I loooove ethnic jokes and telling them. If we can be less serious about ourselves, we can enjoy our wonderful differences from others.
I tell people I can tell ethnic jokes because I'm Cherokee/Norwegian, and you can't get much more screwed up than that.
I'm not sure about the Indian heritage, but I do know one thing, and am thinking of having this put on my ridin' vest:
"I am a AMERCAN, what the hell are you?"
Maybe I'll follow suit with:
"I'm a member of the human race, what the hell are you?"
The problem I have noticed about the telling of ethnic jokes is that the joke teller often thinks his jokes about OTHER groups are hilarious but when someone tells a joke about HIS particular group,he gets really offended.