.

@@dannyarcher6370 He is not of black race. Your comeback of black skin make him of black race Fine Brown skin of black race makes them of brown race.

@@dannyarcher6370 fo

But did they think it through? It just seems like they thought people would just ignore his surname lol

Yo! Same! I can understand Tamil perfectly but can’t speak a lick of it.

White name lol you sure that it's 'white ? I guess Israelies are kinda white, it originates from there .

There's no such thing as a "white" name. They gave him an English name. They didn't name him François or Olaf or Hänsel for exactly the same reason.

@@NoahOMorainRush exactly

Sad world..racism when applying for work

Thought mother language = the one you natively grew up speaking?

@@lamps453 it’s an imprecise term, and can have different meaning to people who are 2nd or 3rd immigrants to their particular areas. Often a ‘mother language’ is the one that your community or family speaks natively, and that can be different from the language you were actually raised to speak natively. There’s also a matter of cultural assimilation or colonialism - a good example of that would be Welsh speaking. The people who speak Welsh as a first language are vanishingly rare, but a lot of Welsh people consider it a mother language because the reason for its rarity is due to active political suppression from England

@@lamps453 William puts it perfectly. I can illustrate with my own experience: I grew up in a family that spoke Malayalam to me so it was the first language I was exposed to. But outside of my family, I only spoke English. Everything around me was in English and naturally, I acquired it with greater depth than I ever did in Malayalam. The more time I spent away from home going off to college and stuff, the less Malayalam I spoke or heard and you can really lose your grasp in a language very easily if you don't have it occupied in your head.

@@suqmaddiqq I've heard this from a guy I went to Uni with. He was from Poland and spoke German with a heavy accent (still very good German, just with a noticeable accent. Funnily enough, his accent made him sound like an American, lol). He once told me that the more time he spends in Germany, the worse his native language gets, because he just doesn't use it as much. It always took him a few days of being exposed to only Polish to be able to speak his native language properly again.

Trust me, its the best. I'm a Creole Mauritian..... When I respond to me name, even now in 2022, there will be at least one person who will look at the paper with my name on it and then at me and then at the paper and then at me all the while I'm standing like an idiot waiting for someone to say something.... 😂 😂 😂

I’m white (Anglo Saxon descended from Protestants) and sometimes people are very disappointed im not one of two ethnicities I am not when I show up.

When I was in primary school a similar thing happened with a brother of one of my classmates. We weren’t allowed to tell him he was autistic. Always thought it was weird. Thought it was weirder when I was diagnosed myself lol.

My names are German and Indian. People are always confused. I live in Australia btw. They usually ask me what sort of name I have and when I usually just say Indian unless they specifically ask “Emil, where is that name from”. Some are more familiar with the French spelling ‘Emile’ and assume I have French heritage. When I say it’s actually the German spelling, they’re like oh so you have a German grand parent? I don’t have any German heritage. My mum just liked the name. She happens to be white. Irish heritage. I have an Irish middle name. If she were Indian, nobody would assume I had German ancestry. If I was white, I kinda doubt as many people would bother asking. If it was an Irish name, I could say, “oh yeah, Irish roots.” I like my name too. And explaining it really is not that hard. But it seems sometimes like I’m the first person to have a name they didn’t inherit from a relative.

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As a Chinese with Jonathan as his middle name and has had to use this name for my school life, then revealing my Chinese name to everyone ive grown up with, with them suddenly trying to call me with my new name, it felt different, I greet you fellow Jonathan.

So my son's name is Jonathan and when we went back to India I was surprised at how many different ways people found to pronounce it. From Jonaaathin to Janardhan even .... left me feeling a bit perplexed...😅

So my son's name is Jonathan and when we went back to India I was surprised at how many different ways people found to pronounce it. From Jonaaathin to Janardhan even .... left me feeling a bit perplexed...😅

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“Jhon”

I need to get on one of these calls 😭🤣

But Anglo Indians and Indian Christian’s exist. 40 million of us walking around with the whitest names on the planet

interesting, usually Indians stick with their own names. but i guess in professional environments they might use another one

Everyone in the UK knows him

And some in India know him.

Everyone in Britain knows who Ramesh is and well loved. Funny thing is he was high school maths teacher before becoming comedian

I knew a guy called Baby Boy Roberts and I guess now I know why.

I've heard of the same story but with the word Infant. Baby boy sounds so much nicer.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-v4YhsooE5xY.html Well if you like this guy, here's him on the first Series of Task Master. Whole 1st Series is there plus up until like 9 or so.

@@ed_vilon668 thanks bud!

He is also a contestant in an UK show called Taskmaster, go check it out it's cool

@@brebrobro peace!! It’s time for me to get into British tv, it’s been a while, since Nathan barley!

@@brebrobro Tree Wizard is an absolute banger.

Same thing.

Happened to my little brother...just as funny up close (tho not for him LOL)

Reminds me of an old friend Katie who found out at school her parents actually named her Catherine.

. . . they "couldn't" pronounce it, mate? That is kinda sad, gives me the mental image of an entire State of people with a speech impediment. At least down here in NZ and Aussie, it wouldn't be a problem. People don't call their acquaintances by their given name, calling some bloke on your sports team, or at school, by his "proper" name more than three or four times, means nobody likes him enough to give him a nick-name. I imagine you would have got called "Not Ernie" or something else inventive :P

[null•bear•toe] if that's incorrect idk how else you could pronounce it.

If you grew up in England, you would have been called Nobby.

funny part is that CEO of Google, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Deloitte, Chanel, Barclays, GAP, Wayfair, Diageo, Vimeo, and now OnlyFans WERE ALL BORN AND RAISED In INDIA. having a foreign/ "non-white" name might get you hired. 😂

They can pronounce it. They just Don't want to. Wankers

You don't know that, this is ghost hunting racism, when you have no proof it's happening, but you "know'" it's there.

Cis as in Cis gender studies?

@@dontdex8221 computer information systems

@@dontdex8221 thats not a real word

@@ryanparker4996 cisgender is the scientific name for being the same gender as assigned at birth? Very much a real word?

You've never read your ID or your passport?

@@loladas9 Not really, I’ve never had a reason to do so. I didn’t think to verify that my name was actually my real name haha

@@loladas9 Not an immigrant, but my mom always kept my social security card and birth certificate under lock and key until I requested them after moving out. Think I got the chance to actually examine it it a single time in like kindergarten. I can totally see this.

Seriously at 18? How in the hell is that possible?

That is an old naming convention to use the middle name and then inherit the first name from the father or a common first name among the children. Don't ask me where it's from, jag har alltid tyckt att den är dum.

To make things worse my parents gave me a name that is totally not pronounceable if you are a Spanish speaker.

Same, my mum's Belgian but I cant speak a word of dutch fortunately my cousins ,aunt and uncle speak fluent english but conversation with Oma and Opa is very much the same as Romesh with his relatives.

@@flibbertygibbet To be fair I think *most* languages would have problems pronouncing "Flibbertygibbet".

@@HellaGust 😂

Good on you mate. Language is the thread that binds you to your culture.

please don't ask him zafana stories .

Me too! Roll call: My name was repeated & I didn't respond, so went through the whole roll call, & figured out who I was through process of elimination... I eventually caught on!

Could have been Norwegian as well. We avoid conflicts like the plague

@@monmothma3358 You trying to start a fight or what? 🤣

@@elvissimpson9060 ROFL

Except him when he said hes sri lanken and not british.

funny part is that CEO of Google, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Deloitte, Chanel, Barclays, GAP, Wayfair, Diageo, Vimeo, and now OnlyFans WERE ALL BORN AND RAISED In INDIA. having a foreign/ "non-white" name might get you hired. 😂

My name is easily confused with being Spanish so in Miami it's always a surprise that it's me.. Name collisions happen both ways..

Is that Tolkien's distant great grand nephew from Sri Lanka?

Aloof?? There's loads of people of ethnic minorities in the big cities, particularly London and Birmingham, and no way are the local accents aloof.

“Khrishtofer patel ji”

We’re you a fortune teller that could see the future? Or have you come back from the dead to post this comment?

So mark , what is your real name ? :O

@@anagitatedfrog271 cripple

@@anagitatedfrog271August Pierre

I heard that on a talk show called yang kind of shows how mature people are nowdays

Not just kids. Seen my mom tell that to non family members too

am Chinese and can confirm. an uncle-in-law once asked me, are you pregnant or are you just fat? true story. it hurts but it's the culture here. im not planning to perpetuate it myself.

@@bigmattwheel why are they so rude

@@bigmattwheel Lol that’s wild, it’s actually funny because my mothers neighbour is Philippine and I got fat last year (sadly). Every time she sees me she says “oh my you’ve gotten so fat” and then shakes her head with the disappointed look on her face. At first I thought it was a little rude but now I find it funny because I’m realising it’s just her culture. I really cool with another Philippine girl that’s my age and when I was getting bigger she would always say “my god, you’re getting fat” so it must be a thing. I know she’s not Chinese but it’s just as funny 😂

It is strangely unique for sure

Yeah, he's hilarious 😂