Indian Style

I had an ephiphany last weekend. I had been talking to an Indian man while I was walking around Mamallapuram looking at carvings in caves. We had talked about how I was a student in Hyderabad and had been in India for about a month and a half. After looking at all of the carvings, I went to his shop - just to humor him. He asked me to sit on the floor while he showed me his artwork. So I sat down crosslegged. He looked at me and said with a huge smile, "Aaah, you are so Indian already! You sit in the Indian style, yah?" Cue epiphany. The phrase "to sit Indian style" doesn't refer to Native Americans, it refers to the people of the Subcontinent! So, whoever told Mum & the rest of the teachers that they had to start saying 'sit criss-cross applesauce' to avoid making a derogatory comment was misinformed.