Sardars in Mumbai

Question

Two sardars landed up in Bombay. They managed to get into a double-decker bus. Santa Singh somehow managed to get a bottom seat, But unfortunate Banta got pushed to the top. After a while when the rush was over, Santa went upstairs to see friend Banta Singh. He met Banta in a bad condition clutching the seats in front with both hands, scared to death. He says, "Arre Banta Singh ! What the heck's goin' on? Why are you so scared ?
I was enjoying my ride down there ?
Scared Banta replies. "Yeah, but you've got a driver."

Suthish Nair · Answer

Sam If you ask a person from India which categories of jokes are famous bet the answer will be sardar jokes. Even sardar jokes websites are there. Somr people takes emotionally or some will ignore it. Due to these excessive kind of stupid jokes most of the people treat sardars badly or makes funny oof them. I normally ignore or delete these kinds of mails or jokes.

Sam Hobbs · Answer

Yes this is the Fun and Jokes forum and the fact that the owners of the C# Corner web site provides this forum the implication is that they want fun and jokes posted in this forum. Yes Americans joke about (dumb) blonds but many blonds might not appreciate all the jokes. Americans also joke about Polish and Jewish people. The critical difference is whether the people making jokes intend to laugh with the person they are joking about or laugh at the people they are joking about. That makes a huge difference. I think people in India need to be careful about making jokes about blonds since there are not many blonds in India. Right? I think it is very important to warn people in a culture in which there are very few blonds that blond jokes could easily be considered innapropriate. If this joke about Sardars is intended to imply that Sardars are stupid and if there is nothing fundamental about Sardars that they do that this is a joke about other than the implication that they are stupid then many people are likely to object (consider it to be innapropriate).

Mamta M · Answer

Ok point taken. There was nothing in it for me to be taken personally since I am not from that community. But I did notice this trend often and decided to put in my two cents worth.

Madhu K · Answer

May be you did not check that it is a fun and jokes forum which meant to post jokes in here which has nothing to do with technical stuff. Secondly cracking jokes on them that doesnt mean they are seen low in society. Like Canadians use Newfoundlanders (Noofies) Brits use the Irish. Westerners (in general) use Blonds... From a humor perspective they are all stereotypical equivalents. Probably you missed the humor in there and took it personally.

Mamta M · Answer

I think posting such stuff on a public forum that is intended to solve technical queries shows bad taste on your part. Perhaps you were not aware so I am just informing you please refrain from sharing such jokes here. And by the way I have often seen that cracking jokes about Sardars is a frequent pastime but people rarely notice the fact that Sardars are a fierce and proud community so much so that you won't find a single Sardar beggar in the entire country. They will do any menial work with utmost dignity and pride but will never beg. And you will see hundreds of gurudwaras (holy shrines of Sardars) which distribute free food regularly I haven't seen many other communities doing this on regular basis (yes many do sometimes but they don't do it on daily basis whereas Sardars hold free meal sessions for the poor and underprivileged every single day). Think about these things the next time you hear/forward a Sardar joke. We are all in favour of good humor and fun but it can be decent without mocking other communities (esp on a regular basis).