Now, besides knowing the common lingual, it is also imperative that you are well versed with a few slang or swear words. Often in desperate situations when you need to prove to others that you are a true Indian, you MUST throw ‘saale’ and ‘kutte’ every now and then when talking to a boy of your age, or even ‘bc’ or ‘mc’ when required (you can search those two terms on google later on). Remember one thing, expressions are very important when delivering the Hindi slangs, it adds to your benefit. Watch couple of Indian movies like ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’ with English subtitles, to fully understand the places where you can throw in those derogative terms.
4. Never tell where you’re actually from.
What happens if you don’t know jack about your native place? No problemo, here are the list of cities you can throw around:
- Delhi : A hub where people come in from everywhere in India. Talk about metro, Haldirams, and spoilt drunk kids driving luxury cars without license…
- Mumbai: Another hub, just talk about random night clubs or crammed apartments and how the pollution is just suffocating, or how you randomly saw some movie star cross paths with you.
- Banglore: Another industrial hub of India where graduates usually end up settling. This could be your safe option since Banglorians aren’t really like the rest of the Indians, your English is enough to convince someone that you’re from Banglore.
3. Forget the forks.
2. Bollywood > Hollywood?
There are many who watch Hollywood movies, but that fraction is small. Many watch Hollywood movies dubbed in Hindi, so they may not understand the epic dialogues which you’d really wanna talk about. Scan the person in front of you and then decide, whether to talk about Hollywood or Bollywood. The other ‘woods’ in India aren't all that important so yeah, indulge into the Bollywood drama.
1. Compromise on Important Issues and Fight on Nonsensical ones.
I have generalized a lot, not to mention use stereotypes to help you adjust into the Indian society, but believe me, we Indians do live up to those stereotypes. These 5 points should be enough to give you a basic idea of what it takes to settle into your Indian culture when you've spent your whole life outside. There are people who are understanding and will help you out, whilst there are some who might try to exploit you at some point. Learn to differentiate between those two categories of people and for the douche bags, apply these 5 points into your conversation to make them believe that you are a true desi.