Amitav Acharya

So I think the main thing is that the political climate in the U.S.

has narrowed populism.

There's an overall anti-immigrant sentiment.

I mean, a few years ago, during the COVID, it was the Chinese.

Chinese brought COVID into the U.S.

And now Indians are taking jobs away from Americans.

So this is very political.

Okay, without going into specific numbers here, but I can only talk about my own observation.

I think I've seen very successful Democrats of Indian origin and very successful Republicans of Indian origin.

But what actually strikes me, I have seen more Indian Americans or Americans of Indian origin, meaning they might have been born in United States, but they have ethnically Indian.

They have become more conservative.

If you want me to speculate, I think I would say that, you know, it's always a bit easier to, because the American public has turned, except in the liberals, eastern states and California.

If you're living in the deep south, and there are a lot of Indians there, you know, you feel more at home identifying with the Republican narrative, the conservative narrative.

And also politicians in the U.S.

being hardline, conservative, saying, you know, very anti-immigrant things, identifying with a very conservative agenda probably gets you more assimilated.

Well, Europe is a much more older society, right?

It's a much older civilization than the United States.

The United States still is a migrant community with due respect to the Native Americans.

It's a new society.

So it doesn't have the same traditions, religions, and same monuments, for example, that you can go back and say, oh, this is the Christian emperor, so-and-so did.