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Re: Understanding the US - Again

Posted: 20 Sep 2025 23:40
by chetak
Vayutuvan wrote: 20 Sep 2025 23:33
chetak wrote: 20 Sep 2025 14:30 is the sort of stuff trump puts out on twitter

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In this instance he is not wrong though. I would not shed even a single tear for Omar. She should be expelled from Congress; not for "criticizing Charlie" but other stuff she said like her allegiance to Somalia and calling Somalia is better the the US. Which US she is living in?!!!

Vayutuvan ji,

I was never a fan of these creepy crawlies, especially not this venomous jihadi

certainly, she needs to be taught an exemplary lesson, and one that includes deportation, as an example and warning to other jihadis

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Posted: 20 Sep 2025 23:50
by Vayutuvan
A_Gupta wrote: 20 Sep 2025 21:58 The Print:
A social contract protected Indians abroad as the ‘model minority’: Why it’s tearing now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v8_73QCmEY
...
For decades, Indians were the good immigrants who kept their heads down and followed the unwritten rules of assimilation(1). Somewhere over the last year though that vision has soured. 20 minutes on any social media platform will confirm the bitterness with which Indians are viewed. Right-wing accounts take immense pride in scapegoating a population that were the darlings of Silicon Valley until last year.

Favorability toward India has declined across 15 of 24 countries surveyed with particularly sharp drops in traditional allies like Canada and Australia (2)
...
Earlier this year, a Canadian woman posted about a loud and disruptive Indian wedding that had been going on all night. (3) The caption accompanying her post said, "Everyone will despise the Indians given enough time."

The worst thing you could once have said about Indians was that they followed the rules of a foreign country, but not their own. That seems like an antiquated memory. Now drunk on the Kool-Aid of India's imminent Vishwaguru status, we are convinced that our obnoxious behavior will be accepted wherever we go. (4)

... Now we are watching a new generation of Indians squander away that respect. As we go viral for our brashness every other week, entire communities pay the price for individual arrogance. (5)
(1) Majority of us never followed nor or we following now. Look at the Indian only neighborhoods in Dallas, NJ, etc. Locally we have a group of people who want to set up a community for older people and make HOA rules such that non-hindus are excluded. Majority of the old timers married Indians only. Even those meat eating Indians in the US. Those who married non-Indian origin, very few have married an AA or hispanic.

(2) Canada and Australia are traditional allies? That the print reporter seems to be so totally ill-informed about the world or living in Lutyens la la land. Maybe a progeny of some babooze.

(3) That is true. That is happening in India and they are bringing "Sangeet" BS to the US also. India got punjabified/Gulteed. Gults (I am one so I can say that word) are bringing their ostentatiousness to the US. They are also doing "destination wedding" BS.

(4) Yes. True. But this reporter seems to be placing this at the feet of Modi ji. What can we expect from the Print anyway?!!!

(5) This is the only sensible thing in that video transcript.

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Posted: 20 Sep 2025 23:58
by drnayar
Vayutuvan wrote: 20 Sep 2025 23:50
A_Gupta wrote: 20 Sep 2025 21:58 The Print:
A social contract protected Indians abroad as the ‘model minority’: Why it’s tearing now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v8_73QCmEY

I wonder if someone can look back in the 10-15 years when China was the darling of the west and till it was not .. pretty sure this replicates the western behaviour towards a rising power.

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Re: Understanding the US - Again

Posted: 21 Sep 2025 00:30
by Vayutuvan
drnayar wrote: 20 Sep 2025 23:58
Vayutuvan wrote: 20 Sep 2025 23:50
I wonder if someone can look back in the 10-15 years when China was the darling of the west and till it was not .. pretty sure this replicates the western behaviour towards a rising power.

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100%. Chinese were arrogant at that time, especially the kids ABCs. Not adult Chinese from PRC/ROC in my PhD batch. Singaporeans though were arrogant as well. Others were all well behaved; South Americans, Europeans, SoKo, Japanese, Canadians, Mexicans, Latin americas folk, Africans and AAs. But then it is an academic setting.

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Posted: 21 Sep 2025 09:01
by uddu
https://x.com/MattooShashank/status/1969516496855384187
@MattooShashank
Breaking: Donald Trump threatens the Taliban, demands Bagram Air Base back
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Re: Understanding the US - Again

Posted: 21 Sep 2025 09:40
by Rudradev
uddu wrote: 21 Sep 2025 09:01 https://x.com/MattooShashank/status/1969516496855384187
@MattooShashank
Breaking: Donald Trump threatens the Taliban, demands Bagram Air Base back
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Good. Very good. He should order 100,000 American troops back in to Afghanistan and show 'em.

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Posted: 21 Sep 2025 09:43
by A_Gupta
Better yet, Trump should order 100,000 Pakistani troops into Afghanistan. :)

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Posted: 21 Sep 2025 10:10
by saip
I thought Bagram was built by the USSR. Even Ukraine has dibs on it.

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Posted: 21 Sep 2025 10:19
by uddu
The U.S is siding with Cyprus against Turkey. India's stance aligns with that of U.S in this regard.
https://x.com/MOSSADil/status/1969511845318049893
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BREAKING: Turkey Panics as Cyprus arms itself with Israel’s Barak MX air defense, backed by Washington.

• Ankara warns of “dangerous consequences.”
• Cyprus retiring its old Russian BUK-M1 systems — replacing them with Israeli tech.
• Israel-Cyprus defense ties grow stronger, backed by Washington.

Turkey has 320 tanks, 650 APCs, and a drone base in occupied North Cyprus, but Israel’s defense industry is rewriting the rules.

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Re: Understanding the US - Again

Posted: 21 Sep 2025 10:21
by uddu
A_Gupta wrote: 21 Sep 2025 09:43 Better yet, Trump should order 100,000 Pakistani troops into Afghanistan. :)
That seems to be the plan. Rent an Army for Yemen and Afghanistan.

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Posted: 21 Sep 2025 10:34
by uddu