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DRAMA MAMA

i'm banned from india

DRAMA MAMA

BENOFTHEWEEK

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4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode of Drama Mama, your host Ben shares a personal tale of travel woes as he reveals how government actions have disrupted his long-cherished plans to visit India. Ben embarks on a journey through the tangled web of international relations, dissecting the reasons why various countries find themselves at odds and how these geopolitical rifts have inadvertently impacted his wanderlust. Tune in to hear Ben's thoughtful analysis of the complex interplay between global politics and personal aspirations, and gain insight into the unforeseen hurdles that travelers like him must navigate in an increasingly interconnected yet uncertain world. Join Ben for a light-hearted discussion on the power of diplomacy and its unintended consequences on individual plans. Watch the podcast on YouTube: https://bit.ly/DramaMamaYouTube Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link: https://bit.ly/DramaMamaBENOFTHEWEEK If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be helpful! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: https://bit.ly/DramaMamaBENOFTHEWEEK Follow Ben on YouTube Follow Ben on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good morning, drama mamas, or good evening, or wherever you are, my mamas of drama.

0:10.8

I'm coming from a place, coming you from a place of anger, a little bit of resentment,

0:17.7

a lot of frustration, and it's all blending together into a beautiful cup of tea.

0:26.2

I was fucking spelled on my, like, awesome.

0:31.0

I can't go to the country of India, and I was literally about to go in a week.

0:39.0

And I'd like to get into the goofy goddamn reason why.

0:45.2

So I was, um, all my life have never been to India despite having part Indian heritage.

0:58.5

Okay, there's like been, I know, like, people who are not Indian that are in my life that,

1:03.8

like, go on the whole, like, white girl yoga ashram cleanse. They're like, I just need to,

1:08.5

like, find myself and I need to be grounded. And they, um, plant themselves in, like,

1:13.0

the middle of rural India and, like, they, like, leave their phone in, like, a locker for three

1:18.4

weeks and they're like, I'm going to find myself in fine spiritual. In, like, all that shit.

1:23.1

And, like, like, people who have no business going to India have gone before I've gone,

1:29.5

which is kind of crazy. And there's like multiple reasons for that. Okay, there's, you know,

1:34.7

um, the good old, uh, internalized racism that I had that made me not want to go to India.

1:43.0

Um, mostly from, I don't know, like, people at school being like, hey, little curry muncher,

1:49.4

shit like that, um, which made me not really want to associate with the race that I was,

1:55.1

which is really sad. And happens, not just for India's, you know, that's like, uh, um,

2:00.9

that, that is a phenomenon that can happen for a lot of different people from a lot of different

2:05.6

races, um, when being, uh, minority in a predominantly white area or school or situation,

2:17.7

it, it happens and it somewhat happened to me. But, um, there had been opportunities for me to

2:22.7

go to India, uh, when I was like younger, um, with my family, like, literally my whole family

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