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Desis Trying to Crash the Super Bowl

You didn’t believe me when I told you that Brown was the new Black?
Koi Naa (don’t worry). I’ll forgive you — but you’re going to have to take it up with these bruthas…

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India boasts the world’s second fastest-growing economy and its second biggest populous. It’s home to the world’s oldest temples, fanciest resorts and tastiest restaurants (including Bill Clinton’s favorite).
But, just yesterday, once and for all, they finally hoisted themselves onto the world stage. And all it took was a little R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
By the powers that be — […]

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You may not have seen it, but its out there. Just in case you wanted to check. To confirm your suspicions that not all Pakistanis are terrorists.
After the jump is a music video that came from the collaboration of 8 pop singers in Pakistan who want to clarify? what our Western eyes might be seeing, […]

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Hip-Hop to Bump on MTV Arabia

Mutter as they might, the mullahs in the Middle East are going to have to watch globalization take another bite into the culture-cake they?re trying to bake. According to Business Week, Viacom is expanding. To their constituents.
In a month, the new MTV Arabia will broadcast across the oil-fed region, bringing Snoop and shoop and […]

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I?ve seen a firework char a boy?s face, a group of friends light a fat kid on fire, and a skateboarder who fell so hard he added another joint to his forearm ? all on YouTube. But when I went looking for what the kids in Iran were up to, I found content that YouTube […]

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