origination in the term 'desi'- a colloquial descriptive of a person from india, the desh,
the motherland,
desication/desification refers to the
progressive acquisition of indian cultural traits by non-indians and especially
white people.
this indianising of an
individual or a culture is exemplified when a person becomes adept at eating with their hands (and
intensifies when they can eat rice with their hands), when their spice tolerance levels reach impressive levels (impressive even to desis), when they know and can recount the names of various dishes and the different spice combinations in each and finally concretises when a movie scene with
dancing in the rain invokes the use of the fast forward button.
"joans desication/desification is almost complete. she knows how to eat rice with her hands and she can eat spicy food now"