South Asians Are All the Way Asian

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I was a placemat kid.

In my younger days, I had an educational placemat for just about everything: the world map, the planets, numbers, you name it. I look back and count myself as blessed.

I paid attention to what was on my placemats as much as, if not more than, the food I was supposed to be eating. I loved my multicolored continents awash in…