As good a forum as any to air some stale laundry out. First-gen Hyderabadi, I’ve been in the US for 30+ years - firmly entrenched upper-class kids, pets, obligatory Audi, nice lawn, etc. Smoothly professional in the work-place as a senior executive, and equally ‘desi’ at home and with high net-worth circle of…

It is but its the trash that is familiar and predictable. Its like watching a sitcom, there aren’t many twists and everything ends up right wrapped up in a perfect package. In this case it is sappy love stories, rhythmic music and a brightly colored package.

Do they really think that they’re not next if his supporters get their way? Or even that his supporters don’t see them as Muslims as well?

Any kind of nationalism is. There are no worse scoundrels than nationalists.

Faith (especially the Hindu-Muslim divide) is the fault line of India in many ways that race (and especially the Black-White divide) is in the U.S. For the older generation, it is very personal and something they grew up with.

Is that what they tell you in the military or are you basing this on other reading?

Warning to those Indian-Americans who support Trump because of an emotional reaction to Islam (don’t want to characterize it as hatred because it may not be, it may be fear, or something else) - his white supporters don’t care if you are Hindu. They see that you are brown and will assume you are Muslim and take out…

You are a Kinja wet dream. I can guarantee that at least a handful of commenters had a spontaneous orgasm of tolerance and inclusivity at the idea of an Egyptian/Mexican American Muslim.

As an Asian American myself, I can attest to there being an initial ‘love-affair’ with right-wing politics when you first come to America. Like you love the country you’re in so much and you believe all the propaganda about it being the land of opportunity, you automatically align yourself with the most patriotic…

I’m saying this as a Hindu, Indian-American. I’m really not surprised by the fact that Hindu Republicans exist even though the GOP is mostly geared towards Christian Conservatives. The first generation Hindu-Americans are people who own businesses and are closed minded for the most part. India does not look favorably…

I was using a dry cleaning joint operated by an Indian-American dude. Early on in the election cycle, he kept trying to tell me how great Trump was, and how business owners like him were all voting for Trump.

And... India’s perfect. Got it.

Pictured: the new symbol of the GOP:

Agreed, brother. Glad to hear you were welcomed with open arms, and let’s hope the positive change in said mentalities continues. I do think it’s much better here in the U.S. than in India (with regard to anti-Islam sentiment amongst Indians).

I wonder if they realize that Trump and his supporters make absolutely no distinction between South Asians and Middle Easterners - and much less between Hindus, Sikhs, and Muslims, for that matter.

Great post, I posted above about me and my wife’s relationship (her an Indian American Hindu and me an Egyptian/Mexican American Muslim) but my experience has been great overall. Even though we realized that there was that underlying sentiment it ended up being the opposite. At many family and friend events everyone…

Great piece. I’m Japanese American, and I’ve encountered a few Japanese American Trump supporters among the overwhelming number who can’t stomach the guy. There’s an astonishing degree of conscious denial of history among the Japanese American Trump supporters. They know the history of the World War II camps, they…

Hindu nationalism is one hell of a drug. This is exceptional, Giri.

As a person of Indian (Gujarati/Parsi) heritage let me say fuck that criminal Modi and fuck these xenophobs. Giri, thanks for holding it down with these racist pricks. What they’re saying there is the same tripe people say at temples and in jaded, conservative homes throughout the country. Made up fables of how…

It makes me feel better as a white person to see other races joining in this exercise in mass stupidity.