It seems like this video has affected many Nepalese people in many different levels. It also points out the fact that different people in different societies have different sense of humor. In countries like North Korea, people can be jailed for making fun of politicians. In countries like Nepal, people can burn movie theaters when indian actors say wrong things about Nepal. In countries like America, people can make fun of the president and it's all fine and good.

There is no middle ground when it comes to poking fun at people but the common unwritten law is that when something is deemed funny, it's generally okay to laugh at it. We laugh at Russell Peters comedy making fun of different Chinese accents. Tap some bong it is, but when someone makes fun of a Nepali person's English, people are very defensive about it. The comedy is about the particular situation or circumstance. It should not go beyond that moment itself to make a huge outcry over something that can be perceived as funny by Americans. If a Nepali TV showed an American trying to speak Nepali but failing then it could be deemed funny by Nepalis but no American would be trying to dig out the history of that person and say he is Nobel Prize Winner he does not need to speak Nepali in Nepal. Why does everything need to be judged in the patriotic scale? Just because a Nepali was poked fun at, we have to defend him since we have such low self esteem collectively as Nepalis?

I guess we Nepali folks do not have too much sense of humor and  we do have a lot of time in our hands to make big issues about non issues. Don't get me wrong though. At the end of the day, we can take it as a win win situation because Mr. Subedi got a good publicity about his work and I hope there will be more people who will be interested in helping handicapped Nepalis.