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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who are all you Indians who were allowed to eat in their rooms?  I'm Indian and I can't think of any Indian child I was friends with (or related to) growing up who was allowed to take food anywhere in the home but the kitchen or dinning table.  My parents were always very concerned about crumbs, and messes, and bugs, not to mention that they insisted we had all meals at home as a family.

Even now that it's just the two of them at home, my parents will literally NEVER eat in front of the TV - even if it means pausing a show or movie they are in the middle of watching to sit at the table for 20 minutes to have a meal.[/quote]

Yeah, we weren't even allowed to eat in front of the TV!

I am Indian.  I did lots of chores, inside and out.  I was scrubbing toilets and floors by the fourth grade, if not earlier.

Maybe my friends' parents said, "my daughter's friend, she is in eighth grade, and she built the fence around her parents' house.  Why are Indians so obsessed with woodworking?" [/quote]

Haha!!  OP, this basically describes my Indian-American childhood too.  Except I never built a fence.  I did, however, help finish the basement.  Maybe the neighbors were like "why is this Indian family obsessed with DIY?".  It's because my dad didn't want to hire someone out to do it when he could do it himself, that's why.[/quote]

Was your house also filled with slightly (or severely) imperfect DIY projects that were deemed "good enough" - functional but slightly off? Like slightly crooked tiles, grout that didn't match the bathtub, etc?  My dad still grumbles when we hire someone to do something. "WHy are you wasting money? Who cares how your backsplash looks? It's there to get dirty."

My parents once hired someone to help redo the kitchen, my dad worked alongside him, finishing the cabinets himself, installing floors, etc. Ugh, Indian people, right?[/quote]

See, OP, this shows you the difference between the many Indian families out there.  My family was NOT like this at all.  My dad is an engineer and a perfectionist - all of our DIY projects were probably on par with professional projects.  Very unlike what PP describes above. [/quote]

And this FURTHER shows you the difference between Indian engineers...because my dad is an engineer, too, but home projects were always a little off.  You can't even generalize Indian engineers! [/quote]

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