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Remote Nationalism Stories - the NRI Bhakt vs Trump Bhakt

Remote nationalism by NRIs comes in various forms. The extent/extremism in nationalism depends on many factors. The NRIs who live in US/ UK/Europe and pursue a path to citizenship of those countries differ from that of the NRIs who for instance live in Middle East and such countries where the NRIs have to return to India at some point. Shall discuss more about this later, for now the focus is on the Trump effect. The next presidential hopeful of the USA, Trump, has been calling for immigrants especially illegal immigrants to leave the country, not very different from our own folks asking Bangladeshis to be deported or asking south Indians/Biharis to leave Mumbai. Trumpeters ( the Sanghi version of America aka white trash), have been targeting brown skinned people, Indians, Mexicans, Bangladeshis etc; the Trump inspired white supremacists do not discriminate. They target browns mostly verbally, but there have been some physical assaults as well. To set the record straight the targeting here has not reached a level of lynching as there is law and order system in this country that prevents mobocracy. But basically the Trump bhakts don’t care if you are a different kind of Bhakht in a different country, you are just “brown vermin”. Here is an interesting conversation between a Bhakht and Trump Bhakt that happened recently. One Bhakt was talking to a Trumpeter (a more sophisticated one in this case) about the many virtues of Bharat - democracy, peace, typical pitch on culture, the few Chinese people who learn Sanskrit, blah blah blah… The Trump Bhakt listened for a few minutes and asked this question “IF ALL THAT YOU SAY ABOUT INDIA IS TRUE, WHY ARE YOU LIVING HERE IN THE US AND NOT IN INDIA? Suddenly the NRI Bhakt  living in the US who funds activities and organizations that advocate the us vs “THEM” arguments  to promote lynching of minorities in India, who funds the burning of lower caste people in India, who wants beef eaters to be sent to Pakistan, suddenly became the “THEM” in the United States of America... The Trumpeter was using the very argument that the NRI bhakt is very familiar with, but this time the Bhakt happened to be at the receiving end. Ironic that the very Bhakts who promote anti minority feelings in India ARE the minority here, are being asked by a different set of Bhakts, (the Trump Bhakts) to leave US. KARMA???   Interestingly Trumps line- Make America great again, sounds familiar? For more on Trump rhetoric-  https://www.donaldjtrump.com/   For more sane perspectives- http://www.netamaker.com/zing.php

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