UCISA - University of Canterbury Indian Students' Association

Does any of this sound familiar?

o There is a sale on any item, you buy 100 of them.
o You go back to your parents' country and people treat you like a member of the royal family.
o You have cousins you have never met, whose names you don't know, but who insist they're related to you, even though they bear NO resemblance to anyone YOU know.
o Your parents push the concept of an arranged marriage on you and try and demonstrate how well it works whenever they're not fighting.
o Your parents compare you to all of their friends' kids.
o The second you pull out of someone's driveway, your parent's start talking about them.
o Your parent's always say: "It's cheaper in India".
o Your parents tell you not to care about what your friends think of you, but when you get a boyfriend/girlfriend they always care about what the rest of your relatives will say.
o You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's house.
o Your parents don't realize phone connections to foreign countries have improved in the last two decades, and still scream at the top of their lungs while talking.

If any one of these brings a smile on to your face or reminds you off your past then this is the place for you. Lets come together to share these moments with each other.


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