>>148977959 (OP)he's a cultural stereotype
if Apu's mom adopted a... *spins the wheel* native New Zealander.. and raised him in india, he'd talk like that, he'd have graduated from technical college, he'd be running a quik-e-mart or driving a cab, he'd be polite and hard-working
meanwhile if apu had been stolen as a baby and raised as Cletus's brother, he'd be a redneck and he'd talk that way. Probably identically to Cletus since that's the same timbre of Azaria's voice. it's not the race involved here.
And that's very important, because a race is something you can't make fun of someone for, since they can't change it. The purpose of mockery and rebuke is to change your ways. "Stop talking like that, talk like this, stop shitting there, put it here" etc