Posted on 06/17/2017 3:48:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
On 26 June, Donald Trump and Narendra Modi will meet in Washington. While the two have spoken at least three times since Trump’s election, this will be their first meeting. Many Hindu nationalists in India and the United States supported Donald Trump’s candidacy, at least in part, because they applauded his anti-Muslim campaign rhetoric and hoped that, if elected, he would adopt harsher policies towards Pakistan and other Muslim states supporting or exporting Islamist violence.
For Hindu nationalists, Trump seemed like an obvious partner for Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party, which has sustained criticism at home and abroad for its divisive rhetoric on Muslims.
In addition, both men are populist leaders who capitalised upon the simmering discontent of their restive millennial voters who clamoured for political change, and both men have made grandiose promises to grow their countries’ economies and make their countries great.
However, the expected bromance is not in evidence. Why?
First, on the campaign trail and since taking office, Trump has barked a consistent anti-immigrant message and has claimed immigrants are “taking American jobs.” (In fact, robots are taking away those American jobs.) This week, he signed an executive order rendering it more difficult for Indians to obtain lucrative H-1 visas for tech jobs in the United States.
Second, Trump’s anti-Muslim vitriol has given a fillip to America’s undiscerning racists who have assaulted non-Muslims of Indian-heritage because they mistook them for Muslims......
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What the hell are they talking about?
Even when Christine is unbalanced, she is Fair.
No kidding
Those two sentences put together directly contradict each other. What the heck is happening in our colleges that the students can’t even think.
Maybe they are being replaced by Indian robots with H1Bs.
Just doing what the Hindu (not what the Urdu)
“There’s nothing a Hindu won’t do.” ~Mike and Molly
Our “indian friends”? That is a load of bull. They are not allies, not friends. They are simply invaders like Mexicans, just a bit better educated.
They are the highest income demographic in the entire country and have been for some time.
And those are American jobs they have taken.
They’re displacing American doctors? Where are the US doctors going?
no kidding. If it’s in the article, I missed it.
There is a lot in Indian culture that the current crop of illiterate masses could learn and benefit from.
If American born individuals improved their skills more via higher professional education, their jobs would not be taken by Indians or any other foreigners. If one spends lot of their time playing video games, drinking beer, smoking pots, and then blames the Indians who bother to study hard and receive degrees in Medicine, Engineering, Sciences, Law & Accounting, is the height of jealousy and hypocrisy.
As for the IT segment, learning computer programming is NOT higher professional education. It is learned in a matter of a few weeks. To become a good doctor, engineer or a lawyer takes many years of hard work. There are 10-15 million computer programmers looking for jobs in India, Eastern Europe and SE Asia, and willing to work cheap. Why does anyone expect to have a high paid protected job in IT which can be learned in a short time?
That is total BS.
Wages are stagnant because of H-1b visa so nobody wants to go into STEM. Get rid of the artificial glut and wages will increase making it worth while.
Programming has been a "new" skill and has, therefore, commanded high salaries - not because it is a high level skill. Scarcity, but no longer.
Compare a programmer's skill level to that of a pharmacist or a chemical engineer. Why are they paid relatively little with much higher skill, training and qualification? And their professions have little tolerance for "bugs"!
I am surprised she left out the low cost Indian satellite launches and space applications.
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