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There a lot of stereotypes those are commonly associated with Indians. Indians are all nerds and good at math, which is not necessarily true and I am an example. I have had people in the US assume that because I am Indian I must be good at math and I hate math. Indians eat curries everyday, which is again not true, India is a richly diverse country with a ton of different cuisines and not all of them include curry. Indians only speak “Hindu” actually Hindi and English is not very common, however on the contrary, most Indians speak English as it is taught in most schools and we have 20 different languages and many dialects apart from Hindi. Another common stereotype is all Indians have a funny accent like Apu from Simpsons and it surprises

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