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The term American-born confused desi first appeared in the movie American Desi (2001). [citation needed] ABCD: American-Born Confused Desi is a 2013 Malayalam ...
American Desi is a 2001 Indian-American comedy film.It is notable for featuring many prominent South Asian American actors and features an a cappella version by Penn Masala of Nazia Hassan's classic "Aap Jaisa Koi", originally from the Indian film Qurbani.
Indian Americans are people with ancestry from India who are citizens or permanent residents of the United States.The terms Asian Indian and East Indian are used to avoid confusion with Native Americans in the United States, who are also referred to as "Indians" or "American Indians".
In 2017, the member organizations unanimously voted to add Desi to its formal name, a word describing people from the Indian subcontinent or South Asia, and in doing so adopted the acronym APIDA, to explicitly reflect their service of groups with South Asian membership.
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A map of the Indian subcontinent, depicting the republics of Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan from which Desis originate [1]. Desi [a] (/ ˈ d eɪ s i / or / ˈ d ɛ s i / [2] DAY-see or DESS-ee; Hindustani: देसी (), دیسی (Perso-Arabic), Hindustani:) [b] also Deshi, is a loose term used to describe the peoples, cultures, and products of the Indian subcontinent and their diaspora, [4 ...