Priyanka Chopra posted tis picture earlier (courtesy: priyankachopra)

New Delhi:

Priyanka Chopra just lately stepped into British Vogue‘s photograph sales space to delve into her intensive Instagram archive. One of the Instagram photos she spoke about was The Simpsons‘ model of Priyanka’s wedding ceremony to Nick Jonas. She stated, “To be on The Simpsons in my wedding dress was really fun and ironic considering Apu was the bane of my life when I was growing up. Everybody kept asking, why don’t I speak like Apu (Nahasapeemapetilon), why my accent wasn’t like Apu.” Priyanka spent her teenagers in USA – “everybody” is presumably her fellow college students whereas she was in school in America. Apu, an Indian character on the beloved animated sequence, has been extensively criticised in recent times as perpetuating racial stereotypes and solely seems as a background character in The Simpsons now.

Priyanka Chopra, who had beforehand revealed in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that she was bullied at her highschool in America, added,  “Apu had a really exaggerated Indian accent as we all know.”  The actress was 13 when she flew to the US to dwell along with her family. Priyanka spent her teenage years at American excessive faculties, the place she was focused by fellow college students for being a brown particular person. “I think high school is hard anywhere, right? And to be coming of age, to understand your body as a woman and at the same time, to be devalued for something I can’t change or you know, I wasn’t even aware of the fact that this was something I should feel embarrassed about. But I guess when I was made to feel like, did my clothes smelled funny when I walked by the hallway or did people smell curry or little things like that at 16 are so detrimental to a sense of self-worth, your sense of self. It’s just about being mean, trying to hurt someone,” She had said on the show Super Soul. 

Now, let us focus on Apu Nahasapeemapetilon and the controversy around the owner of Kwik-E-Mart in the fictional town of Springfield. Those of you who have followed the show would know that Apu was considered problematic. His character was made up entirely of South Asian stereotypes. Not to forget, Apu was a PhD who worked at a store. He was also an illegal immigrant. The Problem With Apu, the 2017documentary by Hari Kondabolu, was considered as “racism against the community”. Speaking to BBC,  Hari Kondabolu had stated, “The Simpsons is a crucial murals that has influenced so many, together with myself. Apu was the one Indian we had on TV in any respect so I used to be blissful for any illustration as a child. And in fact, he is humorous, however that does not imply this illustration is correct or proper or righteous. It will get to the insidiousness of racism, although, since you do not even discover it when it is proper in entrance of you. It turns into so regular that you do not even give it some thought.”