Stéréotypes

While Appuhamy shone in the house, Premawathi shone in the kitchen, looking for all the world like a typical English housewife preparing for a typically English celebration.
"It's all so strange," the Sudu Nona was heard to say to similar-minded magazine-reading, tea-drinking English ladies. "Not only does she speak passable English, but she makes passable mince pies too. Thank God – imagine having curry for Christmas, my dear!"

Karen Roberts The Flower Boy  1999