Stephen Colbert had a hard-hitting segment last night over Republicans’ questioning of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor and the omphaloskepsis of white men in America. It’s Okay If You’re the Majority is a blind spot for every majority group, no less middle-class northie Hindus in India.

Colbert drew a prosaic analogy to light skin-colored band-aids and crayons. One of the nicest things about living in Bombay was rediscovering that clothing proportions and palettes, flavors, vegetarian menus, labels, greeting cards, were designed with you in mind. Like the Apple bonus, it was like two thousand years of brown Steve Jobses had optimized your environment. I’d imagine it’s hard getting a Yorkshire pudding in Patna.

It was obvious, of course, when you match culture to culture. For once, the bunker mentality, the fossilizing of a culture overseas, paid off.