Our Story Was Theirs: South Asian Americans Before 1800
<p>The South Asian presence in the US is often treated like a recent phenomenon, something which accompanied the software boom which began in the 1980s. Depictions of us in popular media almost always show us in some sort of engineering capacity. I’m starting to think that a large number of American television producers genuinely believe that South Asians are born with computer chargers instead of umbilical cords.</p>
<p>The truth, as it always is, differs quite significantly. Of course not all South Asians work in technology – and, perhaps more significantly, the first South Asian Americans arrived on this continent over two hundred years before Microsoft was founded. We have a long and storied past in this nation, and I’d like to devote space on my blog to discussing it.</p>
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