Indian culture is essentially much more of a we culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
Aasif MandviThe experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
Aasif MandviThe Daily Show writers are incredibly smart and very well plugged-in but occasionally they would need me for certain specific things, and I'd be like, 'Yeah, I completely know how to do that; I can solve that problem,and then I'd be like, 'Mom?
Aasif MandviI'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.
Aasif MandviThere's this existential crisis in America and in the West of, like - who am I? - based on this searching for individual fulfillment, which you don't necessarily have in the East in the same way because you're kind of told what to do. I'm not saying one is better than the other, I'm just saying that's just, like, the reality.
Aasif Mandvi