My friends are like, "That's all we see on TV.
Either you Asian people are shopkeepers or terrorists."
Asians in Birmingham do not dress like that.
People could relate that guy to me
and I don't want to be associated with him!
I've come across that a lot, people say, "Oh, you Paki,
"you probably done, like, the 9/11 bombings.
"Oh, your family are from Al-Qaeda, yeah?
"When's your brother going to go and join, like, the Taliban?"
You can't touch sensitive topics like that
and portray an image that's not true.
If someone thought that that's how I lived
then I'd be offended.
Quick, quick, no time to cook them.
They will plump in my stomach.
HE BELCHES
Whoo! Hello, beautiful.
No ring, I see.
So you are only arranged to be married.
Don't worry, I'll tell everybody you were untouchable.
I don't think that's a fair portrayal of Asians,
but...it is quite funny. THEY LAUGH
Throwing them in the water!
Throw them in the water.
He was all eating all the free food. Yeah.
Is that what Indian men do?
Go to parties and eat all the free food?
But I don't know. The same with their accent all the time.
I mean, I take it, it's funny.
In the olden days, they were showing these as stereotypes.
But it's not entirely representative.
I mean, I've always had, "Oh, Reianna, is your dad Apu?
"Because I know your dad's got a shop."
I mean, it's got much better.
I remember, many years ago, when we were...
You know, it was the whole "bud-bud-ding-ding" thing.
It was related to the accent, really.
He was known as "bud-bud-ding-ding."
Was that a nickname? Mum, do you remember that? Yes.
Do you remember "bud-bud-ding-ding"?
Look at this!
On special discount from cash-and-carry. Good, huh?
This is too many.
It's not too many.
We're always running out
because you lot use too much.
What are you talking about?
Chillax! I'm only joking.
Luckily for you, you are married to a Pakistani businessman, eh?
I don't know, I just don't think he's that funny.
He's, like, just stupid.
Asians in Birmingham do not dress like that.
Funny. You think that's funny? You think it's funny. Yeah.
People could relate that guy to me
and I don't want to be associated with him.
I know, I know where you're coming from. That's what it is.
I know where you're coming from.
I think the one thing that does bother me,
and I think especially with the whole gender roles in Asian families
is, "You're married to a Pakistani businessman."
Apparently that's meant to solve all of life's issues.
You're not too offended that they're showing Pakistanis like that? You liked it?'
All right, Mum quite enjoyed it. They're joking. It's a joke.
It's true, also, you know?
I mean, I do, I go to Costco's to get toilet roll.
THEY LAUGH Because it's cheaper in there!
You say this to me. "Why do you use so much toilet roll?"
Yeah, yeah. Save the toilet roll we've got.
She says it to me actually quite a lot at home.
"Don't use so much toilet roll! You use so much."
I'm sorry. Is it a luxury?
I'm not into all that arranged marriage thing, though.
I mean, I'm touched and that,
that you two want me to consider your daughters.
I'll consider it.
I'll consider it, innit?
MAN CHUCKLES
Our daughters?!
Are you bloody joking?
I'd rather she did a suicide bombing.
Oh, that's a... I would put the vest on her myself.
Fucking hell.
I didn't like that comment about the suicide bomb.
You can have a laugh here and there, you can display what we're like,
but now you're just making us look like...terrorists.
There's nothing I'd find humorous about it, to be honest with you.
I don't think it's acceptable, really,
to be just stereotyping any Muslim as a suicide bomber,
but then, in a lot of people's eyes,
they think actually that's OK
because it's a Muslim himself saying it.
It actually makes me a little bit more angry
that it's coming from a Pakistani.
What's there stopping the thought that if a Muslim says it
about themself, why can't we say it? Exactly.
Like, this is the first thing out of the majority of things
that you've shown me that...
This is, like, actually presenting British Asians as normal people
that fit into society, just by the clothes that he is wearing.
Like, he's wearing, like, a snapback with a bomber jacket.
If there's this world perception that Muslims are so extreme
in their views that they're prepared to go to such lengths,
there's always this danger because I'm brown.
Am I going to be seen as, you know, in that negative light as well?
Oh, my friends are like, "That's all we see on TV.
Either you Asian people are shopkeepers or terrorists." 00:04:47.880,00:00:00.000 Yeah, but that's the thing, that's why you need to challenge it.