VIR DAS | Is the West More Privileged? |  

FYI: In India, we don't pump our Gas. there is a person whose job it is. We also don't call it Gas because it's liquid.

Just putting the Mukesh Ambani thing out there. His son allegedly was out on a joyride late night in his Aston Martin and caused an accident . The news came and swiftly disappeared. One of the drivers, whose cellphone placed him on the other side of the city said he was driving. The two people whose cars were damaged got brand new cars the next day. Thankfully , nobody died.

Accent in India is different because all their 1st languages are different in India there are 22 official languages so english sounds different for everyone

Jaby "There is a lot to unpack here" Koay

As someone who was born in India and spent two years in the US, I was caught off guard by America. I was honestly surprised by how welcoming people were in Texas when I moved here. Most movies, tv shows etc lead me to believe otherwise. I love my time here. But then again, I was also taken aback by how fragile the West actually is. During the Texas Blackouts a few weeks back, the state came to a standstill. Considering that everything in my apartment required electricity, I literally couldn't cook stuff or even heat water. No delivery or takeout and it was a nightmare experience. A blackout in India doesn't really affect you that much because for one thing , it's more common than in the US and you can still easily survive without electricity. Also the toilet roll crisis or sanitizer crisis showed how fragile Western people are. A slight indication of damage and they freak out like the world's going to end. It definitely has been an interesting experience comparing my Indian and American experience and I hope I can continue doing so. PS: I am terrible with any accent, so I speak English the way Friends taught me to do lol

Indians and Egyptians don’t like violence eiher. He was trying to say that west is so privileged so rich that all they need to do is march to get their voices heard. Indians and poorer nations have to risk their lives to get their voices heard.

Oh God! Jaby The hotels in America that take your bag to the room expect tip at the end of the service. In India it is given they will take your bag to the room no matter what.

Well there isn't a tipping culture in India ,yes you can tip but you're not obligated to tip someone for filling your Gas , I have never seen a gas station ( we call it petrol pump) where you have to do it yourself , wealth inequality is huge over here ,we don't even have a minimum wage ,I never had a problem with Simpsons ,it's funny to me. Indian accents are very different there are probably hundreds of Indian English accents

"Tipping for pumping your gas", doesn't the person on the gas station get payed by the Company.

For example : There are Indians who just stay in America for a month and come here and talk in a accent like they were born there. So maybe it’s just the bragging he was talking about.

I think the point is the those marches dont get you anywhere in developing countries. The govt would easily find a way to oppress such movements.

Vir Das is One of The Best and Wittiest Comedians I have ever Known.

he was just saying that here in india there are much more ppl and there is so much unemployment so ppl can do such work for there living so its common for us now and not for u obviously less ppl there.

I was studying but this seemed more important

Indians are forced to put the accent on because of you don’t , Americans and Europeans would have you repeat everything you said because they refuse to get their ears to learn to understand diverse accents of the world.

Vir Das - in English Vir - brave Das - slave 😅😅😅😉Where is first two episodes?

On the aspiring accent thing, if we look at it logically there's an even bigger fallacy which is that the Aussie, Brit & American accents are picked up because they primarily speak English. They don't speak English I'm Russia or Germany so why would you develop a Russian English or German English accent when you rarely hear it.

The problem from India is these people who feel they are Westernised, feel they are above those who from India even though their heritage is Indian. They loose their identity and I have seen it many times, and have seen this many times. I feel it is more coresspondent to the country they go to. People in the UK still identify as Indian, British Indian, but still Indian. With the US it is more of an attitude change.

Watch the other two episodes of #TenOnTen as well, those are absolutely *PHENOMENAL!*

This is amazing, when comedy makes you pause and contemplate. Loved how you two unpacked the whole content. Yep, have no issues with people using Indian accent for humour. But like any race, we don’t want to be subjected to racism and discrimination.

This is probably his most chilled and least controversial video in a long time.

We have 1000+ dialects, there's no way all can sound same, even while speaking the foreign language..

"that one magic trick where they made all our resources disappear 🤣🤣🤣" had me rolling

It was Vir's light comedy from #tenonten and you analysed and amazed so much, what will happen if you watch or react to previous two (I hope you have already watched but didn't post that). They are really hard and dark comedy. But seriously jaby, it's just comedy Why So SERIOUS 🃏🃏

people who are born in the west do have the accent out of necessity, but there are a lot of indians who just visit the states for a few months and come back with an fake accent just to show off...

I think they are going to interview Vir das on the livestream today that's why they uploaded the video within 2 days of the posting of the original video

Who only watch for achara ❤ . . . Like me🤪

Privilege of living in the west is not fearing to be killed for having an opinion (mostly). Freedom of expression is more accepted in the west. Despite different opinions people in west can discuss without trying to kill each others. In India even fictious characters in movies are not allowed to have opinions, because there is always some one getting offended

well, he was the founder of the comedy group "Weird-Ass comedy" just a pun on his name. So you're pronunciation ain't bad.

In India WE DO NOT PAY, TIP THE PERSON WHO REFILLS OUR FUEL TANK. THE PETROL, DIESEL PRICES ARE ANNOUNCED EVERYDAY BY CENTRE, STATE. The fuel station pays the workers FROM THE PROFIT THAT OWNER MAKES.

Look How jaby carefully avoided the more "real" episodes of #tenonten and went with the most safe one.

The problem with apu was not that it was a white guy playing that character. The problem was that the indian accent sounds nothing like the actual Indian accent.

To be honest now when i am trying to observe i don't even know what accent i speak😂😂

Achara: "Growing up in Asia, I was accustomed to having someone else pump my gas." Me: What?

Vir is one of the smartest comedian we have!

Yeah, its true indian try to sound Russian, American, etc. Even they didn't go to abroad,usually or typically girl of south Bombay and south Delhi try to do that and its hilarious

There are hordes of Indians in the carribeans. Sometimes they are the biggest non native ethnic group. Guyana, Trinidad, Surinam for example. Indians from there have that native accent. South African Indians have a different accent. In a foreign country you can't help but sound like how people are talking around you. But, back in the day, there used to be people who'd appreciate someone with an American accent more than say a native vernacular influence. (Say a bihari or a bengali accent)

The thing is this video was made for an Indian audience so you don't understand most of the jokes.. 1. Since India has so many people, and unemployment rates are VERY high, you can FIND a person to do anything for you, even below the minimum wage. He was highlighting that and added a lot more dimensions, ranging from oppression to the "Grass is greener on the other side". 2. I am not generalizing, but there are Indian-American people, or sometimes just tourists from India who visit any of the English-speaking countries and try to flaunt, using their branded stuff(that's where he made that NRI joke) and their 'accent', which you can sometimes very clearly detect, is fake. The idea behind that is that they are somehow better that the Indians who never got to go there. If it is done in America, you can understand they are trying to blend in. But these people do that in India, and it is done so that they can 'stand out'. (And the 'pawri ho rahi hai' joke can be understood in this perspective. They were making fun of the person's accent) 3. About Indians not having any Russian or Mexican accent, he is again talking about the people I described above. There never seem to be any of these Indians who speak (or rather fake) any Mexican or Russian accents. Again, the idea is that the 'West' is somehow better, you become more privileged once you visit it, and hence you flaunt that, while you don't flaunt other countries' accents. 4. The Apu joke, -- he has kinda made it earlier. How most Indians don't care about it because they are dealing with bigger problems -- like poverty. But the hue and cry some Indian-American people made on it, he is making fun of that. Its okay if Indian-Americans do that, they have little perspective on REAL Indian problems. But there were some Indians in India who got offended at such a silly thing, when there are clearly MUCH bigger problems plaguing India. He is trying to highlight that. 5. About marching, he is just saying how easy it is to get attention in the West. You guys have more rights and get attention just by marching, while there are people in countries like Hong Kong and Myanmar recently, where even violence does not work. So he is just telling how the West is better, they have an entitlement to justice, because your governments listen to you. So here he was just resenting Asian countries. [My perspective, didn't get the entire joke]

0:10 i actually nodded seeing Jaby’s expression 😂😅

Jaby saw so many indian videos now, he's starting to nitpick a joke like an indian aunty/uncle...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Regarding protesting, the point was the non Westerners have to work a lot harder to change the world, which is the definition of privilege.

Why didn't you react to his second stand up freedom of expression?

He said in the west people feel entitled to protest raise their voices over trivial 1st world country problems From 3rd world countries perspective those in the west seems like so small not important That's inequality of different places

I'm from INDIA. Well ,,my favorite accent is from HARLEM. I love when black people talk , there so distinguished and nonchalant at the same time. Plus those folks know how to cuss.

When Achara said.. “i wonder” at 19:20 she sounded as if she was trying british accent.

4:27 : where jaby laughs louder and longer than all attendees combined.

Appu is still the reason many young kids have been mocked, ridiculed and insulted for no fault of their own by white supremacists. And yes, they care.

Will highly recommend watching ‘Religion vs Comedy’ by Vir Das..that was on point!!

So education in india is EXTREMELY important and it actually is a very common question to be posed with. Almost every person has a bachelor's degree and end up doing something completely different but in the lower stages of education then you aren't aware of the opportunities, so it is very astounding when in India you hear that a person with an engineering profile is a singer, india is slowly adapting to this and are quiet supportive but most of the time it is shocking for a Indian to hear that, especially South Indians who give priority only to education. Secondly judging a person by their college is at some level wrong, but nothing compared to skin, tone, caste. On the other hand colleges in India look at your marks and having good grades equals good education which inturn equals good standards in society and prosperity in the future, I being a tamilian think it's valid enough.

I as Indian when I look at the west, their problems look really puny to me. I don’t know if others people think so too, but it looks like they have problems which are not even problems and hence they create problems themselves. Am I the only one?

I could slowly see Jaby's expression change when Vir started hitting the deeper jokes about the West. I could see that Jaby would call those jokes offensive but he didnt bcoz he had to be balanced, support the indian guys...... Yet they were surprised when they reacted to Kunal Kamra (one of the most politically divided figures in india) and got all the hate stuff !!

Vir is "brave".

English accent in India, what influence the person had? what amount of effort the person put in correcting pronunciations? And a little bit of the way a person speak their mother language, the tongue placement and stuff. So my school and college teachers had really good English accents.

I agree with Achara...on the "Land of Opportunity" well not everyone has a job because of the least service jobs in the US. In one way in Asia its helping people have some job at least.

What a lovely discussion ❤️❤️

Marching is an Indian Idea...it's a thing in Asia as well .. Gandhi started it .... but vir was pointing out on how here both the parties stand strong on the ground against each other making it a struggle....like hongkong don't want the law to me passed but and the government wanted it

Man vir das is so cool the dude managed to bring out the fallacies of the left and the right.

I always thought it's natural to pickup some mannerisms from the people around you... I noticed that recently in myself. Both my parents are from different states and we live in a third state...with widely differing accents. There is a difference in the way I talk with my cousins from both sides... And with my local friends too. I don't think about doing it... It's just natural for me..... Anyone else noticed themselves doing this???

The point about changing accent to blend in and not get noticed is soooo true. In India when I moved from my hometown to different states I gave my best to sound exactly the same as others when speaking different languages with accent and stuff. I am sure people who catch accents outside do so because of the same reason. However, I also agree with the fact that some people just want to look and sound cool. There are people like that. One of my best buds was like that. Edit: oh and some people just subconsciously pick some things up without noticing

I forget I am watching it alone, it feels like you both are my besties next to meeeee :)

The accent aspiration is not about those born & born brought up in those particular countries. It is those go for education abroad and come back with an accent. We literally see people who go to the US for say a few months and come back with an accent. Also, just because we don't take offence doesn't mean it should happen. Apu should not exist even otherwise.... One time is okay.. But we see a lot of Indian characters shown to speak like Apu.

Also Aspirational accents are because Australia, US and English are the countries with English speaking population, that's why its easier to connect with those accents.

Language changes but the accent remains same and india has so many languages and every language have a different tone or accent. So, when they speak english, the tone or accent remains the same to that of their mother tongue. Thats my theory. I may be wrong.

VirDasji has cleverly criticized all and praised all in single statements .

Indian tea is popular but the workers who plucks the tea leaves are the oppressed community, and there's been no major changes in their livelyhood. They are paid less, oppressed, often treated as some kind of less smart people by some other communities. The region I am from has tea gardens and I have experienced their sufferings.

Jaby just a suggestion for u , Just give true reaction whether it is good or bad towards india . We love u because u are true . Never ever hesitate in giving true reaction . And we love u alot❤️❤️

Yeah Jaby, it happens to me to, wherever I go in India itself, I pick up their accent sub consciously and then become bery scared of offending the native if it comes off as a mockery lol.....

Achara is superbly intelligent lady. ❤️🖤

Please react more to Saiman Says. A guy who does fearless comedy, without being unnecessarily cringy and cussing others. For sample you can check out his videos like - How to roast like Carryminati, Slayy Point Collaboration with Saiman Says, RU-vid FanFest Cringe 2019 & 2020, Valentine's Day Pranks, etc. Really nice and honest guy, but seriously misunderstood. I hope you will check out his videos. 😊

I've come across a ton of Indians that have grown up in India (mostly) and have clear American/British accents... Don't know about foreign countries tho.

Her name is literally Achar which means pickle in Hindi.

Jaby was so offended 🤣🤣

Achara you're just looking so gooooood in black and blue! Woah Woman🤩

That 'Final Solution' joke though 👀

you should check out the first two episodes THEY'RE BOMB

Man u should react to freedom of expression it's just amazing

FINALLY!! I WAS WONDERING WHY YOU HAVENT REACTED TO MORE OF THE TEN ON TEN SERIES....

naah man, the joke on us picking up aspirational accents is so true

Jaby .. roasted him unknowingly saying" weird ass".😂

I feel Indians have the consciousness to adapt accents...due to the culture of different languages!! The NRI's 10 and 20 yrs back and NRI's now are different....the current indians living abroad are picking up accents!!

5:37 vir predicted the ntr accent controversy..😂

Everyone else: Vir Das Jaby: Weird-arse

Jaby u should react to Varun Grover. He is a very versatile comedian . Also, Aakash Gupta's Sarojini Nagar.

Do you know how the tipping system started in America? In the late 1800's rich people, when would go to a restaurant would bribe the waiters so that they would bring their food early and fresh, when the owners found out about it, they started paying the waiters less, now they HAD to depend on the tips, and now if you don't tip in America, you are a d*ck... Small one. Tipping is only prevalent in America, in most of the other countries its not required. In Japan it's insulting the the server if you give tip. Indians are not stingy, the tradition in America just always HAS been arceyic.

React to "Main Rahoon Ya Na Rahoon" song. This is my thousandth request....

Guys OPERATION MBBS S2 is coming on 15 march. Trailer droped yesterday

This is great comedy. Thanks for reacting...didnt hear of this one elsewhere tbh

19:17, a counter-viewpoint is that: the fact that those indians "migrated" to those areas and thus received those accents. In itself, that already lies the meaning of the aspiring aspect

More vir das reactions please

Vir Das had the balls to ask for Gulab Jamuns dipped in The Final Solution

Wonderful review on your part. You should react to his entire ten on ten series. With the accent thing, his point was not that people choose to form accents but that somehow people only tend to pick up accents when they are inspirational or keep whatever they already had. But you're right, a lot of accent changes do come from wanting to fit in.

Him laughing at his own accent is too funny

Yeah that's right Jaby. Almost every Indian state its own accent when it comes to speaking in English. Because almost every state has it's own indigenous language and as english is the 2nd language over here so, people will speak english in the way they speak their own mother tongue.

Jaby react first glimpse of Pspk 27 Hari hara veera Mallu

My friend currently works in Canada in a cafe, she switches from Indian accent to Canadian accent and visa versa. She tells us that people actually don't understand her when she talks in her Indian accent. Even though she's talking in English. 🤷🏻‍♀️ But there are definitely some people who come back from abroad after a few months and start talking in the Western accent just to show off.

Sarcasm, Satire and the truth! A complete package!

West has forgotten what goes up should come down. West has set the golden standard to the rest of the world in all aspects. It is true every Indian is curious from which University one has obtained. To get a CA similar to PCA is so difficult one should spend atleast 5 years. To get PCS in USA is very easy. That accent may be true for some extent it is the additional knowledge one has. Any body with accent will get into trouble if he has not mastered the knowledge. I had a friend of mine who has a large poultry farm whose brother is a doctor in USA who struggle to save/ spend and it is often his brother pays all his biils whenever he visits USA .He always suggests him to return to India and make money .

A lot of Indians, "pick up an accent" even when they were in the West for even a limited period. I put that phrase in quotes because these accents are silly attempts at showing off that you've been to outside India. They aren't regional varieties. I think Vir was poking fun at those Indians, not Americans or Brits or Indian origin. Many Indians, including me, have met couple of such "wannabe" Indians and it's really irritating to be around them when they do that. Like okay Suresh, you went to San Francisco for 2 months, you're clearly faking your accent, So just speak in your normal Indian accent, or shut up lol

Guys we too have our racism in india it's called the "caste system". Which is a darker version of racism! Read about it if you get time.