Meet our American-born girl of Indian heritage who’s had enough of her best friend’s cousin’s cringe-worthy attempts to impress her. Growing up, she and her siblings were only spoken to in English, and they barely know any Hindi. However, this doesn’t stop the cousin from trying to woo her with his ‘Asian spice’ jokes and speaking to her in Hindi. She’s had enough and she’s not afraid to let him know!
Born and Raised in the States
No Hindi Here
Enter the Cringe Cousin
In Each Other’s Hair
Cringe Alert: Asian Spice ️
Gym Rat Gone Wrong ️♂️
Hindi Attempts: Not Cute ♀️
Offensive and Annoying
Everyone Thinks It’s Cute?
Girl’s Had Enough of Cringe Cousin’s Hindi Attempts ♀️
Our American-born girl of Indian heritage is tired of her best friend’s cousin’s cringe-worthy attempts to impress her with his ‘Asian spice’ jokes and speaking Hindi, a language she barely knows. She’s had enough and tells him to stick to English, but everyone around her thinks it’s cute and that he’s just trying to impress her. Is she wrong for putting her foot down? Let’s see what the internet thinks of this situation…
NTA for calling out fetishization of language and culture ❤️
Commenters agree: NTA is creepy
Commenter and reply agree: friend’s cousin is fetishizing and r**e
Setting boundaries with Hindi-speaking cousin
Setting boundaries with creepy cousin who doesn’t understand ‘no’
Commenter predicts r/niceguys post, replies call out privilege
Commenter calls out inappropriate behavior and suggests a clever comeback
Commenter supports OP and suggests telling family about creepy behavior
Respectful language learning vs. creepy fetishizing
Calling out parents for condoning creepy behavior. NTA.
Standing up against language discrimination
Commenter calls out creepy behavior and fetishization
NTA for calling out friend’s cousin’s inappropriate behavior
Calling out creepy behavior empowers victims and stops perpetrators
Age doesn’t matter, but his behavior is definitely creepy
Commenter calls out creepy behavior, gets agreement in replies
OP’s misleading title leads to a clear NTA judgement
White person speaking Hindi with Indian girlfriend, but context is nasty.
Standing up to harassment: NTA shuts down creepy cousin.
Standing up against creepy behavior
Language assumptions and unwanted advances make him TA
Commenter shares experience with fetishization of women of other races
Commenter supports OP’s actions against friend’s cousin
Standing up to racism and harassment is always justified
Standing up to language-based harassment in the workplace
Calling out racist behavior
Bollyboo? Not the a**hole, according to replies.
Language barrier dilemma: Speak Norwegian or avoid him completely?
Commenter defends OP’s actions in language dispute
Commenter defends girl’s reaction to creepy cousin, calls him out
Commenter defends girl who stood up against racist creep
Standing up against racism and harassment. NTA, you go girl!
Respectful communication is key.
Addressing inappropriate jokes about Indian p**n with direct communication
Racism towards Asian women is unacceptable
Support for NTA comment with humorous violent suggestion
Crush vs fetishizing explained with a touch of humor
Commenter supports OP and calls out cousin’s inappropriate behavior ♀️
Commenter defends girl’s actions, calls out friend’s cousin’s motives
Commenter calls out post for karma farming
NTA comment section: Avoiding a creepy cousin
Commenter supports OP’s decision to avoid uncomfortable situation
Standing up for oneself in a foreign language. NTA
Friend’s cousin tries to speak Hindi, fails miserably ♀️
Commenter supports OP and denounces the man’s behavior
Standing up to racism in a foreign country
Avoid creepy cousin, tell parents and friend, stay safe
Commenter calls out racist behavior with humor and profanity
Empowering response to fetishization in a multilingual context
Commenter supports OP’s actions against r**e cousin
Commenter supports OP and finds the situation cringy
NTA – Standing up against language discrimination
Expose the truth about ‘cute’ Hindi comments
Standing up to language bullies
Ignoring him completely is the best way to handle it
NTA snaps at friend’s cousin for speaking Hindi ♀️
Sassy response to language shamer, but will it backfire?
Setting language boundaries: NTA snaps at friend’s cousin
NTA shuts down racist ‘f*** boy’ with clever comeback
Indian teen horrified by friend’s cousin’s Hindi comment
Setting boundaries with cultural insensitivity
Avoiding multilingual guy by learning German
Standing up against cultural insensitivity
Support for NTA who faced sexual harassment for not speaking Hindi.
NTA suggests a spicy comeback in Hindi
Standing up against fetishization and racism, not funny at all
Commenter relates to language fetishization, calls it creepy and awkward
Protect yourself from the fantasy image this guy has created
Last Updated on June 18, 2023 by Diply Social Team