[Sonny M]

Its a good thing VJ isn't around, from what I've read, he's a pretty grumpy guy. On a side note, I love the way the media gets confused about other races, to them, everyone has to be, arab, black, white, spanish (and this one confuses the hell out of everybody) or oriental. If somone is not black or white, they get the non-white category?

One thing to note, this country does not have a history of discriminating against Indians or Hispanics, contrare to false but popular belief.

[visualops]

Don't you know you're not allowed to say oriental anymore? ;^)

Despite being born in Fiji, a good many Indians consider Vijay one of their own, part of the Indian diaspora.

As an aside, the assumption that Indians are either Hindi or Sikhs is erroneous. I had 2 good friends in NYC years ago who emigrated from India, working as nannies while acquiring permanent status. They were both Christians.