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Indians erect banners, pray for Kamala Harris to win U.S. election
Reuters ^ | 08 18 2020 | Staff

Posted on 08/18/2020 5:21:53 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

PAINGANADU, INDIA (Reuters) - Indians in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, which U.S. vice president hopeful Kamala Harris visited as a kid, erected banners, held special prayers and wished her success.

Villagers in Painganadu, Harris’ ancestral village, put up banners of Harris. Harris’ mother, who migrated to the United States to study, traces her roots to this non-descript hamlet in eastern Tamil Nadu.

“They (Kamala Harris) have gone to the level of contesting for a vice-presidential candidate in America. Naturally, the villagers are very happy,” Ramanan, a trustee at a local temple, told Reuters Television.

Harris, born to an Indian mother and a Jamaican father who both immigrated to the United States to study, made history last week when U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden picked her as his vice president.

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To: Lurkinanloomin

I’m a long time freeper fighting against people who distort the Constitution.


61 posted on 08/18/2020 10:47:42 PM PDT by mlo
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To: dp0622; fieldmarshaldj
so sitting in front of indians and muslims and eating steak and a pork chop will be a twofer

India is 81%, 14% Muslim and 3% Christian - and there are other religions (Judaism since 500 BC, then Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, animism etc.)

For the 38 million Indian Christians, you're not going to offend anyone by eating a steak or pork chop - they might join you

And even in Tamil Nadu - the nation Kamala's mother was from - that is a separate nation (India is a union of 28 different nations) with a 2500 year old written language and that long history as a separate cultural entity. In Tamil nadu they eat beef, so a steak isn't going to offend most Hindus either

62 posted on 08/19/2020 12:02:59 AM PDT by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

It’s one friggin’ tiny village in India. Reuters is pathetic, with their title suggesting that maybe all 1 billion plus Indians support Harris.


63 posted on 08/19/2020 12:08:54 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The Constitution guarantees the States protection against insurrection. Act now, Mr. President!)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Nuclear! LOL


64 posted on 08/19/2020 12:16:14 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
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To: LeoWindhorse

Kamala Harris is a native born.

So is Bobby Jindal

So is Nikki Haley

Kamala’s mother came on a student visa in 1960 and Kamala was born in 1964 in the USA to legal residents so jus soli, she is a native born as per the constitution.


65 posted on 08/19/2020 12:33:55 AM PDT by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: LeoWindhorse

By any reckoning, her father has only partly African blood. By looks alone he definitely has an admixture of European (Irish, Spanish, English) and since he is Jamaican, so quite definitely also native American, possibly Indian and Chinese. Kamala is not African-American. Her "African" heritage would be, at best, 25% of her heritage.

66 posted on 08/19/2020 12:36:19 AM PDT by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

“Ananthapadmanaba ramanathaswamy” is a Tamil name.

The Tamil language belongs to a different family (the Dravidian family) from Indo-European languages.

Of course in each nation in India they can pronounce words and names of that area.

Can you pronounce Laquanda (well, I can’t) or Shanique or the various Siobhan, Katrine, Katrin, Cathryn, Catherine, Catrin, etc. in the way the holder pronounces it always?


67 posted on 08/19/2020 1:35:04 AM PDT by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Exactly - one frigging village in a country of 1 billion with myriad different nations.


68 posted on 08/19/2020 1:37:23 AM PDT by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: Cronos

Ever been to India?
I have.....it’s a different world.
Does India allow U.S.citizens to live there? No. Let alone home political office or command political power over Indians . Why to we? It’s nuts


69 posted on 08/19/2020 2:13:13 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: LeoWindhorse

Been to India a few times - first in the early 90s, then in the late 90s, then 2008-2009

Yes, it allows US citizens to live there

As to home political office - yes, an American born to American parents (lets say of pure Irish descent) CAN become the Prime Minister of India. They just need to be over 35 and to be a citizen of India — note that India does not recognize dual citizenship.


70 posted on 08/19/2020 4:23:24 AM PDT by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: Cronos

The Constitution says natural born citizen, not native.

The children of foreigners are themselves born foreigners, even if awarded US citizenship.
No one with multiple citizenships is naturally an American


71 posted on 08/19/2020 6:16:34 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

She was born with American citizenship. Not Indian (as India doesn’t allow dual citizenship) - I don’t know about Jamaican.


72 posted on 08/19/2020 7:00:41 AM PDT by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
"No one with multiple citizenships is naturally an American"

That's an opinion about a feeling. Not the law.

73 posted on 08/19/2020 9:12:50 AM PDT by mlo
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To: mlo

It’s commonsense, unlike advocating that Chinese tourist babies and Anwar al-Awlaki’s kids born in Yemen to one citizen parent are naturally Americans.


74 posted on 08/19/2020 11:47:47 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
"It’s commonsense..."

It might be to you, but it is not the law. You should learn to distinguish those things.

"...unlike advocating that Chinese tourist babies and Anwar al-Awlaki’s kids born in Yemen to one citizen parent are naturally Americans."

If you are referring to me, I'm not advocating that the law should be anything. I'm explaining what it is. The conceptual difference there seems to be the problem with a lot of birthers.

75 posted on 08/19/2020 12:33:55 PM PDT by mlo
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