is your race of people scarce enough that you don't get confused when people ask you if you know a specific person? (seriously asking)
I'm kinda on the tail end of that generation where asking if I know Akhmed Dasguptaroychowdury isn't terribly strange.
Well, no...I take that back.
It rarely yields results NOW but when I was growing up there was definitely a good chance that either I knew them or my parents at least knew of theirs. But in the last 15 years there has been a significant influx of Bengali immigrants. But if the person is around my age, I give it a shot anyway.
Oh and the reason I noted that his friend's parents being doctors would increase the chances of me knowing them is because for about 15 of the first 21 years of my life, I would go with my family to the annual BMA* meeting in the summer (Bangladesh Medical Association...now BMANA to add "North America"). So a lot of Bangladeshi doctors from all over the continent would go to these with their families; I basically had friends all over the country that I "grew up with" by seeing them each summer and I would also meet a lot of new kids each year...it was pretty amazing =D [haven't been to one in years but I think it's in Vegas this year around 4th of July so **** yeaaaah I'm goin XD]
*Read if you're interested
It's a conference that was founded by my dad and some of his classmates/upper classmen at Dhaka Medical College who ended up moving to the States. They convene each year to share research and plan/execute charity work [a product of which is Project Bangladesh -
http://projectbangladeshonline.org/ which builds/funds free clinics in the slums/villages of Bangladesh]. The conference is also intended to keep the community close as well as keeping others connected to the Bangladeshi community who might not have one relatively close to where they live. There's Bangladeshi food/dancing/songs and stuff put on by adults/kids throughout the weekend so it helps to keep the culture alive and educate Americanized brownies like myself on "where we come from."
Toasty should totally get on AIM.
Like srsly
I just closed my store at 11:30, when I started writing this post...but now I'm about to go to SleepyK's for a fest ^_^
*pound* =D