Know what I’m tired of? Furriners with funny names relabeling themselves as things like “Nikki” or “Bobby”, pretending they’re good ol’ native-born suth’nerz, then pulling the ladder up behind them so none of them other evil furriners can get in here and ‘steelz our freedumbs’.
Know anyone like that, Piyush or Nimrata?
Technically known as Boobus Americanus. (h/t H. L. Mencken)
Piyush-Bobby is tired of hyphenated Americans!
You know what I’m tired of? That creepy, angry little man.
But it’s still fine to be a Catholic-American, right?
Send him to India they need another idiot.
Imagine how tired Americans are of this political cartoon and his idiotic breathern in DC. The mind reels
The soft bigotry of low expectations?
Actually, on quite a number of measures of well being, the good ole USA is no where near the top.
Just so you know …
Nikki a name not unknown in India, lots of Indians of both genders have it. It’s quite a bit less used in Pakistan, which is largely Muslim and its orthodox among not just practicing but ‘social’ Muslims to go by their given names, off a fairly narrow selection for each of the many sects (There are LOTS of different Muslim sects, and while polling there shows that by far most Pakistanis self-identify as Muslims, a majority of them believe their own particular sect is resented by other sects and discriminated against. I can’t point to evidence on whether the sense of sect-specific aggrievement is really any differernt than the sense of sect-specific aggrievement among American Christians, but it doesn’t seem to me greatly different. A majority of ALL people EVERYWHERE feel their ‘kind’ are constantly put-upon.)
Strictly speaking, neither is the name Bobby unknown, tho I’ve not seen or heard of it being spelled that way. It might seem unusual to those who’ve never been to the Indian subcontinent or only have limited exposure to the many, many cultures and religious sects there. I had a Muslim colleague here who went by the name “Bobbi”, her nickname from childhood after a relative who lived with her family in Pakistan.
Also, the attacks here on Jindal for his appearance are totally out of line. Yes, he looks and carries himself much like a well-known comedy actor on what was until recently a highly popular TV show, but he’d be neither more nor less of a grifter and retail purveyor of ugly stupid abhorrent retrogressive politics if he looked differently. There’s way more than enough to make fun of in his politics and rhetoric, and no need at all to go after the way he looks. We ALL look weird to other animals; and as a species, we’re as weird as any on the planet.
My experience has been that those who think it is the best country in the world have rarely if ever been out of the country.
In Bobby Jindal’s world, Baskin-Robbins would still sell 21 flavors of ice cream, but they would all be called “vanilla”.