Posted on 06/02/2012 10:00:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Indians are relatively new immigrants to the U.S. The earlier immigrants had to start at the bottom and worked hard to get ahead, through education and growing a business e.t.c. A lot of the newer immigrants have come through the I.T. wave, and got good jobs when they landed here, and started out well off. They never had to work up the chain like the earlier group. I think the earlier group got to appreciate and understand the country a bit more.
You are correct with all of the others mentioned, but you should remember that our native American tribes are Semi-autonomous Tribal Nations under the protection of America.
For what it’s worth, Ayn Rand’s books sell more vigorously in India than in any other country besides the United States.
I saw a very interesting article in a British paper. It quoted a study that was looking at the political names people gave their routers. India was full of “blue” routers which surprised me.
I’ll see if I can find it.
Columbus Indians or Vasco de Gama Indians?
A part of that comes from this being the modern world, 180 years ago immigration was more challenging and permanent (not a plane flight, it was one way, bridges were burned), and America was truly wild and dangerous, yet it was already the freest, greatest, most noble place for the brave men and women who could qualify, to be.
Today it is about money, the globe is full of centers of immigration for economic gain, now it is largely about who has the easiest entry rules, and the most free goodies, America and Britain, France, Sweden and other Western nations win in that category of combinations.
I live in NYC where there us a huge Indian community. They are hardworking, and very pro-American. Every person I have met who is of Indian origin, non-Muslim whether MD, business people, cab driver, or the guys who work in a deli, are politically and fiscally conservative, and vote Republicans. They are not fans of socialism or Obama.
This poll sounds like bunk to me. Look at Bobby Jindal and Nikki Haley.
I know lots of 1st gen Asian Indians who are by and large ambitious, not necessarily smart ( but some are) and I have observed the following:
1. They are gullible and naive and they fall for the MSM lies quite frequently. If they see something in the newspaper, on TV, or in the theater, they believe it. For example, show them a Michael Moore movie, and they lap up every minute of it.
2. The 1st gens also are very poorly schooled in traditonal Amercan values and history. The test legal immigrants take to become a citizen is abysmal and laughable, as you might expect.
3. They come from a country of some deprivation and view life as a zero-sum game. They like the free stuff.
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Thanks for posting entropy12. I was worried this was going to be the worst thread ever!
What new immigrants?
Has everyone been led to believe that America is a result of endless, unlimited immigration? Roosevelt did not have an immigration problem in the 1930s and 1940s.
Those immigrant voters of the 1850s and 1900 who were stopped in the 1920s by a change in the law, heading for assimilation that you described, never changed, they never became Republicans, they were never assimilated, they are the democrat base of today.
Nothing changed over the last 150 years, as a group they did not assimilate, they have always remained democrats.
Look at the 2008 election and a 100 year record of the demographics.
Out of every 2000 Americans alive, 8 additional Americans were murdered through abortion whereas out of every 2000 Indians alive, only one additional Indian ended up being aborted. For such a high abortion rate in America, the fact that it has a population about a fourth of India's makes the statistic that much more shameful. It would take stupendously astonishing churzpah for someone belonging to a population producing these shameful statiatics to be on a high horse regarding this very issue.
What premise and what real reason?
Sheer ignorance.....and when they asked for more money, he told them he’d have more leverage after the election.
I couldn’t agree with you more, but be prepared to get trashed as a “racist” even by so called “conservatives”(open border rinos) for suggesting such a thing.
Yep
Back in 96 I was in Glacier National Park hiking and ate in a restaurant near Browning several times and engaged the woman who owned the eatery in political conversation —She was also a conservative
She said the white ranchers etc in the area absolutely hated LBJ because of what his GREAT SOCIETY did to the Indians in the area
No one in the United States.........Kenya??????
The stat is probably excessive, but the real numbers are still bad.
Why? Indians associate Republicans with a stereotype: rural, white, ill-educated, anti-science fundamentalist Christians, with no interest in anyone else’s view of politics. The party of Sarah Palin is not going to attract many Indian Americans.
Christian converts like Jindal and Haley don’t do much to undermine that. Romney might actually. Indians appreciate that Mormons have little common cause with evangelicals or fundamentalists, and founding Bain Capital off two Harvard degrees is precisely the kind of thing Indians appreciate.
I could say the same for most of the Vietnamese and Chinese people I know, yet they mostly vote straight Democratic Party line. I could say that for most Hispanics I know, but 70% of them are a lock to vote Democrat.
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