Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
To be honest, I'm simply amazed it's taken America this long to work out that the Apu stereotype is a touch problematic.

No British programme with a character like that would have been commissioned in the last 35 years. Look at poor old 'It ain't half hot, mum'. Apu got a pass on British telly purely because the people writing and voicing the character were American rather than British.
Congratulation! You are the first poster on AWIMB I have seen using the word 'problematic' in this context.

Normally I expect to see it on a site I occasionally frequent with a predominantly left-liberal North American population.