Girl Snaps at Friend’s Cousin for Speaking Hindi ‍♀️

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 rude

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 porn 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 rude 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