Deep dive into the hindu vote in northern Virginia

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Anonymous wrote:"an overwhelming majority of them voted for Youngkin, the GOP candidate. “Women especially,” he said, because they were worried about their children’s education." <--- This was a one time thing b/c of Covid education.

NO, IT WAS BECAUSE OF THE VMPI AND BECAUSE MATH IS GETTING CANCELLED IN MOST OF AMERICA. NO ONE WANTS THEIR KIDS DOING CALCULUS ON THE WEEKENDS BECAUSE THE SCHOOL DOESNT OFFER IT ANYMORE-WHICH IS BECOMING REALITY IN MANY US STATES.

Which “many” states?

VPMI always included a path for calculus.

PP used all caps, that means that they are correctly stating fact and not a raving lunatic.

It was accidental. CA is trying to not offer Algebra 2 anymore in HS. It is a trickle down effect, and the changes are slow but they happen. Regarding VMPI, the original version had it where you would basically be going from algebra 2 to calculus, you can do it but can you be successful?

So that would be ZERO states if I’m doing the math correctly?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a child of Indian immigrants. Everyone when knew voted Democrat, because really the Republicans didn't want anything to do with us. We worked hard but could still see other people around us had it worse (never had a chance) and most Republicans didn't care

It doesn't surprise me that a lot of people of Indian descent vote Republican now. I think we are considered white-adjacent and can have a seat at the table along with those of Latino descent (a very diverse group.)

I DO love this country. Which is why I can't support anything the GOP is doing. These are not the behaviors of a democratic nation.

So you don't like the progressives? Fine, that's politics. People have been bickering about it for the history of the country. But when the bedrock of the country is being assaulted, I can't vote for any of them, no matter how much it affects me personally.

Do you have kids? Are they in FCPS, LCPS, or MCPS? If so, how’s that going?

Sorry I have to look at the larger issue of the country they are growing up in. It's the cancer I'm worried about. I'll get the warts treated later. I think a generation will pass before I consider voting GOP again.

And I see the progressives as a cancer. They are insidiously eating away at the very values that have made the US such an awesome country. I don’t see the GOP doing that, so they have my vote for the foreseeable future.

The only cancer is you. Both parties display shockingly undemocratic values and tactics and to pretend otherwise is disgusting.

One much more so than the other. You know, the whole Big Lie Insurrection thingy.

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And I see the progressives as a cancer. They are insidiously eating away at the very values that have made the US such an awesome country. I don’t see the GOP doing that, so they have my vote for the foreseeable future.

Then you're not looking. There's one party that supported, and continues to support, a violent overthrow of the results of the 2020 election, and I'll tell you who it is: the GOP.

Exactly

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Anonymous wrote:Overall Indians and Asians such as myself are purely republican with hard work, business owning, wealth etc. the issue is that the marketing of democrats paint republicans as racist, which is falling apart. Us asians don't want to give handouts and our hard-earned lifestyle and money to the losers, that's a white liberal thing. We also don't care about slavery or social programs that's all white stuff we had nothing to do with.

Who are “the losers”?

Still would love to hear more about this comment.

Very enlightening.

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Anonymous wrote:It's funny that none of the people interviewed choose to live in localities governed by the conservative ideals they espouse.

My neighbors in Silver Spring just recently went house hunting in Texas! They are both in tech and can telework. They are ready to hightail it out of MoCo and I cannot blame them. Both are not Hindu, because one spouse if from Sri Lanka, but just an example.

When driving there, I wonder if they had the same experience I did. Pulling off the highway and seeing two motels, one with a big sign: AMERICAN OWNED. Stopping at the other and it's run by an Indian family.

That's a big problem in low key tourist places, particularly in the south where Indians have been buying run down motels. I laugh at the motel in my home town that was built by a German American family in the 1950s and was beautifully run and maintained with a great restaurant. It was sold to an Indian and the last time we tried to stay there, I couldn't stomach the smell of cheap cleaning products and the condition had deteriorated in one year. The nice restaurant is a now a seedy bar with trucks drivers and prostitutes. I laughed when we saw the white Mercedes SUV in the manager's parking space with the vanity plates "Shephali" No money is going into the motel.

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Anonymous wrote:Overall Indians and Asians such as myself are purely republican with hard work, business owning, wealth etc. the issue is that the marketing of democrats paint republicans as racist, which is falling apart. Us asians don't want to give handouts and our hard-earned lifestyle and money to the losers, that's a white liberal thing. We also don't care about slavery or social programs that's all white stuff we had nothing to do with.

Who are “the losers”?

Still would love to hear more about this comment.

Very enlightening.

DP Seriously, you don't know who the losers are in the United States?

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Anonymous wrote:Overall Indians and Asians such as myself are purely republican with hard work, business owning, wealth etc. the issue is that the marketing of democrats paint republicans as racist, which is falling apart. Us asians don't want to give handouts and our hard-earned lifestyle and money to the losers, that's a white liberal thing. We also don't care about slavery or social programs that's all white stuff we had nothing to do with.

Who are “the losers”?

Still would love to hear more about this comment.

Very enlightening.

No one cares if you feel enlightened. We are talking about how ppl are voting and this is how real ppl feel.

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Anonymous wrote:It's funny that none of the people interviewed choose to live in localities governed by the conservative ideals they espouse.

My neighbors in Silver Spring just recently went house hunting in Texas! They are both in tech and can telework. They are ready to hightail it out of MoCo and I cannot blame them. Both are not Hindu, because one spouse if from Sri Lanka, but just an example.

When driving there, I wonder if they had the same experience I did. Pulling off the highway and seeing two motels, one with a big sign: AMERICAN OWNED. Stopping at the other and it's run by an Indian family.

Not sure what your point is here. I see nothing wrong with a hotel advertising that they are American Owned. The Indian owned motel can advertise that is is Indian Owned to attract Indian tourists who would prefer that. Or Indian-American owned if they care to do so.

The bubble tea place by me advertises in Chinese to presumably attract Chinese customers. GWU had a list of Black Owned businesses on its website for people to support.
https://diversity.gwu.edu/black-owned-businesses-dmv-area

Do you have any issue with those? Why the hypocrisy and criticism towards an American Owned sign?

Oh, and that website, with the ‘inclusive’ email address of [e-mail] has zero mention of Asians. As if we just don’t even exist. As if there have been no incidences of anti-Asian violence in US history.

The website includes Black-owned business and anti-Semitic resources and LGBQT links. Not a single mention of Asians.

This isn’t unusual, FWIW. So I’ll take the PPs assertions that the Progressives are somehow less racist with a very large grain of basmati rice.

that's because Asians are too smart to have to go to a crap school like GW

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's funny that none of the people interviewed choose to live in localities governed by the conservative ideals they espouse.

My neighbors in Silver Spring just recently went house hunting in Texas! They are both in tech and can telework. They are ready to hightail it out of MoCo and I cannot blame them. Both are not Hindu, because one spouse if from Sri Lanka, but just an example.

When driving there, I wonder if they had the same experience I did. Pulling off the highway and seeing two motels, one with a big sign: AMERICAN OWNED. Stopping at the other and it's run by an Indian family.

That's a big problem in low key tourist places, particularly in the south where Indians have been buying run down motels. I laugh at the motel in my home town that was built by a German American family in the 1950s and was beautifully run and maintained with a great restaurant. It was sold to an Indian and the last time we tried to stay there, I couldn't stomach the smell of cheap cleaning products and the condition had deteriorated in one year. The nice restaurant is a now a seedy bar with trucks drivers and prostitutes. I laughed when we saw the white Mercedes SUV in the manager's parking space with the vanity plates "Shephali" No money is going into the motel.

Sounds like a trend in a lot of towns: things would be shut down if not for immigrants who moved in.

[Anonymous]

There’s a lot of nastiness on this thread but the underlying story seems to be a common one—that there are a lot of people that don’t easily find a home in either party. Some of them are fiscal conservatives but socially tolerant. The old Republican Party was a big tent with lots of room for such people. I think it would be great for America if those people could reclaim the Republican Party. It’s really sad that the only alternstive to the Democratic Party is a party that defends the confederacy, peddles lies about an election, doesn’t want any woman to be able to chose an abortion, refuses any reasonable restrictions on gun ownership, denies basic facts of science like human controlled science change, and drives out people like Flake and Cbeney who dare to challenge any of this.
My dad was a Republican through 7 decades and he is pretty disgusted with his party.
We really need the old Republican Party (or a different née Republican Party) back again.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's funny that none of the people interviewed choose to live in localities governed by the conservative ideals they espouse.

My neighbors in Silver Spring just recently went house hunting in Texas! They are both in tech and can telework. They are ready to hightail it out of MoCo and I cannot blame them. Both are not Hindu, because one spouse if from Sri Lanka, but just an example.

When driving there, I wonder if they had the same experience I did. Pulling off the highway and seeing two motels, one with a big sign: AMERICAN OWNED. Stopping at the other and it's run by an Indian family.

Not sure what your point is here. I see nothing wrong with a hotel advertising that they are American Owned. The Indian owned motel can advertise that is is Indian Owned to attract Indian tourists who would prefer that. Or Indian-American owned if they care to do so.

The bubble tea place by me advertises in Chinese to presumably attract Chinese customers. GWU had a list of Black Owned businesses on its website for people to support.
https://diversity.gwu.edu/black-owned-businesses-dmv-area

Do you have any issue with those? Why the hypocrisy and criticism towards an American Owned sign?

Oh, and that website, with the ‘inclusive’ email address of [e-mail] has zero mention of Asians. As if we just don’t even exist. As if there have been no incidences of anti-Asian violence in US history.

The website includes Black-owned business and anti-Semitic resources and LGBQT links. Not a single mention of Asians.

This isn’t unusual, FWIW. So I’ll take the PPs assertions that the Progressives are somehow less racist with a very large grain of basmati rice.

You didn’t look very hard…
https://mssc.gwu.edu/asian-and-pacific-islander-community

Yeah, I mean, that’s it exactly.

The Asians are not counted by the Office of Diversity and Equity. Clearly Asians don’t belong there. Not ‘diverse’ enough, I guess.

But they want the money from overseas Asians, so the make sure they are mentioned on the Multicultural Students Center.

Basically Asians don’t count as ‘diverse’ enough in the minds of progressives. There are lawsuits about it. And it well known by Asian parents here in the US that an Asian kid has to work that much harder and score that much higher compared to an AA or Latino student to get into her college of choice.

When my agency had a diversity audit (yep, there was such a ridiculous thing), they only counted AA, Latino and Native American employees as ‘diverse’ enough. So, it sure feels like progressives are actively trying to exclude Asians from the label of ‘diversity’.

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Yeah, I wonder if colleges and universities prioritize overseas Asians over Asian-Americans during the application process because they pay more $$$ and they’re more “diverse” than a student who has grown up in America. It’s just another way that Asian-Americans are discriminated against.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Overall Indians and Asians such as myself are purely republican with hard work, business owning, wealth etc. the issue is that the marketing of democrats paint republicans as racist, which is falling apart. Us asians don't want to give handouts and our hard-earned lifestyle and money to the losers, that's a white liberal thing. We also don't care about slavery or social programs that's all white stuff we had nothing to do with.

Who are “the losers”?

Still would love to hear more about this comment.

Very enlightening.

DP Seriously, you don't know who the losers are in the United States?

No. Please tell me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's funny that none of the people interviewed choose to live in localities governed by the conservative ideals they espouse.

My neighbors in Silver Spring just recently went house hunting in Texas! They are both in tech and can telework. They are ready to hightail it out of MoCo and I cannot blame them. Both are not Hindu, because one spouse if from Sri Lanka, but just an example.

When driving there, I wonder if they had the same experience I did. Pulling off the highway and seeing two motels, one with a big sign: AMERICAN OWNED. Stopping at the other and it's run by an Indian family.

Not sure what your point is here. I see nothing wrong with a hotel advertising that they are American Owned. The Indian owned motel can advertise that is is Indian Owned to attract Indian tourists who would prefer that. Or Indian-American owned if they care to do so.

The bubble tea place by me advertises in Chinese to presumably attract Chinese customers. GWU had a list of Black Owned businesses on its website for people to support.
https://diversity.gwu.edu/black-owned-businesses-dmv-area

Do you have any issue with those? Why the hypocrisy and criticism towards an American Owned sign?

Oh, and that website, with the ‘inclusive’ email address of [e-mail] has zero mention of Asians. As if we just don’t even exist. As if there have been no incidences of anti-Asian violence in US history.

The website includes Black-owned business and anti-Semitic resources and LGBQT links. Not a single mention of Asians.

This isn’t unusual, FWIW. So I’ll take the PPs assertions that the Progressives are somehow less racist with a very large grain of basmati rice.

You didn’t look very hard…
https://mssc.gwu.edu/asian-and-pacific-islander-community

Yeah, I mean, that’s it exactly.

The Asians are not counted by the Office of Diversity and Equity. Clearly Asians don’t belong there. Not ‘diverse’ enough, I guess.

But they want the money from overseas Asians, so the make sure they are mentioned on the Multicultural Students Center.

Basically Asians don’t count as ‘diverse’ enough in the minds of progressives. There are lawsuits about it. And it well known by Asian parents here in the US that an Asian kid has to work that much harder and score that much higher compared to an AA or Latino student to get into her college of choice.

When my agency had a diversity audit (yep, there was such a ridiculous thing), they only counted AA, Latino and Native American employees as ‘diverse’ enough. So, it sure feels like progressives are actively trying to exclude Asians from the label of ‘diversity’.

Maybe that particular office is trying to reach out to UNDERrepresented groups?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Overall Indians and Asians such as myself are purely republican with hard work, business owning, wealth etc. the issue is that the marketing of democrats paint republicans as racist, which is falling apart. Us asians don't want to give handouts and our hard-earned lifestyle and money to the losers, that's a white liberal thing. We also don't care about slavery or social programs that's all white stuff we had nothing to do with.

Who are “the losers”?

Still would love to hear more about this comment.

Very enlightening.

No one cares if you feel enlightened. We are talking about how ppl are voting and this is how real ppl feel.

Ok. Can that person please explain more about his/her feelings? Who does PP feel are the losers?