Timeline for What would you call a person from India?
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| Feb 15, 2014 at 13:53 | comment | added | Milind R | @KinjalDixit Are you saying there does not exist any real (tradition by itself does not count) positive connotations about it? I have seen quite a bit of the "Not imported" meaning to it. | |
| Feb 15, 2014 at 13:41 | comment | added | Kinjal Dixit | @MilindR In a positive sense in has the meaning of 'home-cooked' or 'home-grown' or tradition. In a negative, derogatory sense it has the meaning of poor quality or 'ghetto'. | |
| Feb 14, 2014 at 14:47 | comment | added | Milind R | @KinjalDixit Nowadays it's come to mean, more and more, indigenous or "pure". | |
| Aug 15, 2013 at 15:14 | comment | added | user49815 | I will not like if someone call me desi. Indian is much better word | |
| Aug 15, 2013 at 13:24 | comment | added | mikhailcazi | I don't think desi is appropriate because it literally means 'a citizen of our country'. So if you're not Indian, calling a person from India 'desi' would not be correct. | |
| Jul 9, 2012 at 6:09 | comment | added | Kinjal Dixit | Within India, the term desi has rustic, villager, steeped in tradition, narrow minded and behind the times connotations. | |
| Feb 19, 2012 at 19:09 | comment | added | karthik | Desi, or Deshi, as in pure Sanskrit basically means of the nation. So, it actually sounds slightly offensive if used by someone else. Its like using a homegrown term. Unless in jocular sense, I dont think this should be used. | |
| Nov 24, 2011 at 17:16 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | I don't think "desi" is likely to be understood by the average reader. | |
| May 12, 2011 at 10:42 | comment | added | Amit G | I would agree with Amanda here, don't refer to an Indian as a desi if you're not one :) | |
| Mar 29, 2011 at 14:45 | comment | added | Amanda | I think of "desi" as kind of an insider term. It shares a derivation with "diaspora" but I've never heard someone who is not also of the South Asian diaspora refer to a South Asian (or an Indian) as a desi. | |
| Feb 10, 2011 at 20:44 | history | answered | fortunate1 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |