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Couldn't stand RAJ.

posted 16 years ago by TheEmulator23
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I liked this idea except for that overly effeminate Raj. He was just a waste of space and completely self-centered, arrogant, & of all things a freaking racist. He would have been fired had it been real. Kept hoping he would get knocked down a few notches not just on the show, but in his real life. What a jerk.

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[–] horrorfanaticgirl 16 years ago

I agree. I was laughing when he was talking to the other Indians and they were not agreeing with him on a lot of things, I just thought that was funny.

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[–] SadakoGirl 14 years ago

I felt bad for him too. It's like he's not quite family, not quite a servant. At least the true servants have each other. They can talk to each other, commiserate, complain, bitch about the master--Mr. Raj Singh had no one, other than Avril, really.

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[–] cookiela2001 8 years ago

I felt bad for him too. It's like he's not quite family, not quite a servant. At least the true servants have each other. They can talk to each other, commiserate, complain, bitch about the master--Mr. Raj Singh had no one, other than Avril, really.

Governesses (I don't know so much about male tutors) were in an awkward position, because they were usually as a rule higher-born women who had fallen on economic hardship. (Otherwise they wouldn't be working.) So while they were more from the same class as their employers vs. the servants, they weren't equals with the family at all.

As you said, they were not equals with the other servants, either...as they were more elevated.

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[–] onepotato2 12 years ago

You're not isolated and discriminated against because you're Indian Raj. You're isolated because you think you're Bette Davis; caressing chairs, averting your eyes when talking to men you like, preening, making campy, lascivious faces, being overdramatic.

[–] ophelia_hardin 11 years ago

I've met folks like that: always but always Put Upon. Too bad he couldn't let go of the chip on his shoulder because the kid he was tutoring was smart as a whip and could have been a great companion.

[–] donnaber 10 years ago

What?? What gave you the impression he was smart and/or would make a good "companion" for a grown man? You sound daft.

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[–] harlot-2 10 years ago

Some of you sound mighty homophobic.

[–] donnaber 10 years ago

Well you sound homophobic, which is just as bad as racist.

[–] BadPuppy82 8 years ago

In reality, Raj would have been a high born... possibly higher than his employers. He may have even been royalty. He was then brought to England to be a tutor (and thus, part of the lower classes), but not allowed to fraternize with other servants.

That would be highly awkward, to say the least.

I do agree that he was kind of shady, though.