- These days we try and use our own word for homeboy so we just call ourselves desis.
- She experienced the "confused desi" phenomenon after she moved to the United States as a child, and felt conflicted about her East Indian roots.
- As desis established themselves in the community, they found it important to become involved in the political arena.
- A group of young Desis chats over coffee, complaining about generalizations such as the widespread assumption that Indian kids are perfect students.
desi
adjective
Indian English uk
/ˈdeɪ.si/ us
/ˈdeɪ.si/- Ghee is also sometimes called desi (country-made) ghee to distinguish it from "vegetable ghee".
- Caramelized onions are used as the base for almost every desi dish you can think of.
- The two characters are like a snapshot of modernizing India: one English-speaking, foreign-influenced and affluent; the other desi, or traditional.
- The Eighties London sound was a bit more innovative and mixed with other genres of music, whereas Birmingham was desi because the community was solid Punjabi and Sikh.
- Americanization
- anti-classical
- anti-conventional
- anti-institutional
- anti-traditional
- conventionally
- costume
- counter-tradition
- crowd
- custom
- mores
- multicultural
- multiculturalism
- multiculturally
- non-classical
- traditionally
- ultra-conservatism
- ultra-conservative
- ultra-traditional
- unconventional
