Pabba’s 32nd Year

Strangers

Lea Thau

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Imagine if your parents had access to your online dating profile. That happened to Pabba.

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0:00.0	Welcome to strangers from KCIW and Radiotopia. I'm Leah Tau. And this is Paba talking to our producer Laura.
0:10.9	Okay, we're on the profile now. And what's it called again?
0:14.0	Shadi.com. And what does that mean? Marriage.com. Just straight to it.
0:22.4	Shadi is a dating site for people of Indian descent in the U.S.
0:26.3	Like Paba.
0:27.6	He came here with his parents when he was two,
0:29.9	and last year when he'd recently turned 31,
0:32.1	he made a profile on shoddy.com.
0:36.5	Can you read it for me? My parents made me change it because it hasn't been working.
0:41.3	Because they have access.
0:43.3	They have access and they saw it.
0:44.3	They were like, that's no good.
0:45.3	That's no good.
0:46.3	So like they toned it down and they also changed my pictures.
0:50.3	What?
0:51.3	Yeah.
0:52.3	I had a picture of me with like no sleeves on and I was like playing a record at a bar
1:02.0	and they're like this is too trashy.
1:04.0	Hey, that's it.
1:05.0	That is it.
1:06.0	They chose a good photo though.
1:07.0	Your parents, that's a nice photo.
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