The South Asian diaspora has long been polarized over issues of identity and representation. In the mid-2010s, a heated debate emerged between those who sympathized with stories of bullying based on lunch preferences and those who viewed these claims as privileged attempts to define themselves through childhood racial slights. As the debate has subsided, it’s given way to a broader realization that the era’s identity politics oversimplified the diverse cultural experiences of millions, reducing them to simplistic labels like “White kids made fun of my lunch.”
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