![]() ![]() That’s why my name is Russell Peters instead of something you’d be more likely to expect for a guy who looks like me, both of whose parents were born in India. Anglo-Indians, or AI’s, mixed with the British when they occupied India. Somewhere in your genes is a British father and an Indian mother. ![]() Both of their parents were Anglo-Indian, and before that one of their greatgrandfathers or great-great-grandfathers was British, Welsh, Scottish or Irish-one of those ishes. Anglo-Indian, South-Asian, South-Asian-Canadian? Jeez, even I’m confused. Both of my parents are Anglo-Indian. They just call me Russell. To me, I’m just a comedian who happens to be Indian. To my friends and family, though, there’s no hyphen. people think it needs to be qualified by something else. I guess that’s what happens when you’re the first at something. Obviously, I’m not the first stand-up comic in the world, but I know that I’m the first stand-up who looks like me, and the first to have done some of the things I’ve done. There’s always that hyphen: South-Asian comic, Indo-Canadian comic, South-Asian-Canadian comic, Canadian-born-Indian comic, Brampton-raised stand-up comic. No matter how people describe me, there’s always something before my name or my profession. Summary: CHAPTER 1 CALL ME RUSSELL I’M NEVER just a comic. ![]()
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