I don't want to be offensive, but I feel like this is a topic I wanted to discuss. I've gotten into or seen enough debates that I've seen Indian friends becoming increasingly defensive or prefer to stay quiet in situations where I've felt that there's a clear right or wrong. And when presented with evidence about clear wrongs that Trump has done that clearly conflict with culture values (you can find many examples with a simple search) , I seem to get answers that sound like "but look at what he did in this small niche area" as if that's supposed to make me feel better. As someone who has been targetted by Trump's comments and lives in a world where it's hard to have a feeling of safety, it makes me sad that some people can defend his actions or even secretly support him.
Outside of leftist liberal hellhole cities (I live in one too), most people tend to be moderate and on the right.
Way to generalize an entire country by having a couple of conversations with 2-3 people 👏
I was recently talking politics with a market researcher from India and he said that many Indians like Trump solely because of the actions the administration has taken against Pakistan.
^This. Also my older relatives who were themselves immigrants and are citizens now like Trump because of his tough stance on immigrants. It's crazy.
To date, I've never heard one negative thing about immigrants from trump. Illegal immigrants, yes. And no thanks, I don't need anymore of my tax money going to scummy illegal immigrants.
Yea coz Indians are mostly Conservatives. Also, due to their waybof upbringings, they are heavily against Socialism.
Pls mention how many cities in India you’ve lived in, for how many years.
India is way more socialist than the US. Also not sure how being against socialism would make you support Trump...
I think Indians are very familiar with concepts like politician being extraordinarily corrupt, politicians unearthing BS from nowhere to prove a point, politicians supplying fake data, going overboard in helping the wealthy etc. These are a "given" in politics worldwide, but a lot of Americans are getting introduced to these concepts because Trump does it in a explicit manner. Americans probably didn't care earlier because the previous presidents were sophisticated about corruption. If you remove those aspects to Trump, literally every single thing he's done has been pro America. Be it the hardline stance on the southern border, giving a hard time to China, evaculating troops from a multi decade foreign fight, telling Europeans they no longer have free protection etc.
Good point, and wasn’t Obama’s stance to provide transparency that was ultimately obfuscated as a marketing campaign?
Obama wasn't a racist. This has more to do with human decency.
It is illegal immigration being presented as humanitarian cause. Whereas huge number of legal immigrants don't have any recourse. Case in example, DACA
Indians typically are right leaning. If Indians were whiter they would be a Republican vote bank. They (we) are homophobic, xenophobic, against same sex marriage, against transgender equality rights, against equal housing opportunities regardless of colornor religion, pro lower taxes.. and so on. It's easy for them to be Trump supporte or be indifferent to Trump. It's not like he's fucking up India.. he's fucking up USA, giving China a hard time and publicly rebukes Pakistan.. while keeping taxes low so that there's more left to send back home. Not like Obama fixed green card backlog.. neither will Biden or Warren fix it.. so yes.. Trump is good. Not my problem if your president acts like a mob boss.
This is true and voted
Watch “howdy modi”
Just curious, in what way have you been targeted by trump? In a big way a lot of indians feel targeted by dems due to their lack of support towards legal immigration, but overwhelming support for illegal immigration.. like dick durbin. But I feel the larger chunk of ppl support modi but not trump.
There is a legal system, you just have a longer line because your country is overproducing (your problem not USA'S fault), and the line is clogged because many of your countrymen game the system (case in point the long lines in EB1, clogged by "extraordinary managerial talent" produced by Wipro and junk like that). Stay in line and wait for your turn.
I don't want to give my identity away, but you should have no trouble finding a plethora of discriminatory examples.
As someone said above, Indians support Trump because they feel that Trump is "defending" the USA from "sh1t" immigrants, and he appears tough towards Muslims, in particular. Alot of Indians are very anti-muslim, in particular, anti-Pakistan. But India has been less successful in its narrative against the Pakistan in the past. And suddenly now, they see the leader of the most powerful nation waging a "war" against this "common enemy", so they jump on his bandwagon like crazy. At the same time, they hold marches in the name of "end discrimination against us because we are Indians and we deserve GCs more than anyone else on this planet" (s386). Shameless.
This is awful. But why is there so much hate towards Pakistan? This is the second comment in the thread that brought this up. Also, how does that justify supporting Trump's other actions that are homophobic, racial bias against other minorities? https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/588067/
Only because it is a failed terrorist state lol
Yup. Have noticed this too with many of my older relatives. Not so much with firends from my own generation.
Yes. True. Here are the top two reasons. 1. Immigration. 2. Capitalism. Most Indians you talk to are fucking tired of this unending wait in greencard lines when they have filled every form and stand in every fucking line to enter this country legally and pay their due taxes. While, folks jumping over the fence come here and treated as an entitled lot with the Democratic party behind them. Trump gives a feeling of fairness, with his rhetoric about point based immigration system. 2) most Indians and their parents are in the upper middle class segment here in the US. They don't want a Sanders or a Warren fuck up with their bank balance.
So selfish reasons?