-- Have you experienced disparities of advantage and disadvantage in your own South Asian communities?
-- Does social class allow certain desis to pursue art as a profession over others? Is it indicative of privilege?
-- Have values and ethics brought to your life by the diaspora impacted your own art and human experience in any way?
-- Can (does) art reflect privilege? If so, in what ways?
-- Does social class determine our exposure and which artists garner more recognition or a larger platform?
-- How can South Asian communities move forward to be more inclusive and accepting?
-- When discussing marginalization of brown folks, is it necessary to also discuss class dynamics? Are we all necessarily "equal?"
-- Does being an offspring of wealthy desi parents with "respected" professions create for more fluidity in expression?

Readings discussed:

The Two Asian Americas
By Karan Mahajan
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-two-asian-americas

The staggering difference between rich Asian Americans and poor Asian Americans
By Jeff Guo
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/12/20/why-asian-americans-arent-as-rich-as-they-seem/?utm_term=.e84f557e1f10

Spearheading a Survey of Caste in South Asian Diasporas
Valliammal Karunakaran
https://medium.com/@Bahujan_Power/pioneering-a-survey-of-caste-in-the-diasporas-6e5a27cd82ef#.b10wt8jy4

The Asian disadvantage (that's being ignored) by Tanzina Vega
http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/14/news/economy/asian-americans-disadvantage/

6 Reasons We Need to Dismantle the Model Minority Myth of Those ‘Hard-Working’ Asians
By Rachel Kuo
http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/04/dismantle-model-minority-myth/