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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
Aasif Mandvi
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Aasif Mandvi
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: March 5
Actor
Film Actor
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Bombay
Aasif Mandviwala
Aasif H. Mandviwala
Aasif Hakim Mandviwala
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America undermines its own ideals when it ignores the very values it is promoting around the world. You cannot ask other people in the world to follow the law and act responsibly if we don't do the same... and being afraid is not an excuse.
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England has an interesting relationship with the Indian subcontinent because the years of colonization and the history between the two places.
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Statistically there is enough voter fraud to sway zero elections.
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So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was — but I wanted to be there.
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I was a fan of The Daily Show I watched it,I never imagined being on it, but I figured I would just go down there and do my best Stephen Colbert impression.
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People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.
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In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.
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In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
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Paki- bashing was kind of this term that was used in general to beat up anyone that was from the Indian subcontinent.
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Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia.
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When my family decided to leave England I could not have been happier. I was sort of like - America seemed like the land of opportunity and, you know, it was Hollywood to me.
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