![]() Another set of Indian parents disappointed at their daughter's single status? It feels stale and badly thought-out. Jaffrey is magnificent, on screen and off, but what missed the mark was the stereotypical dialogue the show's writers put in her mouth. I won't lie, Madhur Jaffrey's cameo as Seema's mother in this episode is perhaps the show's crowning moment. ![]() Not all Indian parents are obsessed with marriage In all my years of having non-Indian friends, I have never felt so moved by a moment as to give them permission to wear a lehenga or sari. ![]() Seema was right, a white woman wearing a lehenga to an Indian festival is not appropriation, but putting a Pollyanna-esque bow on it by calling it “appreciation” came off as a little bit cringe. It isn't the sentiment that rubbed us the wrong way, so much as the dialogue: “It's not cultural appropriation,” says Seema, “It's cultural appreciation.” Something about that phrasing doesn't sit right with us, and perhaps it's the fact that so often, the characters of colour on this show appear as tokens-present only to either diversify the lead character's milquetoast lives, or as mouthpieces to say things that only a person of colour could say. Seema rightly points out that, since Carrie has been explicitly invited to a Diwali function that demands Indian wear, it wouldn't be out of place for her to comply and wear an Indian outfit. While in the store, Carrie inquires whether wearing “a sari” (again: it's a lehenga) would amount to cultural appropriation.
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