Personally I don't feel too bothered by it, but that's mostly because I didn't spend my whole life growing up in the west. And it's not like we ourselves don't make fun of these same sex pests all the time, it's not like we don't constantly do the exaggerated indian-uncle accent as a joke. But I imagine for some desi kid who grew up as a minority and had to constantly deal with hearing things like "thank you, come again" from people who don't look like them, it must be harmful.

During my college years, a white guy once told me that I smell like curry, it was just a joke, he wasn't being malicious, just some friendly banter. But it hurt me so much that I think I never touched curry for many years, even though I love curry. So I can absolutely understand how it must feel different when you know the person making fun of your culture or your people is an outsider.

But at the same time to me it feels somewhat hypocritical to claim something like oh you can't make fun of desi people unless you are one yourself, you can't do the indian accent unless you are one yourself. After all no brit has ever been offended by me making fun of their absolutely awful food or their weird accents. So honestly I don't know how to feel about this, maybe the only way forward is more representation of brown people in media and by normalizing the idea that subcontinental people can be as diverse and different from each other as any other group. So that even if stereotypes exist and are being made fun of by everyone, the indian kids growing up can still have some examples to look at and tell themselves - no it's not my ethnicity that is the butt of the joke, it's just silly behavior of some individuals that is being mocked. And I think Master of None is such a perfect example of this, we need more shows like master of none.