Oreo's Observations

I decided I wanted to practice what the last sample essay taught me- attack the reader. So Sara Zachariah this was for you.   Everyday I leave English class with a red-headed gremlin attacking my vertically challenged stature. But that’s not how she says it, because she is the least politically correct person I have ever known. She shamelessly draws monkeys on the table to depict her brown friends in her monstrous portraits. She derogatorily dubs me the title of a “Northie” while proceeding to wince in disgust. She stereotypes people and pokes fun at them. “Sometimes people do dumb stuff and fall in the toilet-mostly drunk people”.    As a result…well…I think it’s pretty clear when you see her walk alone in the hallways.  She only seems to be polite when she wants something, which is almost always attention. She hugs you or not so subtly compliments you. I can’t give you a quote for this though because I think she gave up on this strategy a long time ago. Even if you...

To those that aren't American born, or Desi, and are just confused, this stereotype refers to those of South Asian descent who speak broken Hindi, Tamil, etc. It's those who get scammed by local vendors in their country because they don't know any better and/or the vendors smell your fresh American blood. Those who can't cross the streets alone because the roads are too threatening with motorcycles and rickshaws in every direction. Those who order the spiciest of foods not realizing how weak their tolerance level is in their American body.  I was curious how other Indians felt on this term I find rather hilarious, so I scrolled on Quora for some unhinged opinions as I usually do when I find myself in the inescapable depths of the internet.  "the majority of us Desi-Americans are redefining what it means to be an ABCD. We have changed it from American Born CONFUSED Desi to American Born CONFIDENT Desi." Yes...but not really. I personally find this label true to...

I Guess I’m Only Tough On Stains Because My Dad Was So Tough On Me Psychology has taught us that our behaviors stem from early childhood treatment. No matter how we act today we somehow always find a way to connect it back to our parents, our past, and our (valid or overdramatized) trauma. The Onion satirizes this through the article above. By personifying a laundry detergent, it mocks predictable human behavior. “About a year ago, I caught myself completely flipping out over a drop of marinara on an old sweatshirt and thought, ‘Oh God, what am I doing? This is exactly what Dad did to me.’” It exemplifies humanlike qualities of a guilty and apologetic tone. By taking an object as plain as laundry detergent and creating its own traumas, its reactions seem completely ridiculous and overdramatized.  It also exaggerates our traumas though the analogy of a "wash cycle of abuse", unveiling how absurd our accusations that we often consider valid and don’t question may be. We ove...